Day 5

We woke up & unfortunatly Jai had come down with a cold. But im really glad he managed to get out for the day as we ended up going to the aquarium!! Before that we headed to the bombed out church which is also at Zoo station to see the inside of it, but we just picked up some postcards & left as it was pretty crouded in there & Jai didn't feel too well. The aquarium was packed with kids! But I was too excited to care too much as I saw JELLYFISH!!! I LOVE jellyfish. I am so fascinated with them. I could just sit there for hours and hours watching the way they move about the water. It is extremly hard to bread jellyfish as you will read down below (I took a photo of the Jellyfish breeding information) I really enjoyed myself watching all the beautiful fish, coral & seahorses and such :)
NOTE: I should probably warn that the kids are really quite loud in the videos. So do a quick sound check before you watch them so you dont get blasted in the ears!! 



I loved all the stalls piled up with food in Berlin. Even at the icecream places the icecream was piled up and stacked high.







I love these guys. Its so relaxing watching them.





























Not sure what type this jellyfish is. But I find these ones really relaxing. They dont usually move as fast as the other smaller ones. Its moe like a piece of that green frilly seaweed you find at the beach.























It was so interesting watch these ones. They were all at the bottom of the tank then as soon as one went up to the top the rest of them did and they just stayed there getting all tangled up.





































Im pretty sure these little guys are the Bearded Dragon..













A little chameleon!



Its hard to tell but they are all over the leaves.











Whats up the web.....?



This is one of Australias spiders!













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Tour 2 – From the Flak Towers to the Mounts of Debris.

This is from the website about the tour:

In 1940, Hitler ordered the construction of six anti-aircraft, or “Flak” towers to defend Berlin from enemy aircraft. Of these six, only three were built, and after the war they were “demilitarized” – or blown up, however the Flak tower in Humboldthain park in Gesundbrunnen was only partially destroyed.
Since April 2004 we have been leading groups through the interior of the tower. On this fascinating tour, visitors will be shown two of the seven floors of one of the biggest bunkers in the city. Here a dazzling underground landscape awaits – complete with dizzying views into the depths of the building. In addition, our guides present in-depth information about the history of the structure and the still on-going project to clean it up. To date, members of the Berlin Underworlds Association have spent a total of over 8,000 hours removing over 1,400 cubic metres of rubble – and have created in the process ideal sleeping quarters for bats. Therefore, so as not to disturb their hibernation and unnecessarily frighten our guests, we only offer this tour from April to the end of October.







These smaller images inside the actual flak tower I found on the internet as there was no photography allowed inside the building.









You can see how the roof of one of the lower floors has completly collapsed and is basically hanging there.















The view of Berlin from the top of the flak tower.









The park we had to work through to get to the top where the flak tower is.



We walked along a creepy looking path all the way up to the top of the hill.





This is called the Victory Column. It is a famous monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), giving the statue a new purpose.







Some postcards I collected on our travels.