A day spent in Luisenpark, Mannheim. An amazing place, at first we thought it a little rude that you would have to pay 6 euro to go to a park, but by the end of the day we thought it was one of the cheapest & best things we had done to date.
The park is a magnificent 50 hectare site with many cool & shady grotos plus lush green open areas, a huge multi armed lake & many individual attractions.
All the attractions were so clean & beautifully presented. There were boats that you just hopped in & were bungyed onto an underwater cable, that took you around the whole lake, taking about 45 minutes. All the while hundreds of giant fish would rush up to the side of the boat with their mouths agape looking for a feed. They were pretty clever as they only approached boats that had people in them. There was a reptile house with snakes,lizards, crocodiles & much more. A butterfly house with a huge variety of coloured butterflies. A desert cactus house, that looked & felt like being in Arizona. A comprehensive aquarium house, with the displays clean & colourful. A tropical house that spread across 3 huge glass houses, it was very hot & humid, but a very lush & real jungle. A great Chinese garden with walk through water features and a beaut tea house. There were many more things to see & do & we enjoyed it immensely. We had a very hot night in the hotel where the A/C was not working & so decided to check out & not stay the second night, we found one nearby with a very good A/C & comfortable room, a very fortunate thing as it was again around 40 degrees today. We now have only 2 days of cycling to get back to Frankfurt. Tomorrow will be a 80 - 90 klm ride with a forecast drop in temperature to around 30 degrees. I am now thinking of going home & have probably had enough riding for this trip.
The park is a magnificent 50 hectare site with many cool & shady grotos plus lush green open areas, a huge multi armed lake & many individual attractions.
All the attractions were so clean & beautifully presented. There were boats that you just hopped in & were bungyed onto an underwater cable, that took you around the whole lake, taking about 45 minutes. All the while hundreds of giant fish would rush up to the side of the boat with their mouths agape looking for a feed. They were pretty clever as they only approached boats that had people in them. There was a reptile house with snakes,lizards, crocodiles & much more. A butterfly house with a huge variety of coloured butterflies. A desert cactus house, that looked & felt like being in Arizona. A comprehensive aquarium house, with the displays clean & colourful. A tropical house that spread across 3 huge glass houses, it was very hot & humid, but a very lush & real jungle. A great Chinese garden with walk through water features and a beaut tea house. There were many more things to see & do & we enjoyed it immensely. We had a very hot night in the hotel where the A/C was not working & so decided to check out & not stay the second night, we found one nearby with a very good A/C & comfortable room, a very fortunate thing as it was again around 40 degrees today. We now have only 2 days of cycling to get back to Frankfurt. Tomorrow will be a 80 - 90 klm ride with a forecast drop in temperature to around 30 degrees. I am now thinking of going home & have probably had enough riding for this trip.
A memorial at the base of the tower in the following picture, for 3 crew & 1 doctor who died when their helicopter flew into the top of the tower one night in 1994 after dropping a patient at the nearby hospital. The top section of
tower was severed & the chopper & tower segment plunged down to this spot.
The tower has a viewing platform & a revolving restaurant at the top.
Yvonne sits & watches the driverles boats going past on the lake .
One of the many cafes with one of the great little boats.
The fish crowding in to be fed, they allow you to pat them & occasionally bite your finger, not painful, just like sand paper.
A fish about to give my finger a good gumming.
Yvonne checks out some day lillies.
Another nest of storks, there were many of these.
The colour of these birds is hard to believe.
There were many penguins in this enclosure.
A glass wall in the penguin enclosure.
On our boat cruise of the lake.
A group of flamingos.
In the tropical house.
Some colourful monkeys.
Fish aquarium.
A corner of the desert house.
In the butterfly house, I didn't get a picture of the big blue ones as they kept moving.
Part of the Chinese garden.
Inside a large stone water feature.
A nice pagoda in the gardens.
A wobbly rope bridge .
Not sure what these things made from old bricks were.
A spectacular colourful varied day for you all. We are currently enjoying some great riding with Oscar, pram walking with Jessica plus yummy BBQ food cooked by young Master Chef Oscar...plus Jessica gobbled up my tasty home made custard. 10 out of 10 Team Adlam! Off to Toogoom tracks and Hervey Bay in am for more riding / picnics. Hugs M & M
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