If you live in England and have a tv, you've probably at one point or another have seen a program titled, "Animal Park." This show chronicles the goings on of the safari park on the grounds of the 900 acre Longleat House estate. Each episode there seems to be some monumental birth or arrival of one or another exotic animal, or they need to decide to euthanise an animal that has lived there for 30 years, or they document something going on at the house. I have been watching this show for months and feel I've come to know the places and animals in the park quite well and have wanted to visit it for some time now. Well, today we went. Since it turned out to be a beautiful fall day, we decided to make it a motorcycle trip (the ride taking us right by Stonehenge again). Doing so, we knew we wouldn't be able to go through the safari park, but there are many other things to do there. We took our time going through the largest hedge maze, planted in the 1970's. It's funny, we managed to find the natural exit within minutes, but that also meant we missed like 90 percent of the maze, so we cut back in and took our time. Pausing on some of the bridges that gave birds eye views of the maze, although they weren't helpful, you couldn't really see where to go, it was just that convoluted of a well designed maze. I wonder how many kids go into the maze to play "Harry Potter" We wandered through the Butterfly House and admired all the exotic and mostly neotropical butterflies. Of course we toured "Pets Corner" which contains all small cute adorable animals like marmosets and snowy white tiny Siberian chipmunks. And we toured the Longleat house itself. Our tickets are good until November 4th, the drive wasn't too bad, we'll have to come back by car to go through the safari park.