Zoo Revue: Vogel Park Marlow
Vogel
Park Marlow. This place is great! Our friends have been encouraging us
to come for ages and finally put us in their car and drove us there to prove
they were right all along.
Vogel Park Marlow has intriguing and large interactive bird areas with friendly
birds of all kinds, a darling petting zoo (pigs, goats, sheep, etc.), a monkey
habitat one can walk THROUGH, and, best of all according to my children (ages
11 and 9), playgrounds that satisfy every need for climbing, pretending, and
adventure; even the adults are hoping some child will "need assistance" so
they have an excuse to climb the towers, swing across the bridges, and find
the way.
Although my children were enthralled by the animals, they could not tear themselves
away from the playground once we stumbled upon one. Parents: bring
a newspaper or whatever guidebook you have been wanting to read and a thermos
of something pleasant to sip.
If
you manage before the playground is discovered, there are also other animals
(for example, otters) and one can be part of their activities. Can climb through
underground tunnels and pop one's head up in a prairie dog town (under a glass
dome, thankfully). One can feed the birds "cocktails.” The grounds provide
encouraging habitats and even the sensitive adults who don't like zoos for
the most part, like me, forget to feel sorry for all the animals and birds.
There are wagons to pull tired children in, plenty of restrooms, food booths
along the way and a restaurant.
We will have to return. (Zoo is about 33 km East of Rostock)