The Wroclaw Zoo is home to some 10,500 specimens representing more than 1,100 species – the third most biodiverse in the world – but will also see the creation of the world’s only themed oceanarium. Opened to the first guests in 2014, the Afrykarium is now the pearl and the biggest attraction of the Wroclaw Zoo – turtles, sharks, penguins, hippos and dozens of other animals have been created here with conditions that accurately reproduce their African and oceanic habitats, and the entire complex has been divided into 5 ecosystems:

1. Red Sea
A coral reef ecosystem has been created in a reservoir of one million liters of water, where more than 60 species of beautiful, colorful fish can be admired.

2 East Africa Here we meet, among others, Nile hippos, which move underwater with great grace. Next door live unusual anteaters often mistaken for South American anteaters and a colony of chars – unusual rodents that arouse great interest. Further on are two aquariums with endemic fish from the Great Rift Lakes of Africa – Tanganyika and Malawi, as well as some of the world’s smallest antelope, the dikdiki.

3. Mozambique Canal
Its biggest attraction is an 18-meter clear acrylic tunnel that allows you to admire green turtles, sharks, stingrays, as well as other fish species.

4. Skeleton Coast
The inhabitants of this zone are African cats (often mistaken for seals) and Cape penguins (a.k.a. drowned penguins), as well as jellyfish, moray eels, and interesting fish species such as fiddlerfish.

5 The Congo River Jungle
The jungle surrounding the Congo River is home to crocodiles and manatees – unusual herbivorous mammals also known as mermaids. They are joined by numerous species of birds.

Modern pavilions and enclosures, interesting educational activities, catering infrastructure – come and see for yourself why Zoo Wroclaw attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year.

All this at the Zoo, on the grounds of the Afrykarium presenting five ecosystems. In the first year alone, one million people visited the Afrykarium – that’s how it won the palm of primacy among Wroclaw’s biggest attractions. And the stingrays (they’re literally at your fingertips), penguins, crocodiles, rhinos and hippos have gained such an audience that the biggest stage stars might envy them.

African ecosystems in Wroclaw have to be created artificially – there is a veritable water factory underground. As a result, animals have conditions close to natural, and tourists can see that Africa really is hot. Yes, the creation of this piece of black land in Wroclaw cost a fortune, concrete mixers worked around the clock and waited in a long queue to enter the construction site, but it’s the end result that counts. This one is stunning. The Wroclaw Zoo has made it to the super league of such facilities, and the animals have been provided with a decent home.

Wrocław Zoo – Zoological Garden and Africanarium

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