We took a class trip in the end of April to Wilhelma Zoo, which is a Botanical-Garden and now Zoo/Animal Park just outside of the Stuttgart Stadtmitte. Our class met around 9.00am at the gates. We were a group of about 15 students, plus our Lehrerin- Frau Irmgard.
We first went into the Botanical Gardens. They were amazing - everything ranging from flowers and wild grasses to bushes and even trees. They covered every major region of the world - the Americas, areas of Europe (Germany, France, Poland, etc), eastern Asia (Japan, China, Mongolia), Australia, and a small collection of African plants too I believe. It was quite wet and humid inside a large portion of it, and within about 20 minutes we all went back outside to walk through the zoo.
For the rest of the time at the zoo, we split up into groups of 5 or so and explored what we wanted. I stayed to watch a Sea-lion show (they fed them and did tricks all free to watch, Emily!) and then visited the monkeys, reptiles, bears and mountain lions, goats, polar bears, etc. Especially cool were the vultures being fed fresh lunch and the snowy Owl. Also really neat to see at the end were the cats of prey - including the snow leopard, tiger, cheetahs, and - my favorite - panther! I don't recall if I have ever seen a panther in a zoo before.
It was a great day in the sun, and after the class ended (about 13.00) we went back to the Stadtmitte with everyone and had a picnic with some döner kebap, music, and a beer!
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