Discovery Tour
Let a personal guide introduce you to the incredible animals and plants living at the San Diego Zoo during a Discovery Tour. Sit back in the comfort of our expedition shuttle cart for an enhanced version of our popular guided bus tour. The Discovery Tour provides you with more opportunities to get great photographs for an experience to remember!
Your experienced guide will share stories about the plants and animals in our living museum, how our conservation research work helps their wild relatives, and how little things we all do can make a big difference. The Discovery Tour route includes areas of the Zoo not seen from the regular bus tour. Best of all, you can step off for better views of your favorite critters and ask your guide as many questions as you like as you watch the antics of our animals.
The Discovery Tour is a 60-minute program that covers 70 percent of the Zoo. If you have a short amount of time to see all the Zoo has to offer, or don’t like waiting in line for the double-decked bus tour, this is the experience for you!
What’s Growin’ On
This Discovery Tour option focuses on the rare, common, and cool plants at the Zoo. Enjoy a more personalized tour on an electric cart while your knowledgeable guide answers your botanical questions about our huge “garden” as you discover that we are more than a Zoo!
