Blogs from Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

I visited Weltvogelpark Walsrode on Thursday the 9th of July for the full day and for a few hours on the next morning as a stopping point whilst driving from Warsaw, Poland to the UK (where I will be for the next month before driving back again). I had very high expectations for Weltvogelpark Walsrode, largely based on the species list from Zootierliste and it didn’t disappoint at all. Weltvogelpark Walsrode is my favourite zoo that I have been to so far. Of course, the collection is very specialised, birds, birds and another helping of birds is all you will see there but what fantastic birds they are. The collection has a fantastic selection of rarities and I saw close to 200 bird species that I had never seen before (over 200 with the different subspecies ... read more

Leaving a little late today we headed off to Walsrode, the bird park Pam has been waiting for, the largest in the world, so they say and it has the Shoebill, what I reckon is the ugliest bird in the world. But before that it is off to see the monument to Hercules, say what a Greek god in Germany but I kid you not it was. We drove up there as we didn't fancy the 507 steps from the bottom. This monument was built circa 1700 and is in the process of being restored but it is a fantastic structure a huge stone edifice around 100m high and a base of maybe 100m diameter with the bronze statue of Hercules on the top. Leaving here it was off to Stockhausen the name of the town ... read more