Safari Gondola 2 meters over lion male

The Safari gondola (cableway) at Kolmården Wildlife Park. Without windows, you move slowly over the lion enclosure, the savanha, the scandinavian forests, the highlands and the african wilddogs.

While this looks like a very interesting experience, it appears to be a lot more than 2 meters off the ground.

Well, I haven´t been out with my ruler and checked (understandable) but the audioguide in the speakersystem says it is only 2 meter above the ground.

Maybe it means 2 metres 'in places'

This is the lowest point. If it would go even lower it would be dangerous to sit in the gondola.

As males can have a head/body length of around 2 metres, having something in their exhibit only two metres from the ground means it's not only within reach, but they can grab it and hang on.

This photo clearly shows the cabin much more than two metres off the ground.

That is what I was thinking. Imagine (just imagine, not based on reality!) it manages to get up on the cable-car, either:

1. It can fall to its death and the zoo will receive bad publicity and criticism for having the cable car too low and accessible to the lions

2.(If it can hold on long enough) Be carried into a surrounding exhibit and prey on the animals in it and/or startle them, causing deaths in the deaths to the other animals not only by falling prey but also by heart-attack/stress. This would cause uproar and outrage much like #1.

3. (If it can hold on long enough, highly unlikely but not impossible) Be carried all the way to the terminal and the rest is up to your thinking advices.

I'm not saying that this would happen but it is just a thought, even it is a bit unlikely/stupid.

Well,the pressrelease says 2,5 metres , I don´t know if it´s here or in the Savanha but I thought it was here cause the audioguide said 2 metres.

And, I am sorry for any confusing with the title. But I think we al can agree it very close and I can say it is a great adventure.

Allen Nyhuis (author of the 2008 travel book "America's Best Zoos") and I email each other on a weekly basis, and he just finished a zoo journey around Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Estonia and Poland. Anyway, he LOVED this new safari gondola and heaped a high amount of praise on it in an email. I personally am not usually impressed by such rides, but he loves zoo rides and maintains that visitors can spend longer viewing the animals at Kolmarden than the Kilimanjaro Safari ride at Disney's Animal Kingdom. Allen was actually quite impressed with the entire zoo, and it was one of three that he visited while in Sweden (Boras and Skansen being the other two).