Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Knutenborg Park

Today was a crazy day. I did many things. The first thing I did was going to a graveyard, and see the grave of my father’s grandparents. I never met them. I guess I knew they existed, but I've never thought of them... I spent most of the time looking for cool names. I noticed there was a lot with the last name of Rasmussen. That was scary. I also found the oldest grave was from 1877, and they newest from 9 days ago. I then went into the church (all church's in Denmark have a graveyard). After the Church, we drove to a place called Knutenborg Park. This is a zoo. Only thing, there aren't any fences. Well, I guess there are fences. They separate different areas. The animals are not confined from the visitor, other than the visitor’s cars. This is really fun, because it means giraffes can cross right in front of your car on the road. This was cool, until the rhinos (which are as big as our car) walked near us. That was kind of scary. Another thing we say in the park was Arctic Wolves. They were not very active, but there was a really cute cub just like 4 meters from our car. We went to a place where we weren't allowed to be in our car anymore, but had to ride a special train, because the monkeys in the enclosure would tear our car apart. From the bus we could feed the monkeys as we drove through. This was fun. Later, we went into a lemur enclosure. This place we could walk, and was really cool because the lemur was right there. Later we drove passed into a tiger enclosure. This was the coolest of all. The tigers are so big, and they walked right on the road. It was very cool. I really thought they were interesting, and a lot of fun to look at. On the way out, we say the namesake of the park. The name came from a castle, which once stood, on the park grounds. This castle was called Knutenborg Slot (slot is the Danish word for castle)
After this, we left the island of Lolland, and drove to another island called Fyn. This required going on a ferryboat, and over two bridges. I now stay in Fyn for 3 nights, and then move on. 

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