![]() The Lower Silesian Tourist Organization responded to the attendance success of Africarium and opened a tourist information point there.įor more information, please visit the website of the Zoological Garden. The Wrocław Zoo has been included in the super league of this type of facility, and the animals have been provided with decent housing. Yes, creating this piece of black land in Wrocław cost a fortune, concrete mixers worked around the clock and waited in a long line to enter the construction site, but the end result is what counts. Thanks to this, the animals have conditions close to natural, and tourists can see that Africa is really hot. Stingrays (literally at your fingertips), penguins, crocodiles, rhinoceros and hippos have gained such an audience that they can be envied by the greatest stars of the stage.Īfrican ecosystems in Wrocław must be created artificially – a real water factory operates underground. Only in the first year, the Africarium was visited by a million people – this is how it won the first place among the biggest attractions in Wrocław. Modern pavilions and catwalks, interesting educational activities, gastronomic infrastructure – come and see for yourself why the Wrocław Zoo attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year.Īll this at the Zoo, in the Africarium presenting five ecosystems. The Africarium, open to its first visitors in 2014, is now the pearl and the greatest attraction of the Wrocław garden – turtles, sharks, penguins, hippos and dozens of other animals have been created here to accurately reproduce their African and oceanic habitats, and the entire complex has been divided into 5 ecosystems (Red Sea, East Africa, Mozambique Channel, Skeleton Coast and the jungle over the Congo River). There was a lot to celebrate – not only the huge number of zoo residents – you can see there about 10,500 individuals representing over 1,100 species, which is the third highest biodiversity result in the world – but also the creation of the world’s only themed oceanarium in the world. Open all year round, also on Sundays and holidays from 10 am till 6 pm.Made famus all over the world by the Gucwiński family, authors of the famous TV program “With a camera among animals” and long-term zoo employees, the garden in Wrocław recently celebrated its 150th birthday. In the second part, we can watch Karpacz and Śnieżka mountains with a faithfully reproduced astronomical observatory. In the centre there is the station with a replica of the Szwajcarka hostel. The Wrocław Main Square with faithfully reproduced tenement houses, the Świebodzki Railway Station and blocks of flats at ul. Visiting the Africarium takes about 1.5 -2 hours. The ticket entitles you to visit the zoo as well as the Africarium. ![]() Is open all year round with no exceptions, seven days a week, every day of the year, including Sundays and holidays. The garden is available to visitors till 8 pm from May to August and till 7 pm in other months. Africarium is located in Wroclaw, at 1 - 5 Wrblewskiego Street. Ticket offices are open from 9 am till 6 pm. After seven years of cultivation, one of the agarwood species bloomed magnificently. There are also blooming orchids, some of them unusually fragrant. It is also worth visiting greenhouses, where, among tropical plants from Asia, Africa and South America, we can see papaya or banana plants bearing tasty fruit. At this time of the year, the alpinarium with the broadest array of spring flower colours looks particularly attractive. We will be welcomed by early spring flowers, such as snowdrops, hepatica, yellow fields of winter aconites, or increasingly popular hellebores in beautiful varieties from various parts of Europe. On Monday 2 April, at 12 pm, the Botanical Garden of the University of Wroclaw will be open again after the winter break. ![]() Tickets: 4 PLN full price / 2 PLN discount price Botanical Garden The garden is open to visitors from the beginning of April till the end of October (from 9 am till 7 pm). The history of this place is over 100 years old, dating back to 1913, when the World Exhibition was held in the Centennial Hall. It is an exceptional place created out of admiration for the Japanese garden art in co-operation with specialists from the Land of the Cherry Blossoms.
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