This is a really awesome zoo. Right up close and personal with the animals. amazing number of big cats. A little far off the beaten path. BTW according to Google maps it's located in Santa Cruz de Yojoa but it's really about 20 minutes further in a dirt road.

It is an incredible place to have a good time with your family, security, reliability, kindness.

I love it! I recommend it.

A very nice place to take your children to see the animals. The best part of the zoo is when they feed the lions. Which is later in the afternoon.

The Zoo Joya Grande (which stands for Big Jewel), lives up to its name. The access to the zoo is quite complicated and tiring, since you have to drive between 40 to 60 min in a narrow dirt road in bad condition. The best rout to get to the zoo is by Santa Cruz the Yojoa Town, and not by the recommendation of Google Maps (since that route, although is the shortest, it lacks of informative signs and the road is accesible only for 4x4 vehicles with 4WD. Once you get to the zoo, the tortuous trip is for got ten, as the facilites and entertainment are quite nice (I can take the courage to compare it with a Disney’s Animal Kingdom, but Honduras' version). The entrance to the zoo is US$ 10 for adults, US$ 8 for seniors, US$ 5 for children (5 to 11 years old), and children under 5 years is free. And yes, you can pay with Creditcards. There are many types of animals to see: ostrich, hippopotamus, tigers, lions, camels, birds, reptiles, etc. The zoo is no longer supported by the Honduras goverment. So the visitors entrance payment is the only support the zoo has for the maintenance and care of the animals. The Zoo Joya Grande deserves a 5 stars rating, but the conditions of access, make it get a 4 stars rating.

The personnel here make guests feel comfortable and the hotel is well decorated. If you're into biology or veterinarian studies, they offer a week to get first hand experience taking care of the animals.

Very beautiful place

It is worth the effort to get there, the experience is unique.

It was something wonderful to get to see this majestic animals, but it a sad things as the guardians said that they are dying without care; Moving on, the food is terrible

This place ain’t right . Animals don’t have enough space nor water and everything smells bad 🙁 animals are dying because lack of care … don’t recommend this place .

Lindisimo

Love it.

Ta gueno

Very pretty animals!!

Spent all day swimming and looking at animals. A little expensive for the food but all in all worth it.

Awesome place to bring yoyr family...

This place is a real gem! The amount of animals was astounding! They have pools and restaurants inside the zoo. It's an amazing beautiful place!

Very good, place a lots of interesting animals.staff were nice.

Lots of animals. No elephant.

Excelent park. Animals kept very well and very clean. Great place to visit with kids. Many amenities and animals to see. Go early and during week days you'll have the park literally all for your selves.

I was really impressed with this zoo! I did not expect to see something this nice in Honduras, especially with as far as you have to go out of town to get to it. But it's well worth the drive! NOTE: the location shown on Google is wrong!!

Relatively few animals but a lot of tigers born many of them in the zoo specially the white tigers, precious animals. And after you finish watching the animals, go to the pool, refreshing...!!!

This place is extremely awesome!! U get to see the animals!! Face to face

Very nice place but many of the animals need urgent help

Hello, good morning, does anyone know if the Joya Grande zoo is enabled or not or is it closed?