You, Belong Inwards The Zoo...The Berlin Zoo!



Catch upwards on this trip...
Part One 
Part Two 
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five

 After a few days of Very Important History touring, we're dialing it dorsum a bit. This morning, we've learned most the joys of menemen (Turkish scrambled eggs) at La Fiamma close our hotel. Then, it's off to the nearest U-Bahn station at Bulowstrasse.

 It's exclusively 3 stops to our destination, the Berlin Zoo, merely a curt walk from the Zoologischer Garten Station on the U2 line. I likewise abide by that the Hertz rental auto purpose is across the street, which volition come upwards inward handy inward a few days.
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 The entrance to the zoo is Chinese themed. Once inside, it's wide avenues in addition to pathways render slowly access for Tim's wheelchair to gently cruise through the park.  We recess at a convenient bench close the entrance to acquire our bearings in addition to hold off at the zoo map.

 Laid out inward a large circle alongside diverse spokes running through the middle, nosotros plough off into the primate surface area first.

 The colorful macacques are inward the start enclosure piece a moping orangutan is adjacent door.

 Letty is taken alongside the chimp mom alongside a tiny infant on her back.

 Tim in addition to I direct maintain inward the mount gorillas in addition to capuchins.

 A pocket-size mount is total of, what else, mount goats.

 Elephants browse their enclosure piece giraffes ignore them across the way.

In the middle is a real large in addition to fun looking playground for the kids alongside the ever-present biergarten adjacent to that for the adults.

The lions in addition to other large cats are within their houses beingness fed in addition to hence nosotros acquire to listen a few practiced roars earlier their handlers shoo them dorsum into their outdoor enclosures.

 Before leaving, it's hot in addition to nosotros direct maintain merely about H2O ice cream on a serenity bench. I hold off over my should in addition to meet an impala a few feet away looking at it hungrily.

 Back on the U-Bahn, nosotros caput to the other destination of Tiergarten...the vast, main, cardinal green of the city...and hike a piffling along the banks of the river.

Soon, nosotros acquire out that path into the driveway of a large, white palace. This is Bellevue, the official residence of the country's president, Joachim Gauck equally of this writing (Angela Merkel is Chancellor).

 No tours are available but nosotros produce abide by a sign for an upcoming Open House...I gauge this is the chance to meet within if you're interested.

 Across the street, nosotros function inward the vast green in addition to wander inward the full general direction to the due south edge, where nosotros tin brand our agency dorsum to the hotel.

First, nosotros transcend past times the Victoria peace monument in addition to a few naked Germans taking inward the sun.

 Next, it's through the heavily forested grounds until nosotros come upwards upon a pocket-size lake with...what else...a biergarten on it's shores.

We direct maintain wages of the relaxing views to direct maintain a piffling dessert in addition to a brew earlier calling it a day.

 Darryl
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