1/2 Photo: Beekse Bergen / Mariska Vermij – van Dijk.
Cheeta enthusiasts can indulge themselves during a motor safari in the Beekse Bergen. They can spot the animals from their car again. The stay of the predators has been renovated and expanded with a good canal, making it safer for humans and animals. During the Autosafari, visitors no longer continue, but past the stay of the Cheetas.
During the renovation of their stay, the animals were in a different place in the park and they were not visible at all for visitors who drove through the park at all.
Not without reason. In September 2022, a German student was bitten by a cheetah in his head and arm when he ignored warnings and walked into the stay with two classmates. A few years before it also went almost horribly wrong, when two families with a small child got out during the Safari. This route has now been adjusted.
In 2019, the park said that it would not make any adjustments to the motor safari or the stay, but that has now happened, as it became clear earlier. The route no longer runs through the stay and a large canal has been added to the cheta residence. In this way, visitors can no longer visit the Cheetas, since that sometimes went wrong in recent years.
In addition to the new canal, hills, hiding places and tree trunks have also been added to the stay. From their renovated stay, the cheetas overlook rhinos and elandantilopen. And on visitors, in their car.
