About 3.9 lakh people visited the National Zoo at Mirpur in Dhaka in three days beginning on Eid day, celebrated on March 31.
People of all ages gathered outside the zoo between 11:30 am and 2:00pm on Tuesday, waiting to enter.
As time rolled, the crowd continued to grow. The growing crowd also caused traffic congestion in the surrounding areas.
Mirazul Islam Miraz, a four-year-old boy who visited the zoo with his father, travelling all the way from Savar, said, with a big smile on his face, that he had liked the lions and the tigers the most.
His father Al Amin was, however, somewhat disappointed. 鈥楾he animals were less energetic. The number of animals was also lower than what it was when I last visited a few years ago.鈥�
The National Zoo director Mohammad Rafiqul Islam Talukder on the day said that around 70,000 people had visited the place on Eid day. The number was about a lakh in 2024.
The day after Eid day, around 1.8 lakh people visited the zoo, which is an increase from 1.6 lakh people who visited the zoo the day after Eid in 2024. On Wednesday, 1.4 lakh people visited the zoo which is almost the same number of visitors to the zoo on the third day of Eid in 2024, he added.
The zoo鈥檚 web site says that there are 3,342 animals, birds and fish of 135 species in the zoo spanning 186 acres.
People, especially those with children, also waited in queues for more than an hour to ride the train or the merry-go-round at the children鈥檚 park inside the zoo.
