A high-altitude zoo with snow leopards and red pandas, sharing a campus with the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute founded after the 1953 Everest ascent.
One ticket covers both the zoo and the institute. The snow leopard breeding programme here is internationally significant. Closed on Thursdays.
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