Magdeburg is home to Germany's oldest folk festival, the Herbstmesse. It was first mentioned in 1010 and has had different names over the years. In the end it was simply the "Herbstmesse".

In Augustusburg, Saxony, about 10 km southwest of Freiberg, 17 km east of Chemnitz, you will find the Augustusburg Rost's Wiesn leisure centre. In the cold season, the leisure centre and its location are popular with skiers, cross-country skiers,

The Magdeburg Zoological Garden is beautifully laid out in a 20-hectare park. In this zoo about 900 animals from 200 species have a home. The animals come from all five continents and there is much to discover. Children up to 15 years have free admission

Over the years, the Martinimarkt in Pforzheim-Brötzingen has developed from an originally ambitious district festival into a firmly established and regionally popular folk festival, which is perceived by many as Pforzheim's ‘second fair’. The event

Meifoor Brugge is a folk festival that dates back as far as the year 1200. Indeed, in that year an International Annual Fair was organised in Bruges for the first time. Meifoor Brugge takes place in the city centre at locations including Koning Albert

In the north-east of the US state of Pennsylvania, you will find Kalahari Resorts & Conventions Poconos, which was built in July 2015 in the middle of the forest. Named after the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa, the resort is decorated with statues of

In Delbrück-Schöning in the district of Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia, 21 kilometres south-east of Gütersloh and also 21 kilometres north-west of Paderborn, you will find the privately run Nadermann Zoo, which opened in 1967. Today, you will

The amusement park on the Bärenwiese is the place to be if you want to go high up. Numerous exciting attractions such as bumper cars, a Ferris wheel and a carousel await you. And there's plenty to eat and drink at the large market. Here you can browse

Just a handful of kilometres from Poland in the north-east of the Czech Republic lies this alpine adventure world. About 180 km east of Prague and about 118 km from Brno, Bobová Dráha Pastviny offers an alpine coaster over 700 metres long, pedal boats

The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium is one of the most famous and impressive aquariums in the world. It is located in Ocean Expo Park in Motobu on the Japanese island of Okinawa and was opened in 2002. The name Churaumi is composed of the Okinawan word chura