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Wildlife-loving kids will adore a walk around Shepreth Wildlife Park, which is home to a northern lynx, red pandas and a pair of Sumatran tigers, Ratna and Kelab. There’s plenty more, too, from otters to owls and tortoises to tarantulas. You can see the sights aboard the safari train, plus catch demos including a birds of prey display and otter feeding. There’s a cafe for when hunger strikes, and a soft play area for kids to let off steam in, too. SHEPRETH WILDLIFE PARK
MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY
Discover stories of survival, evolution, extinction and conservation at the Museum of Zoology, which reopened last summer after a £4.1 million revamp. Home to one of the UK’s most significant natural history collections, creatures great and small jostle for visitors’ attention inside, from the fiercest of predators to the most delicate of insects. The most impressive of all, which greets you as you enter the building, is the enormous fin whale skeleton – at 21 metres long, it’s among the largest of its kind ever recorded, and fills the entrance hall end to end. You can also explore Darwin’s beetle collection, ogle one of the world’s most complete dodo skeletons and see the teeth, tusks and hair belonging to that Ice Age superstar, the woolly mammoth. Admission is free and there’s an on-site cafe.
CLIP ’N’ CLIMB
Explore the grandeur of what was one of the largest and most opulent homes in Jacobean England with a trip to Audley End house and gardens, located just outside Saffron Walden. In addition to the stately home, there are beautiful gardens to run about in (designed by Capability Brown, no less), horses to meet at the Victorian stable yard, plus a play area in which kids can burn off some energy. There’s a busy programme of events over the summer months, from alfresco concerts and cinema screenings to living history events where you can see the house as it was in its Victorian heyday, with costumed characters. AUDLEY END HOUSE & GARDENS
Celebrating its third birthday this month, and over 150,000 happy customers so far, Clip ’n’ Climb combines a mini theme park and climbing centre at its Clifton Road site. There are loads of fun challenges that the whole family can enjoy together, from climbing commando style on the Jungle Gym to lighting up the board on the Checkerplate. For the most daring, there are extreme challenges such as the vertical drop slide (eek), but you don’t need any experience or special equipment to take part.
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