Zoos and Parks, Frankfurt am Main

If you like to see animals then you should take a day and visit the zoo in Frankfurt. The zoo in Frankfurt has a long history, founded in 1857. Here Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernhard Grzimek used to be director before he became famous for his initiatives for the protection of wildlife in the world.

More Info:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_Frankfurt

The zoo is trying to tear down most of the old cages and enclosures for animals and to build new ones instead, as close as possible to a natural habitat. This means cutting down the number of animals to be seen, but it's better to provide the ones they have with a larger area.
A few years ago the new cat jungle was opened, now you only see the tigers when they want to be seen.Right now a new area for the bonobos is being built.
The most interesting part of the zoo is the Grzimek house, a place where nocturnal animals are kept. You walk down in this house and it's getting darker and darker, so the animals think it's night time and are actively running or flying around. This house alone merits a visit to the zoo in Frankfurt.
There are still many things to be done and changed, for example the cage where the eagle is kept seems to be far too small! As always, it's largely a question of not enough money.

Admission is 8 Euro for adults,4 Euro for children. If you go on the last Saturday of a month,it's cheaper, 6 and 3 Euro resp.

Palmer garden is a park full of troppical plants and flowers. It's open everyday untill 6:00 pm.
It's nice idea to visit there specially on Sundays, when all shopping centers are closed and city looks like a cementery!!
Opening hours of box office
November through January
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
(Gate Siesmayerstra�e 63:
until 6:00 pm)
March through October 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
(Gate Siesmayerstra�e 63:
until 8:00 pm)

Only on weekends and public holidays, the entrance Zeppelinallee is open from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Admission fee Normal (6) Special (3)
Adult 5,00Euro 7,00 Euro
Reduced (1) 2,00 Euro 2,50Euro
Families (5) 9,50 Euro 12,00 Euro
(1) For children aged 6 to 17 and students.

(3) For special events such as festivals and certain exhibitions.

(5) Two adults with children aged 6-17.

(6) Subject to change.

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The Botanical Garden - free and open to the public - is just across the street from the Palmengarten. It's run as a teaching and learning Garden for students and researchers at the world-famous Botanical Institute, which is associated with the University of Frankfurt.

You might notice hundreds of tags and labels on flowers, plants and shrubs as you are walking around. Yes, this is a educator's dream garden! But there are especially lovely examples of trees from all over the world. In the section which was dedicated to the North American temperate forest, I felt as if I were back in the States, either in Ohio or in the lower part of Michigan.

The botanical garden of Frankfurt with an impressive array of old and modern greenhouses. The tropical greenhouses give you a real "jungle experience". In my opinion the most beautiful botanical garden in Germany and one of the best worldwide - a calm oasis in the middle of a hectic city.

In Francfort you can visit the Plamengarten with its glass houses, housing plants from all over the world. One house for example contains cactis another plants of south america.
Especially in spring time, when flowers in the gardens inbetween the glass houses are blooming, it is a great experience!

Directions:

By public transport Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV):

Entrance Palmengartenstraße: trains U6, U7 or buses 32, 33, 50 to Station Bockenheimer Warte.
Entrance Siesmayerstraße: trains U6, U7 to station Westend, or bus 36 to station Siesmayerstraße.

By car:
Connection Miquelallee, Zeppelinallee, Bockenheimer Landstraße, follow signs for turn into Siesmayerstraße.
Underground car park at entrance Siesmayerstraße 63.

By coach:
Bus parking Feldbergstraße and Zeppelinallee.

(Info taken from Palmengartens webpage)

One of my favourite places to spend a day in Frankfurt is the Palmengarten. A visit is relatively inexpensive, and it is easily accessibly with the U-Bahn. As the name suggests, the Palmengarten is a large botanical garden in the city, a lush, verdant oasis of greenery, a haven for my aunt who is a botanist, as well as I! Inside, there are several large glasshouses containing wonderful rainforests, deserts full of cacti, and the most exquisite flowering shrubs. There are also often special exhibits with sculptures, carnivorous plants and the world's largest flowering plant being a few of my personal favourites from the past. Outside, there are also expansive, sweeping lawns, arboreta, lakes with their own terrapins and tortoises, the obligatory peacock or two, and several cleverly designed natural-looking sculptures.

Along the northern bank of the river main - between the bridges "Untermainbrücke" and "Friedensbrücke" lies this beautiful garden with mediterranean plants and trees, the "Nizza Gardens". It features palm trees, citrus trees and cedars and is a very nice urban oasis in the summer.