{"id":3410,"date":"2020-06-24T09:17:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T07:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funkygermany.com\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2020-07-08T09:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T07:30:03","slug":"leipzig-zoo-gondwanaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funkygermany.com\/en\/leipzig-zoo-gondwanaland\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Trip to the Urban Jungle \u2013 Summer Guaranteed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gondwanaland at Leipzig Zoo, which includes Europe\u2019s largest tropical hall, is always worth a trip and offers warm, summer weather at any time of the year. The constant 25 degrees makes a perfect home to tropical animals and plants and found there.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grey skies above and no sign of sunshine on a cool and rainy day. A holiday would perfect right now \u2013 ideally somewhere where it\u2019s always warm and green\u2026 Germany might not immediately spring to mind, but in Saxony you\u2019ll find just such a place: Gondwanaland.<\/strong> No flights or visas are needed, just a car, a long-distance bus or train ticket and the admission fee for Leipzig Zoo, which includes Europe’s largest tropical hall. Situated close to the main train station, it can be easily reached on foot or by tram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you\u2019ve gone through the security door into the huge dome, it’s always summer. Permanent T-shirt weather at 25 degrees. <\/strong>The air is moist, just like in the real tropics. After a short walk through the dark volcano tunnel that is inhabited by nocturnal animals like lungfish and small marsupial rats, you reach the rainforest and cannot help but feel amazed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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