Zoo am Meer


The Zoo am Meer isn’t spectacular on the face of things, but it enthrals kids, partly because the enclosures are cleverly built into one big artificial ‘rock’ formation. They’ll see a polar bear (or if he’s sleeping, a fluffy pile of fur on a rock), polar foxes, harbour seals, Humboldt penguins, pumas and chimpanzees. Ask at the tourist office for feeding times.


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