• About 1.5 hours' drive from Lisbon, between Santiago do Cacém and Sines, so plan it as a full day out
• Plan your visit at the ticket office, since safari and show times shift with the crowds; it closes 90 minutes before the park does
• African Rafting costs extra (€4.90), a 10-minute ride where everyone gets wet; kids must be 90cm tall, and under 130cm ride with an adult

Badoca is a large animal park in the Alentejo countryside, built around a 45-minute tractor-trailer safari across open savanna where giraffes, zebras, ostriches, buffalo and several kinds of antelope roam.

Between safari runs, kids watch eagles and hawks fly in a birds of prey show, see lemurs and a reptile talk, visit Primate Island, and walk forest paths past a small farm, meerkats and kangaroos.