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On Monday in Cologne zoo discounts - adult ticket for the day is 11,5 € instead of 15 € - a very nice bonus for animal lovers and nature in general. It should be noted that the zoo in the city is one of the oldest in Germany and was opened back in 1856.
To get there, we decided to buy tickets to the U-Bahn: the usual choices were many, and of which we have chosen for a day pass, which cost $ 11,1 €. However, with the purchase of a real ride out - several machines at the station take only coins or credit cards. Rummaging through his pockets, we find that more than ten euros trifle gain is unlikely to succeed - and then enlightens me - there is a plastic card Visa salary from Sberbank. Joyful, I inserted the card into the receiver, but the machine, based on its internal, understood only by him, beliefs, decided that he wanted to cheat and read the data refused. As a result, effortlessly spotted station cashier Eberplatz KVB (local trucking companies), and, having exchanged fifty dollars, and bought a ticket. He acts within the Cologne and allows a group of five people to travel around the city without limiting the number of trips.
Once at the zoo, discover there is a decent place - many people know about the campaign on Monday and come here with their families. After passing through the gate, find ourselves in the realm of nature - the day was warm enough, and almost all the animals happy basking in the sun and posing for photographers. Whiskered behemoths exceeded in this case all - while we filmed them on camera, they did not move, such exposure would envy any fashion model!
In addition to the zoo, we met old acquaintances: dolphins, elephants and camels, and even some new friends - meerkats, strange birds and baboons. In the creation of favorable conditions employed so many people - guards, gardeners, drivers, special equipment. Animals require constant care and the staff go out of their way to keep order in cages and aviaries.
In one of the buildings of Zoo is a tropical plant, and we found a huge flower "Female Happiness," a science known as spatsifillum. He was four times greater than those of their counterparts who live in pots on the windowsill in Russia. In this room, it was very wet, the camera lens fogged up very quickly, and do we felt very comfortable, so quickly abandoned zoo.
In addition to the present inhabitants of the zoo, it is also inhabited by the ancient stuffed animals. All of them were collected in the collection, and is in a special exhibition hall, build quality was very high, and sometimes it was hard to believe that all the animals are artificial. There was a place in the exhibition and our ancestors - the ancestors of the people in Mammoth dragged their prey in a tent - so we introduced the ancient Homo Sapiens.
After strolling around a bit more to the zoo, finally decide to go to the aquarium. In the rather dark atmosphere throughout bright illumination lit aquarium with the aquatic habitats. Here, bright fish, and shellfish, and even a real reptile! If at the zoo we saw a stuffed, then this little crocodile was very much alive - though to see how it flickers, it was a challenge.
After a three-hour visit to the zoo, go back to the hotel for a snack and a break from the long walk. An hour later, we go back to the subway station Eberplatz, to set off on the final stop 18 route - Thielenbruch, there is the eponymous museum Cologne tram. By terrible coincidence trains on this day in this area cruised to delays in the morning if we did not attach any significance to this fact, but now it was not pleasant. We waited about half an hour the desired composition and finally went into the car, sitting on plastic seats.
It took more than 20 minutes to get to Thielenbruch and discover there ... closed doors! It turns out this small museum is quite popular with tourists and locals alike, may be due to its specific exposure, may be because of the distance from the center. He opened a couple of times a month and, of course, we came to not a visiting day. This is what we told the man from the food stalls nearby. True to the latest data from the official site, now a museum accessible to visitors often.
Well, it is only to be photographed against the backdrop of an old tram, which is now the entrance to the station and go back. Today we decided to visit one more clothing store C & A, which was located in the eastern part of the city, you can get there on the U-bahn. In a train, I saw a flyer on which was printed a warning on the penalty for ticketless travel, the most interesting is that it has been translated into several languages, one of which was Russian. Arriving at the correct stop Kalk Post, we do not immediately bearings, where the shop and decided to ask passers-by - again council gives us the Russian-speaking girl, will not escape the countrymen!
The choice in this branch was about the same as in another store C & A, much of a difference in the range and price was not. Enough to walk up in the mall with bags full of stuff, go to the hotel. On the way we run in REWE, to buy food. Visit grocery stores in Germany in general I really like the price of some products (chocolate, drinks, candy, beer) were much lower than Russian, and the quality, of course, higher. For a week we tried different types of cheese, local sausages packed in cans, yogurt and, of course, the local Kölsch beer.
On the night we had planned a walk to Cathedral, to see him at night. View really was spectacular, bright floodlights of the darkness snatched a massive building and the cathedral because looked even bigger than it actually is. Despite the late hour, a large number of tourists strolling along the Rhine promenade, as if it took place in the afternoon. For a week we noticed another interesting thing: Bars and cafes are full of visitors during the week, morning, evening, generally at any time. Different ages and appearance people drank beer, sitting at the slot machines, having fun and dancing. The question is: when they have time to work? Or these campers live on welfare? The answer to this riddle, we have not found it.
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