Longleat is unveiling another one of their new safari tours for online visitors to enjoy this coming weekend.

The world-famous Wiltshire safari park opened its virtual gates for a 20-minute internet journey on May 2.

Now the next one is due on May 9.

Both the new tours feature areas of the park people normally visit on foot and will be brought to life using a combination of audio commentary and video footage.

Longleat's first virtual tour was watched by 554,000 people over a three-day period; with viewers from as far a field as Australia, New Zealand, America, India and the UAE.

Many viewers entered into the spirit of the tour by either transforming their living rooms into mini safari parks with toy animals or creating their own safari vehicles out of cardboard boxes.

"We were absolutely stunned and delighted with the positive response we got from the first virtual safari and ever since we have been hard at work planning newtours," said Longleat's Marketing Director James Bailey.

"Hopefully they are providing families with the chance to come together and enjoy a virtual day out," he added.

Among the new destinations last weekend was Jungle Kingdom, home to meerkats,aardvarks and porcupines and Monkey Temple with its red pandas and free-flying lorikeets.

This coming weekend's tour (Saturday, 9th May also at 10am) will venture down under to meet the iconic marsupials at Koala Creek, head over to Central and South American to view giant otters and Cuban crocodiles.

The tour, which also includes emus and wallabies, ends in Animal Adventure; home to blue and gold macaws, armadillos and giant Egyptian fruit bats.

More details here: the Longleat site

On its site, the park says about closing due to coronavirus: " We will be taking advise from the Government and Public Health England as to when it may be safe to reopen. At the moment, we will be closed until at least the end of May (31st). "