Drakenstein Lion Park, Cape Town, South Africa

Today: Open today, 10:00 – 16:00
Standing: Notable
Rank: Rank 1,848 of 4,639

Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

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Opening hours

Monday	10:00 – 16:00
Tuesday	10:00 – 16:00
Wednesday	10:00 – 16:00
Thursday	10:00 – 16:00
Friday	10:00 – 16:00
Saturday	10:00 – 16:00
Sunday	11:00 – 16:00

Parsed from OpenStreetMap opening hours on 2026-09-09.

About Drakenstein Lion Park

Drakenstein Lion Park is a zoological park in Drakenstein, in the Western Cape inland from Cape Town. It was established in 1998 to keep lions that could not be rehabilitated into the wild, and it was meant to replace the now-defunct Tygerberg Zoo, which had housed possible descendants of the extinct Cape lion among other animals. Besides lions, the park has also kept other animals, including chimpanzees and tigers, some of them from Novosibirsk Zoo, where Tygerberg's director John Spence had obtained his lions.

Checked 2026-11-05 · Source