Life with MK: Exploring Berlin

This morning I went off to explore the city with little to no direction. I saw a flyer about a large flea market in Mauerpark, so I ignited that was as good a place as any to begin. I set out to walk to the flea market and made it there with no wrong turns!

The market was way cooler than I thought. If it didn't cost so much to ship things over seas I probably would have made a few purchases for my new condo in Michigan. I got some lunch and some amazing fresh squeezed orange juice and just wandered through the markets.

On the way out of the market and on the way to the S-bahn station (I refuse to take the U-bahn because I get note S-bahn free with my rail pass) I stumbled across the old Berlin wall. I spent a good amount of time strolling along and reading the various blurbs. I need to read more about the whole division of East and West Germany later I think. It was pretty cool and I enjoyed reading about it and seeing a bit of the old wall that divided the city for so many years. To bad David Hasselhoff wasn't there to sing! Haha.

I centrally got to the S-bahn station and hopped on the train to the Zoo! The Berlin zoo is supposed to be one of the best in the world, and since I have a weakness for zoos I couldn't resist! It was a pretty awesome place. The fort thing I saw when I walked in was three huge Indian elephants (and later on saw there were at least three times as many). I also happened to stumble across feeding time for the monkeys and apes. The squirrel monkeys were hilarious. One had a bird it was eating and all the other ones were chasing it around and trying I steal it. I also got to see the big cat feeding time. In the big cat room there was the cutest baby ocelot being drug around by the neck by its mother an there were three baby jaguars. If you haven't noticed in my posts by now, I have a major weakness for baby animals. There were definitely enough to appease me at the zoo today. I have decided late spring is absolutely the best time of year for a zoo visit. The zoo overall was great, and if I listed everything this post would be A. long and B. insanely boring. So I will move on.

After the zoo I was thoroughly exhausted after eight hours on my feet, so I took the S-bahn back to Alexanderplatz and walked back to the hostel, where I am now. Fun times!