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Give them the chance to fall in love with something furry, slithery or feathered
(...who they won't bring home)
Experience days make great days out gifts for animal lovers. Meerkat encounters, wildlife photography experience days, horse riding, walking with a llama, camel trekking, tackling your phobia, keeper for the day, big cat encounters - the list is ever expanding. These experience days give your loved one the chance to go behind the scenes and get close up and personal with their favourite animal, be it the red panda, penguins, owls, or anything else. They usually offer the chance to find out more about conservation, too, giving the participant the opportunity to talk to the animals' keepers.
There are a couple of ways to buy animal experience days - one is by purchasing them from gift experience companies such as Activity Superstore, Buy-a-Gift, Red Letter Days, Virgin Experience Days & Into the Blue. The advantage of buying from these is that most of them will give you the chance to exchange the gift for another experience, should they need or want to. When we gave my father a Meerkat Encounter for his 80th birthday, we chose to go through Buy a Gift, rather than direct from Paradise Wildlife Park, so that if necessary, we could swap the meerkat experience in Hertfordshire to something closer to home (Southampton, at the time). Key to buying any experience is to book early so as not to fall foul of the expiry date - these usually cannot be extended - to check locations and all the notes the providers give you before buying.
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