I spent my birthday at his zoo in 2018. Fascinating place and I highly recommend going there for the history. Also you can get stupidly close to zebras and donkey zebra hybrids that roam the area.
When I was at Hacienda Napoles a few years ago the Zebras had escaped and three men were chasing them around calling them whores. It was _super_ fun. The zebras like many of the animals there have been in captivity for a long time. The zebras are a joke a bit because the government confiscated all his illegal zebra's, but instead gave them horses painted, so they represent his triumph over state power and why the sign/plane are all painted with the zebra stripes. I also fed Vanessa Pablo's pet hippo - petted her, fed her celery sticks and carrots. It's amazing place, when I was there Pablo's house was 40% torn down so it was fun to walk through what was left before it is gone. The city beside it - Doradal - is good to see too, and talk with locals at the football pitch about Pablo's history there. The hippo story emerges every 5-7 years as excellent clickbait/reminder of the order of things.
