Our visit to the zoo

We went to the zoo yesterday...and it was everything I feared.  These were not a bunch of happy animals. It was an old soviet zoo, and it didn't look like it had been updated since the Stalin years.

The crocodiles had no water, the birds were kept in small dark caves, there was rubbish in most of the cages and the poor bears were running round and round in circles because there was nowhere for them to go. You could even see the ribcage on the lion.

Apparently there is a new state-of-the-art zoo being built, and all I can hope it that out 3 Manats went to speeding the building process along so they can get the animals out of there.

In conclusion, if you want to see some animals, take a detour to Africa before you reach Azerbaijan.