Leisure and adventure parks

Rostock Zoo is worth visiting all year round. You can go on a discovery tour in the park, experience fascinating adventures and get close up with more than 4,000 animals in more than 400 species from all over the world.

Rest and relax under old trees in more than 138 acres of wood and park area. Witness the result of the ongoing change from a former deer garden to the largest zoo along the Baltic coast, which started more than 100 years ago.
Make sure you pay a visit to the big cat enclosures with the meerkats as "lodgers", a sea bird aviary 2,500 square meters big and fully accessible for visitors, adventure playgrounds and pets' corner just to mention a few of the highlights.

In Viking times Hedeby (German: Haithabu) used to be one of the most important settlements in the north of Europe. The Hedeby Viking Museum near Schleswig exhibits numerous artefacts from archaeological excavations.

In the big ship's hall you will find a longship which was discovered in the harbour of Hedeby. The medieval city of Hedeby used to be a pulsating early trading place built in a historical semicircle. Since 2005 findings have been used to reconstruct dwellings in their original positions.
The Viking museum Hedeby is located in the south banks of the river Schlei at a place called Haddebyer Noor.
Amongst other activities the museum offers guided tours explaining both the finished and yet unfinished reconstructions of the houses.