Reinhard Mey once sang "Above the clouds, freedom must be boundless". You don't go quite that high, but the balloon you climb into is 100 metres above sea level. You'll be higher than Big Ben in London. Just a few metres from Disneyland Paris - in the

In Stuttgart, the state capital of Baden-Württemberg, you will find the Wilhelma Zoological and Botanical Gardens in the Bad-Cannstatt district. Around 11,000 animals from all over the world live here on an area of around 30 hectares. Did you know that

In 1956, the Opel Zoo in Kronberg im Taunus (Rhine-Main area) was founded by Georg von Opel as a research enclosure. The park is home to well over 200 animal species. The park is particularly proud of its keeping of the Mesopotamian fallow deer, its 2

The traditional fairground festival at Whitsun, organised by the Thüringer Schaustellerverein e.V., takes place here every year. Hermann Brill Platz, better known as the stadium forecourt, is a central car park, but is also used as a camping site.

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Under the name "Beerwah Reptile Park", a wildlife park opened on an area of just 2 hectares in Beerwah in 1970 between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. It was home to native wildlife such as monitor lizards, tiger snakes, freshwater crocodiles and

In May 2025, the seventh Karls Erlebnis-Dorf (Karls Adventure Village) opened in Loxstedt, Lower Saxony, just outside Bremerhaven. With a total area of 4.2 hectares, visitors of all ages will get their money's worth. In addition to the tractor track or

The Babylon Park indoor park has been in London since 2022. It is located in Camden Market Hawley Wharf. You don't have to pay an entrance fee and you can choose which rides you want to go on. There are machines with different coin packages. There's a

Plopsa Indoor Hasselt is a large indoor amusement park in Hasselt, Belgium, perfect for a family outing –especially on rainy days or cooler days.

The park opened on December 24, 2005, making it one of Belgium's first indoor theme parks. In an area of

The Whitsun Festival in Wissembourg (Weißenburg), Alsace, is a large and traditional folk festival that takes place every year over the Whitsun holidays. It is known for its lively mix of Alsatian tradition, French hospitality and cross-border flair, as

This year's Gesmolder Kirmes is a mixture of the new and the tried and tested, with around 130 showmen and women taking part as usual. In addition, the local innkeepers and a number of clubs have once again joined in to make the fair a complete success.