Animals, Anyone?

If you're anything like me, you enjoy going to the zoo! Well, we aren't alone. More than three million visitors come to the Berlin zoo each year to enjoy a day out looking  at the animals.

In Berlin, a city that's hardly short of spectacular attractions, the zoo is a firm favorite with visitors.  The locals are very fond of their zoo and its inhabitants, too. Berlin Zoo is the oldest zoological garden in Germany, and the ninth-oldest in the world. It boasts an unrivalled range of species, and offers remarkable experiences, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in a remarkable world of animal noises, smells and colours.

The zoo's buildings and outdoor areas provide a journey back in time through the last 160 years of zoological architecture, ranging from the historical menagerie and buildings in exotic styles to state-of-the-art animal enclosures.

There is so much to discover: on the three floors of the art nouveau aquarium, for example, you can take an expedition to the Great Barrier Reef with its tropical reef sharks or see the crocodiles of the Amazon jungle. Besides its more typical 'stars', the zoo usually has some new arrivals every few days, so there are bound to be some cute baby animals to admire somewhere.