The Best Zoo Abroad; The Best of Stay, Stray, Play and Feast

The Best Zoo Abroad

The Berlin Zoological Garden

The Best of Stay,Stray, Play and Feast

First Anniversary Posts

(Series 10)

Next to theme parks and museums,

visiting a zoo is a must for family

traveling with children.

 

It is a place where kids

can relax and play,

 

...appreciate nature,

… and see the animals from

faraway lands that they might

not get a chance to see in their lifetime.

Of all the zoos that we have visited

in the past from our previous travels,

…we consider the Berlin Zoo

as the best and the most beautiful

in the world.

The Berlin Zoological Garden

 or Zoologischer Garten Berlin

is the oldest zoo in Germany,

…and it is also one of the oldest zoos

in the world as it  opened in 1844.

Visiting the zoo is a feast for the senses 

as it is has so many breathtakingly beautiful

natural attractions  like lovely forests

 

...with trees showing the beautiful 

hues of autumn, 

…scenic rivers,

…and rustic ponds.

It also had man made attractions

like beautiful manicured gardens,

…. glorious water fountains,

… bucolic playgrounds that

the kids got to enjoy.

 

…every nook and cranny of Berlin Zoo

is beautiful and photogenic that

you would want to take photos everywhere.

I could run out of superlatives if

go on raving endlessly about the zoo…

…and it is an understatement to describe

the zoo as the most beautiful in the words.

And I almost forgot- that this is animal sanctuary 

of more than 1,500 different species 

and around 17,500 animals found in the zoo…

…and has one the zoos with most comprehensive

collection of species in the world.

 

 

  For Stay, Stray, Play and Feast, and based

on our personal experience- 

The Berlin Zoological Garden

is the Best  Zoo in the World

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 Best Culinary Destination Abroad (Series 3) 

Best Culinary Destination in the Philippine (Series 4) 

Best Family Hotel Abroad (Series 5) 

Best Family Hotel in the Philippines (Series 6) 

Best Museum Abroad (Series 7) 

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 Best Zoo Abroad (Series 11) 

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The Best Museum Abroad: The Best of Stay, Stray, Play and Feast

The Best Museum Abroad: 

Anne Frank House, Amsterdam

The Best of Stay, Stray, Play and Feast
First Anniversary Posts
(Series 7)

 Next to theme parks, museums are a must visit

whenever we travel in the country and abroad.

We have been so many museums outside the country

and some of the best conglomeration of kids' friendly

museums are the The National  Mall in Washington D.C.

Source: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4301117

New York and Boston are also home to some

of the most wonderful museums in the world.

Paris, France is where one of the greatest museums

in the world is found- the Louvre, that houses hundreds

of art works done by some of the world’s greatest artists.

It is also home to breathtaking Versailles 
that showcases the excesses of Marie-Antoinette,
 Austrian princess and wife of Louis XVI, 



....the most fascinating  figure in the history of Versailles
 that attracted the scorn of public that led to her

tragic beheading  during the French Revolution.

How can one ever forget the largest archaeological museum

in Greece? The great Greek Archeological Museum,
one of the most important museums in the world

that houses  thousands of priceless  ancient Greek art.

 

Berlin has its own Museum Island that hosts

about five magnificent museums and it's worth

mentioning  Pergamon Museum that houses original-sized,

reconstructed monumental buildings of the Pergamon Altar

…and the Marker Gate of Miletus, excavated

and transported  from Turkey and painstakingly

rebuilt piece by piece in Pergamon Museum.

Another famous museum in Berlin’s Museum Island

is the Neues Museum ("New Museum")

that houses ancient Egyptian artifacts including

the burial chamber of Queen Nefertiti.

The Vietnam War Museum in Ho Chi Minh City

gave us a glmpse of the dreaded Vietnam War

on the Vietnamese people's standpoint. 

 

There are still other celebrated museums

that we have visited in other countries

but the one that gave us an unforgettable

a poignant emotional impact

was the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

No photography was allowed inside the

museum so I’m borrowing most of the

museums photos from their webpage.

The Anne Frank House located at the

Prinsengracht Canal in Amsterdam, 



...is a museum dedicated to a teenage

 Jewish  girl, who hid with her family

from Nazi persecution,



…and wrote her touching experiences

in hiding on her journal.

They hid in this house for more than two years

until someone is the household betrayed them

and tipped their hiding place to the Nazi.

Source: http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Frank/Not-outside-for-2-years/-The-Secret-Annex/

They were arrested, and deported to their deaths

in concentration camps and only Otto Frank

the father, survived the war.

 
Source: http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Frank/Not-outside-for-2-years/-The-Secret-Annex/

After the war, Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam,

and his faithful assistant Meip Geis gave him

Anne's diaries and journals, that was found

in the house after his family were captured.

 

Source: http://www.annefrank.org/en/News/News/2009/Archive-of-Anne-Franks-family-/

He subsequently compiled selections

into a book published in Dutch in 1947

that became the world’s best sellers of all time.

 

Visiting the Anne Frank House

is a heartbreaking experience,

Source: http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Frank/Not-outside-for-2-years/Hiding/

…that leaves guests with a lump in the throat

after coming face to face- of the misery

brought about by a senseless and violent war.



We first visited this museum when

my eldest daughter was about six years old

and we posed  at the museum entrance

 and she pointed out what she thought

was a wrong spelling of Huis, 

a Dutch term for House.

 

We returned about eight years later,
this time with my younger son Timothy  

doing the same: Look  Pa Wrong Spelling



 For Stay, Stray, Play and Feast, and based

on our personal experience-  Anne Frank Museum

is the  Best Museum Abroad

Read My Other Blogs on The Best of 

Stay, Stray, Play and Feast Series

Best Family Vacation Destination Abroad (Series 1)

Best Family Vacation Destination in the Philippines (Series 2)

 Best Culinary Destination Abroad (Series 3) 

Best Culinary Destination in the Philippine (Series 4) 

Best Family Hotel Abroad (Series 5) 

Best Family Hotel in the Philippines (Series 6) 

Best Museum Abroad (Series 7) 

Best Museum in the Philippines (Series 8)

 Best Restaurant Destination  Abroad (Series 9) 

Best Restaurant Destination in Bicol (Series 10)

 Best Zoo Abroad (Series 11) 

Best Zoo in the Philippines (Series 12)