Germany – Berlin

The Charlottenberg Palace was extraordinary for sure.

 

The ceramic room was right over the top,  as was the castle chapel.

 

Interesting the lengths that were taken to fabricate a line of succession when none existed but money was available to deceive people into believing there was and it succeeded.

 

While John visited a museum I visited the Berlin zoo. After seeing so many animals in the wild I had a different impression of a zoo. These animals have been born in captivity. They are well cared for, don’t have to worry about the elements, hunting for food or being hunted for food. They are not alone and their home areas were pretty spacious, if you compare then to the Calgary zoo, when we were children, where the tigers were in a small concrete cages and just paced back and forth.  The zoo helps to preserve species that are being endangered like the rhino, the one animal we never saw in Kruger.