 For recreation, there was the wood, a canoeing lake created by damming the streams running through the area, the city's first zoo, complete with bears, lions, monkeys, elephants, jaguars and other animals, as well as a dance hall, a skating rink, fairground stalls, an aquarium, and an amusement park.Visitors paid 300 reais to enter.As there were few people living nearby the Jardim da Aclimação could only be reached by public transport on Sundays and public holidays when the No.