triceratops
One day, we were sitting in a cafe enjoying coffee and tea when Adi leaned over and asked, “Have you seen the dinosaurs at the zoo?” Haha. What?! Sarajevo hosted the World of Dinosaurs exhibition for a couples of weeks this February. The exhibition includes over 50 life-sized reconstructions of dinosaurs and other extinct animals. A German palaentologist created the replicas in Hannover, and they travel as an exhibition all over the world. Adi, Megan and I visited the zoo right after the huge snow storm, and it was a lot of fun. The exhibition was outside, so it was even more interesting than I thought it would be. I felt like I was in a mix between The Land Before Time and Ice Age.
mammoth
The exhibit includes all kinds of dinosaurs and some animals from the Paleolithic period. Each one had a little sign next to it explaining what it was called, how big it was, and what it ate. Of course, this was all in Bosnian. It was quite astounding to stand next to the them though. In other museums, you can't really get the sense of the size of the animal because the bones are roped off. However, at this exhibition, the whole point was to stand directly under it or even put your hand in its mouth. Of course, lots of silly poses for pictures ensued. Nothing encourages your inner child quite like the combination of dinosaurs and snow.
Of course, there were living animals at the zoo as well, but quite honestly, I went there for the dinosaurs, hehe.
A new friend
holding claws with the T-rex
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