More than just a day's outing for children, the Leipzig Zoo is among Germany's best, where 850 different animal species live in habitats very close to their natural homes.
Here, you can watch through an underwater glass wall as elephants swim, be greeted by the calls of black howler monkeys, see penguins play, look for alligators in the murky re-creation of the Everglades and find shy koalas lazing in their own eucalyptus forest.
In tropical environments, meet Germany's only Komodo Dragon - a lizard that can grow up to three meters long, drift in a boat through a rainforest inhabited by 100 exotic animal species, walk jungle paths, or get a bird's-eye view across the lush green canopy from the treetop trail.
