The Park of the Gold Head

Our friend the tapir

This buvette charmed the heck out of me.

We went to Parc de la Tete D'Or over the weekend.  We brought sandwiches and oranges.  Parc de la Tete D'Or is a large and lovely park. We walked around the green houses, the botanical garden, the free zoo and the rose garden.  We also saw a turtle pond filled with North American turtles. People in Europe enjoyed these turtles as pets in the 1970s, but then many people set them free and they started causing problems for European turtles.  

Parc de la Tete D'Or has a pond set up for these invading refugees.  They have between 800 and 1,000 American turtles in there. We saw a park worker feeding them crabs.  It's now illegal to buy these turtles in France.  I wish there was some way we could get the turtles back to the states.  They seem happy enough, but some of them looked a little homesick.