Europe Trip 2011 #18: The Zoo and Aquarium - 3

The aquarium part of the zoo was really interesting, although many of the exhibits were hard to photograph due to constant movement. One of the unexpected parts was a range of snakes, turtles and lizards etc in addition to fish, including some tuatara from New Zealand. No pictures of the tuatara, although they did seem to have sufficient house crickets wandering around for them to eat when needed :-)

Europe Trip 2011 #17: The Zoo and Aquarium - 2

Here are some more pictures from the Zoo. Some of these look like people I know [especially in the first 3 photos] :-) so feel free to nominate who they might be! ha ha ha

Take a look at the last photo - I just put this in to show one of the features of the zoo. Mostly, the fences are really low [except at least in the aviary and monkey enclosures where there are full cages], such that anyone could step over them, with separation between humans and animals by virtue of a deep moat/ gully. It's a nice way to remove many of the bars, but still keep the animals safe from the visitors :-)

Europe Trip 2011 #16: The Zoo and Aquarium - 1

Today's big trip was to Zoo-Berlin and associated aquarium which was a bit of fun. I was going to take a taxi [way to far for me to walk!], but the hotel reception suggestion I take the U-Bahn [subway/ underground rail]. It was to be a quick trip from a local u-bahn station to the station right by the zoo.

All good until I found out on the first train that the train would stop early due to track maintenance and that I needed to change to a different line, but it all worked out well. After the train trip, the entrance to the zoo was not obvious [I really should read the clear signs!], but I worked that out eventually, and spent some time looking around.

This and the next 2 posts have some of the photos I took.

Enjoy!