Our Encounters
We are proud to offer a wide range of exciting opportunities, with our experienced team, to enjoy up close encounters with a variety of our species. These encounters are crafted to be enriching for both our animals and you.
Cheetah Encounter
From: $100.00Meet our amazing cheetah brothers up close, so close you will hear them purring like a V-8 along with their other vocalisations. You will provide the boys with some of their favourite snacks and the keeper will share the training that we do with our boys to make health care easier.
Minimum 13 years of age
Dingo Encounter
From: $35.00Help our keeper make our dingo’s day! Our dingoes love meeting new people, receiving a scratch and a pat and they may even return the gesture with a sniff and a lick.
Minimum 6 years of age
Early Bird Tour
From: $480.00Early morning is a great time to have the zoo to yourself and see our wildlife when they are most active and always glad to greet their keepers. You can join in on this exclusive Early Bird Tour which includes zoo entry and a personal guided tour with an experienced keeper who will share their stories about our wildlife and their personalities and will have a bucket breakfast of treats to give a variety of animals. Our dingoes will howl their early greeting to you and you will have the opportunity to enter their enclosure and feed them their breakfast.
Minimum age : 6 years
Giraffe Encounter
From: $60.00Join our tower of giraffes and enjoy them gently taking feed from your hands as the keeper passes you some of their favourite treats such as carrots. You will be so close that you will feel their breath and see their amazing tongues built for retrieving food from tall trees.
Minimum 13 years of age
Lizard Encounter
From: $25.00Enjoy an opportunity to get up close with one of the many Australian lizards in our collection. There are nearly 700 named species of lizard in Australia, learn all about their remarkable lives, where they live, what they eat and the amazing way they control body temperatures.
Minimum 4 years of age
Meerkat Encounter
From: $50.00Meet our mischievous mob up close. Accompanied by an experienced keeper, you will be armed with their favourite treats. Relatively fearless, don’t be surprised if they climb onto your lap and the sentry on duty chooses your shoulder or even your head as the best lookout post. We will ensure you have wonderful photographs to remember the experience.
Minimum 9 years of age
Otter Encounter
From: $100.00We are the only zoo in Australia offering the opportunity to provide a hands on, fishy lunch with our cheeky Asian small-clawed otters. You can even hold hands and feel the softness of an otter’s paw as the girls take some food from your hands.
Minimum 13 years of age
Red Panda Encounter
From: $100.00An unforgettable experience, during the encounter you will be seated in the enclosure, where the panda will often walk across your lap and very often brush your face with their tail as they move past. You will help feed our panda their favourite treat of fresh fruit for the day.
Minimum 9 years of age
White Rhino Encounter
From: $80.00Give an endangered three-ton rhino a pat and make his day with a mix of attention and his favourite food. Accompanied by two of our keepers who will ensure your safety while you meet this gentle giant, feel his lips as he gently takes hay from your hand and his thick hide as he leans towards you.
Minimum 6 years of age
Wombat encounter
From: $50.00Be prepared for a cuteness overload!
Come and meet our Wombat joey for a play date
Minimum 6 years of age.
Special Packages
Membership
Become a member of Halls Gap Zoo to come and go as you please with unlimited entry for 12 months! Your membership helps us to build a bigger and better zoo to help protect species for future generations.
Bring a friend along with you and they will enjoy a 10% discount on their general admission.
Group Bookings Adults
We provide a discount for groups of people.
- 1 to 9 Adults – $42.00 per person
- 10 to 20 Adults – $37.00 per person
- 21 or more Adults – $30.00 per person
Should you require an invoice, please email us at info@hallsgapzoo.com.au
Group Booking Children
We provide a discount for groups of children.
Children are aged from 3-17yrs (under 3yrs free).
- 1 to 14 Children – $21.00 per child
- 15 or more Children – $19.00 per child
- School booking – Click here
Should you require an invoice, please email us at info@hallsgapzoo.com.au
School Bookings
OPTION 1: Keeper Guided Tour
@ 11am OR 2pm
$18.00 per child Year 12 and under
(min $250)
OPTION 2: Keeper Talk & Self-guided Tour
@10.15am OR 11.15am OR 2pm
$16.00 per child Year 12 and under
(min $200)
Ratios of 1:5 for Kinder – Yr2, 1:10 for Yr3 – Yr6 and 1:15 for Yr7 above (always 2 staff required)
Adults above the ratio will be $25 each.
Zoo Keeper for a Day
Spend the whole day discovering what a Zoo keeper does. Assist in daily exhibit maintenance, preparing animal diets or enrichments and feeding the animals.
Zoo Keeper for a Morning
In this experience you have the opportunity to assist a keeper for a morning. Tasks include helping with daily exhibit maintenance, preparing animal diets or enrichments.
Gift Voucher
Our printable Gift Vouchers are a wonderful gift for someone special.
Vouchers can be redeemed on our website.
Animal Adoption
Here’s the perfect gift for the animal lover in your family (even if that person is you!).
The animals involved in our encounters are conditioned to be accustomed to the interactions with visitors and participation in the encounters is voluntary for the animals. The encounters are delivered in a way to be enriching to both the animals and visitors.
what our visitors say
best spot for family outings and all the animals were so cute and interactive, ( they have quokkas!!! )
they also have animal interactions that you have to book in advance, so i recommend looking into that before you come here
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In the interest of public safety, the zoo will be closed today (Wednesday 28th August). As the wind is supposed to increase during the day, we have made the decision for our guests, animals and our staff.
Hoping to see everyone tomorrow!
If you had an animal encounter booked for today, we will be in contact to reschedule.
The weather is warming up, which means our reptiles are becoming more active.
Our lace monitor has taken advantage of the sun being out ☀️
📸 Keeper Tash.
#lacemonitor #lizard #reptile #hallsgapzoo #grampians #victoria
Bean the wombat thought he`d take re-mulching into his own paws.
📸 Keeper Paris
#commonwombat #barenosedwombat #wombat #hallsgapzoo #Victoria
Great hair, perfect lighting.
Pumba is ready for his modelling debut 🌟🙌
📸 Keeper Carmen
#highlandcow #scottishhighlandcattle #hallsgapzoo
Game time!
How many wallabies can you see in this photo?
📸 Supervisor Mila
#brushtailedrockwallaby #marsupial #hallsgapzoo
A Disney movie, or just another day at Halls Gap Zoo?
📸 Keeper Marcus
#greentreefrog #boydsforestdragon #reptile #hallsgapzoo #lizard #grampians #melbourne
When the afternoon light hits the quoll habitats 🙌📸
#spottedtailquoll #quoll #hallsgapzoo #grampians #visitvictoria #melbourne
Get to know our zoo keepers with a game of `I`m passing the phone` 📱🦜🦦
#impassingthephone #hallsgapzoo #zookeepers #redpanda #capuchin #sunconure #ruffedlemur #meerkats #beardeddragon #stickinsect
🦌 Meet the majestic elk! 🦌 Halls Gap Zoo is home to 4 elk- 3 female and 1 male.
Did you know? Female elk, also known as cows, play a crucial role in the elk community. They are highly adaptable and can be found in various habitats across North America, from forests to open plains.
Unlike their male counterparts, female elk don’t have antlers. Instead, they are known for their agility and nurturing instincts, especially during calving season in the spring.
These amazing creatures are excellent foragers, feeding on grasses, sedges, and shrubs. Their keen senses help them detect predators like wolves and bears, allowing them to protect their calves and thrive in the wild.
#elk #cows #hallsgapzoo #hoofstock #visitvictoria #grampians
Did you know- Tasmanian devils are the second largest surviving carnivorous mammal in Australia, only loosing out to the dingo!
When your wombat joey is never far behind 🥰🫶
📸 Keeper Jale
#wombat #joey #marsupial #australianwildlife #hallsgapzoo #victoria #melbourne #grampians
