Lanterns at roger williams zoo pro#

The Asian Lantern Spectacular experience is open rain or shine. Active Roger Williams Park Zoo members save $2 off adult and $1 off child tickets nightly for the Asian Lantern Spectacular. Price: Adults $25 Children (ages 2-12) $23 Children 1 year and under are free. The show will feature over 50 spectacular glowing lantern displays, kids interactive lantern area, savory Asian-inspired cuisine and drinks, hand-crafted keepsakes, and more.ĭates: April 15 – Jon Wednesdays-Sundays. From dazzling and interactive displays to delicious Asian-inspired cuisine, this enchanting multicultural experience is sure to delight all ages! The lanterns event is similar to a previous event we’ve reviewed there, their October Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular (4.5 stars), but you’ll see more animals because the weather is warmer, and the entire zoo is open, so there’s more to see.Īnother creative nighttime event has come to the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, Rhode Island! Running now through July 4, the Asian Lantern Spectacular is an excuse to walk through the entire zoo at night, seeing “lantern” themed lit artwork, animals, and more.Journey through a wonderland of illuminated larger-than-life lanterns inspired by our wild world. Zoo animals, which are displayed during the daytime, are chosen to be diurnal, and they mostly don’t like the cold. But at the Asian Lantern Spectacular, now in May or especially in June, you’ll see plenty. Something like 10% of the animals were on display.Įveryone’s favorites are the African elephants, on display in a large enclosure with water and a waterfall. You’ll also see Watusi cattle, a sea lion, alpaca, flamingos, red crowned cranes, bald eagles, and more. I even heard a peacock cawing, looked up, and found that it was high up in a pine tree! I did spend some time searching visually for animals that weren’t there - perhaps the zoo could hang up signs on the enclosures where the animals would definitely be absent, asleep for the night. The zoo is 40 acres, and although the indoor attractions are closed because of the virus, the rest of the campus is available for strolling. It’s a natural environment, not a cement one, so you’ll see plenty of trees, there’s a lovely pond to stroll past, and a food plaza. Of course it’s delightful to go on a clear night when there are a ton of stars. On a night that threatens rain but doesn’t rain there won’t be any crowding - the event is rain or shine - and if it’s windy, that’s even more virus safe.

Lanterns at roger williams zoo pro#

Pro tip: the event runs Wednesday to Sunday, so go on an off day. The light displays are beautiful, and extensive! You’ll see perhaps 300 large lighted objects, the “lanterns”, mostly animals, but also some floral or abstract displays. Each is a metal frame, covered with a weatherproof cloth and lit from within. Some were simply animals and others had a multicolored, floral, Asian art appearance. There are so many of them! You’ll see oversized lighted peacocks, zebras, cheetahs, elephants, monkeys, hippos, parrots, lizards including Komodo dragons, kangaroos, frogs, giant dragonflies, camels, moose, bison, deer, alligators, seals, giraffes, and more. And each type of animal is shown a dozen times in lights. It’s wonderful to commune with nature: the animals, the trees and pond, and the lighted displays. Many of the animals are set into dioramas. For example the lighted penguins came in a display with lighted ice around them. There’s a “garden” of lighted oversized flowers with oversized insects: grasshoppers, beetles, butterflies, and wasps, and a chameleon shooting out its tongue to catch a fly.Ī few have sound effects, such as the whale with fish in an ocean setting, with sound effects of waves and the whale clearing its blowhole.