Belgrade Zoo

Belgrade Zoo or even after going in circles - Finding my way

Another hard night! People arriving at different hours in the middle of the night, turning on the light, people running through the room to get on the balcony to smoke ... and then at six in the morning a person screaming at me to get up! Me half asleep: Leave me alone, I don't belong to your group. I started to imagine ways to make him die really slow and painfully .... *Evil laugh*.

So when I then decided to make lunch in the kitchen I saw all the people sitting there and I ... escaped!!!! I went done to the shop, got me some apples and off I went.

I decided to go to the zoo as at one point - I always end up there. I knew that it was somewhere at the right side of the Kalmegdan. But I kind of got lost. I was walking along the wall as I figured, that at one point the zoo had to turn up. Well I didn't work that way, since sometimes you couldn't go on. And at one point things seemed familiar again :-). I went in circles of course :-D.

But then I found it after a while :-).

So after walking a while, I'm not totally sure if I like this zoo.

Let's evaluate:
+ Lots of animals and some I have never seen before (still don't know what they are as I cannot read the signs).
+ Cool that the zoo is integrated in an old fortress and the walls and everything ist used. E.g. there are floors in the walls for the animals to move or caves.
- Some animals look really sad and not that well cared for.
- Some animals just do not have enough space in my opinion.
- Some of the cages would need to be renovated. And most of them consist of plastic, stones and cement. There are no gras areas.

So some things made me really sad and next time I go to the zoo in Germany I won't complain about the high prices as the animals have it better there.

Still some funny/interesting things:

• Finally some "homo sapiens" behind a cage. We always knew that we are animals.
• No petting zoo, since those animals are just walking around the zoo like normal visitors. (Wondering what they pay :-)).
• Elephant following me and then when I want to take a picture - he shows me his ass.
• Two bears lying next to each other in a heart shape. So romantic!

Afterwards it started to rain. For the first time here. Now the hostel is almost empty and two AIESECers changed from another hostel to that one. One of them is a girl that studies in Heidelberg, but originally comes from somewhere close to Nürnberg.

And later tonight I will finally meet more of the inters. The reception team leader has invited us to his place.