Lush green hills and grassy fields dominate the premium real state that the Zoological Society of San Diego has been able to lease from the city of San Diego.

From the gondola you can also see part of the San Diego Wild Animal Park, where animals are allowed even more freedom than the zoo. You'll need a large zoom lens if you want to snap photos of individual animals instead of just scenery.

A few of the larger species are rotated back and forth from the San Diego Zoo to the Wild Animal Park in order to give them a vacation from their smaller habitats.