Hanover Zoo, Zoo in the Zoo district, Hannover, Germany
Hanover Zoo covers 22 hectares in the Zoo district of Hannover and is laid out as seven theme worlds along a 5-kilometre explorer path. Zambezi recreates an African savannah with an artificial river, where visitors ride small boats past flamingos, giraffes and rhinos. Gorilla Mountain rises at the highest point of the grounds, and Yukon Bay is entered through an old mine shaft, with polar bears visible in the hull of the sunken "Yukon Queen".
The zoo was founded in 1865 by private investors and is one of the oldest in Germany. Major renovations happened in the 1990s and shaped how the place looks today.
Meyer's Farm is built from seven old Lower Saxony half-timbered buildings, some dating from before the 19th century, moved to the zoo and re-erected there. They now house rare old domestic breeds such as red and white Husum protest pigs, Pomeranian rough-wool sheep and Exmoor ponies. In the Christmas season the farm is decorated as part of the Winter-Zoo.
A 5-kilometre explorer path links the seven theme worlds, starting at the Zambezi trading post, where visitors board small boats for a roughly ten-minute river trip before continuing on foot. The seasonal Winter-Zoo decorates Meyer's Farm, Mollywoop and Yukon Bay with ice-skating, ice curling and tobogganing.
In the Zambezi world, visitors board small boats for a roughly ten-minute ride along an artificial river past giraffes, rhinoceroses and flamingos, then continue on foot to the lions, hippos and pelicans. The boats are the only way to cross this stretch of the savannah setting.
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