WGT - Thursday
After arriving in Leipzig on a quite soppy Wednesday we delayed our first trip to the city to Thursday. It was quite cold so we put on our jackets and headed for the Zoo. In a great coincidence a new area was opened to the public that day, so we enjoyed a lot of new animal habitats such as the different environments of South America as well as the Himalayan Mountains. Here we discovered a sleeping snow leopard lying on his back right next to a big window. We were only two or three centimeters of glass apart, wow! I really like the new approach in designing enclosures where the natural environment of the animals is displayed and the fences are no longer made from iron rods or gratings but shaped by glass, rocks, dried or watered moats. Also the animals have lots of possibilities to hide – which apparently was no option for our leopard :)
As the evening hours started, we were drawn to the Agra – the festival-compound. All together the scene members formed a quiet and ceremonial procession, standing in line to change red tickets to rosy wristbands. And then – finally – we entered the Land of Goth and Mead, yay! The rest of the night contained lots and lots of mead, the loss of my beloved bat ring but also the cheerful meeting with friends and dancing at the Treffen-Café. Through the silent city we walked the few kilometers back to our pension - drunk on joy.
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