fasanerie wiesbaden again & zoo erfurt

fasanerie wiesbaden again & zoo erfurt - animal maniac.

i have forgotten a few pictures in my last post, haha. the first seven pictures were still shot in the fasanerie wiesbaden. the other pictures are from my visit to the erfurt zoo in the middle of june when i visited my parents on short notice. yeah, i love me some animals.

big pig in the mud.

little mouflon baby.

big mouflon.

sleeping racoon.

racoon dogs. they are equally as good as normal racoons :P

swimming coypu! they may be one of my most favourite animals in the park :)

grooming itself :)

erfurt zoo.

we visited the zoo because of an event that takes place throughout summer: tropical nights. the zoo is open until 11 or 12 pm & everywhere are stages with street artists performing all kinds of shows, like belly dance, african music & many more things. it is quite an interesting atmosphere. plus you can see what zoo animals are doing in the night - some of them get really active :)

the lions were really photogenic this time :)

most favourite lion tongue :)

the ring-tailed lemurs had a baby! it was so fragile.

optical illusion.

domestic yaks have quite a lot of fur.

we walked this trail for the very first time! a shame! all these years we didn't know that this nature trail existed but when we went past the bisons it suddenly was there. of course we had to see what we had been missing out on. it was very quiet out there and we learned a lot about trees & bushes, flowers & nature.

and we had the pleasure of getting to know this perfect erfurt panorama. what a sight! almost as good as the view from the petersberg mountain in erfurt city.

they are building a new elephant residence & and i'm so excited to see the outcome :) later that evening we visited the old elephant facility & i realized again that they are such sensible & kind animals. they have really expressive eyes.

belly dancers.

fast little harvest mice.

can you spot the chameleon?

i'm sure you can spot it here :) notice the ringtail :)

oh, i guess you have to search some more!

i love camouflage games! spot the stick insect :)

a hiding short-eared elephant shrew. curious little things.

mission golden-eyed tree frogs :)

snakey snake. a russian rat snake.

i love these tails quite a lot.

a western beared anole.

to close this beautiful evening they had a light show finale. not your average firework :)

november: kickelhahn, himmelblau & weimar cemetery.

i had a week off in november and visited my parents ( as i often do on my vacations ). on a sunday morning we headed to the thuringian forest to climb onto the peak of the kickelhahn mountain. the kickelhahn mountain is the landmark mountain of the city of ilmenau . johann wolfgang von goethe , the famous writer & philosopher, often visited ilmenau and also climbed the kickelhahn. oftentimes he stopped at a little hut in the woods to relax for a while and on one of these stops he wrote one of his most known poems. our little adventure didn't last the whole day, though, as we had a little date with the weimar cemetery to look after the grave of my grandparents and then to visit my cousin and his family. tiny peek onto the kickelhahn tower. thuringian woods - deep dark green. at the goethe hut. this plate shows the german version of the poem goethe wrote here. inside the hut. and here's the english translation. i love this poem so much, as ...

in the forests.

it's that time of the year again.

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

ghost of nature.

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