The swimming hippo
Its full weight above your glass.
Barbara Maliszewska — CC BY-SA 3.0 pl · Dariusz Panasiuk — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Aw58 — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Aw58 — CC BY-SA 4.0
The honest family arithmetic: the Africarium two and a half hours (with feeding shows), the mother zoo three by selection, not completion — six hours with an inside lunch is the day — the rest for the fountain across the street at dusk. In winter, a half-day centred on Africarium and indoor pavilions: Poland's first rain option.
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Wroclaw Zoo is the most visited in all Poland — with a landmark without planetary second: the Africarium (2014), the black oceanic building devoted exclusively to Africa's aquatic life — alone in its idea worldwide: Red Sea reefs, a hippo swimming above the glass, Nile crocodiles, a Mozambique Channel shark tunnel, Namibian sea lions and penguins — a water continent under one roof. The mother zoo (1865, Poland's oldest) spreads thirty-five hectares and ten thousand animals: an Odrarium, historic Asian-temple pavilions, the savanna plain — a full family day never finished by half. It literally neighbours the Centennial Hall (one tram from the centre) — so the family day's great set: zoo and Africarium by day, the Multimedia Fountain at dusk. Book online in summer and come early: the Africarium queues internally by noon.
Its full weight above your glass.
The Mozambique Channel overhead.
Historic Asian temples as houses.
Wróblewskiego 1-5, 51-618 Wroclaw