Alamo is a town in Crockett County, Tennessee, in the central part of West Tennessee.
(It has nothing to do with THE ALAMO in San Antonio, Texas, which of course the two RV Gypsies have visited).

Below: Alamo, Tennessee may be a small town, but yet it has two Water Towers.

The two RV Gypsies at
Tennessee Safari Park
618 Conley Road - Alamo, TN 38001
June 3, 2022

phone: '731.696.4426 for hours and info

There is a petting zoo, a Giraffe feeding area (they sell carrot sticks for this), and a Safari drive-through.

Admission to the park on this date was $24 adults, $16 kids ages 2 - 12,. Feed cups were $3 each for four cups for $10. Open every day except Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Thanksgiving. No on-line ticket sales. No dogs or outside animals allowed in the park, anytime, anywhere. Gates close at 5 p.m. (All prices and hours quoted on this website are subject to change as time passes, and the two RV Gypsies have NO control over these things).

The Tennessee Safari Park's mission is to create and provide educational activities and environments for the community and abroad to bring appreciation and conservational awareness for all living things. They aim to gain long term sustainability for our world's rare and endangered flora and fauna in their natural environment.

The Tennessee Safari Park is located on a century farm owned by the Conley Family since 1858, called Hillcrest. The farm has produced numerous types of crops and has always stayed entrepreneurial in the products that were developed and sold on the farm. Claude H Conley I instilled a strong interest in his son, Claude M Conley, at a very young age to love and appreciate Hillcrest, the Conley Family and all of its animals. They collected pheasants, peafowl and various types of deer. This was a pivotal moment in the young mans life and he knew he wanted to see animals from around the world saved and protected right here on the family farm. The collection grew over the years with Bison in 1963, forming the first privately owned Bison in the state of Tennessee. Damara Zebras were added in 1980 and various rare and endangered antelope were added throughout the 80's and 90's. In 2007, Claude Sr. and his two sons, Claude H Conley II and Jon Wesley Conley, decided to create a park to showcase these rare and endangered species and bring a top tourism attraction to the West Tennessee rural farm. Today the safari park has one of the largest collections of zoo animals in the United States.

Below: Lee Duquette bought the food to feed the animals. Karen Duquette HATED the experience because the animals were sometimes slobbery. With her window open, some of the animals stuck their heads further into the window than Karen liked. So Karen left the feeding to Lee and just enjoyed taking pictures. Sometimes, Lee just dropped the bucket out onto the ground because several animals came at once and were much too aggressive.

A llama is a domesticated South American animal. Llamas are social animals and live with others as a herd. Their wool is soft and contains only a small amount of lanolin. Llamas can learn simple tasks after a few repetitions. When using a pack, they can carry about 25 to 30% of their body weight for 5–8 miles The name llama was adopted by European settlers from native Peruvians. These Llamas were skinny.

Below: Even with Karen Duquette's window closed, animals pushed their faces against her window. Karen was so glad her window was closed. Lee Duquette was jiggling his bucket out his window to get the animals to go to his side of the car.

Below: The three camels got all tangled up together. It almost looks like there are only two camels, but look closely and your will see a third camel head.

The Camel below looked like he was trying to talk to The Two RV Gypsies, either that or it wanted to show-off its teeth.

Continue on to page 2 - The Bison Field and The fenced area and more animals