Basel Zoo

For such a small city, Basel has a beautiful zoo. They have our favorites - gorillas, lions, bears, and owls - and everything else you can imagine: giraffes, hippos, rhinos, otters, penguins, seals, zebra, fish, insects, even a great petting zoo. We are able to walk to the zoo from our apartment and had unusually great weather to do so. We spent a lot of time at the gorilla exhibit because they have so many (including a cute baby gorilla), they were very active (eating, playing and even a little love-action going on too), and they were in very close proximity to the viewers. The otters are always fun to watch and they had some birds and fish we had never seen before. They detail all of their animals on their web site - check it out! See our pictures of the Zoo here.