Travelog post for: Barnardo

Hi Mummy,
today we visited the zoo in Wuppertal, one of the largest, most nicely landscaped zoos in Germany with many rare animals.

Wuppertal is the neighbour town of Remscheid, famous for the worldwide one and only Monorail Suspension Railway (Schwebebahn). The suspension railway travels along a route about 13 kilometres long, about 12 metres above the surface of the river Wupper and approximately 8 m above the city streets. At one point the railway even crosses the A46 motorway. The entire trip takes about 30 minutes. One of the stations is "Zoo/Stadion".









Here I am standing in front of the zoo.



This is the entrance area.





It was so hot today that many animals were hiding in the shadow or in their dens. The elephants were outside. They have a baby that was born in January 2008.



I saw a lot of different monkey here: Orangutans, chimps, gorillas and prosimians.







Here are seals.





This is one of the ponds for ducks and geese. The island in the middle belongs to a monkey enclosure. The monkey can run and climb here.



When we left the zoo it started raining and we heard thunder in a distance. Now it's raining again.

Bye
Barnardo