Berlin - Graveyard

Those of you who saw my posts about Prague last year won't be surprised to hear we visited a graveyard next.

There were lots of beautiful tombs and monuments.







Some were damaged, like this statue that had no head.

There's a special story to this monument. It was made for a wealthy man who wanted a very expensive monument on his grave and he made his wife promise she would buy it for him. He wasn't faithful to his wife however, so she did buy the monument, but then didn't put his name on it, so no one would know who the monument was for.

At the Berlin Zoo

After we saw the hippos we explored the Berlin zoo a bit more.
First we saw a rhino's butt.

Tapir butt....
What's with these rude animals?

At least this camel wasn't mooning us.



Not sure what this one was doing, but he seemed to be having fun.

Next we went to see the bears, but they weren't in a mood to show themselves. If you look real close you might just see the butt of a polar bear off in the distance.

The other bears didn't even show me their butt, they just hid somewhere. But I did see this cool bear statue.

And this sign.
Hmmm... 9684 kilometer to the Los Angeles Zoo. I don't think I can walk that far.

Relatives!!!

I was very happy to run into relatives in the zoo. They were very much enjoying themselves.

And finally we saw buffalo.



The Berlin Zoo is a fun zoo, but there's a lot of rude animals I must say.

The Hippos of Berlin

On our second day in Berlin we went to the zoo.
First we wanted to see the hippos.
Flusspferde?
My owner told me that Flusspferde meant hippos, but I wasn't convinced.

At the entrance of the Flusspferde habitat there was a hippo statue though, so it might be true after all.

A Pygmee Hippo.
Seems Flusspferde are indeed hippos.

The big basin looked pretty empty of hippos though.
Maybe Flusspferde are fish...

But then a hippo appeared!

Look: the walls of the hippo habitat are made from glass so you can see the hippos walk under the water.

How cool!

You could also see them when they surfaced of course.

But to see them walk and swim under water was totally amazing.

A baby hippo.

The hippos really seemed to enjoy themselves and loved showing off to their audience.

What a great sight.
I'm glad we came to the zoo.


Next time: more animals.

Berlin - Neptunbrunnen

After all the museums we went for a walk outside and we visited the Neptunbrunnen (Neptune Fountain).



Isn't it beautiful?



Oh, a crocodile!

And a goat.



And next to the Neptunbrunnen was that weird Fernsehturm again. (Television tower)

Then we visited the Nikolai Church.

Where I spotted this pretty statue.

We also saw a church that had been damaged in World War II. They restored it a little, but not all the way.

And finally back to our hotel where I saw this cool sign. Can you guess from the picture what a Wandhydrant is?

Next up: more hippos

Berlin - Pergamon Museum: part 2

Today some more things I saw at the Pergamon museum.

This is a wall that is made out of little pieces of colored clay. Because it's very old the colors are almost gone.

Another dragon!
Looks like they never finished this one.

A stone pigs head.
The people in Babylon must have loved pigs.

This picture is especially for Jeffe:
Three bearded guys!

And a bearded guy with an animal body and wings.
I wonder if those really lived in Babylon.

This is some kind of Bird God.
He's just about to eat a pine cone.

Some very fierce lions.
The left one should brush his teeth more often.

A giant.

And look what I saw in the gift shop:
A book about a pig!
I wanted to buy it, but my owner told me I first had to learn to read German as the book is in German. *sigh*


Tomorrow pictures from our visit to the Neptunbrunnen.