{"id":360,"date":"2019-09-05T18:51:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T18:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buenzliburg.ch\/ontheroadagain\/?p=360"},"modified":"2020-05-02T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T18:34:00","slug":"where-is-the-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buenzliburg.ch\/ontheroadagain\/2019\/09\/05\/where-is-the-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Fish?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Destination: Aquatis.ch, Lausanne (Switze<\/strong><\/em>rland) <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travel Diary:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had some very dear visitors from our very dear home country, and therefore decided to do something special over the weekend. We had autocratically chosen the destination area beforehand, me and my husband, but now we were discussing what to do once we reach the destination. We were aiming at Lake Geneva area, and I (of course!) had all the ideas ready. Some nature destinations would be fun<\/em>, said my mother. History!<\/em> Said my dear husband. Swimming!<\/em> Shouted our little princess. Meanwhile little Prince Charming was driving over and around the participants of our little conversation with his toy cars. I would like to visit an aquarium<\/em>, said my brother, who had so far been the silent member of our conversation. We all fell silent. Yes, why not. But is there an aquarium in the area? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It turned out there was one in Lausanne, called Aquatis<\/a>. A quite big one, actually. The largest freshwater aquarium-vivarium in Europe. So we settled the program for one day. Getting there, visiting the aquarium and later settling in to our accommodation. At this point little Prince Charming\u2019s favorite truck fell of the couch breaking into pieces\u2026 and the conversation was over. Time for some preparations. And sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We arrived at Aquatis shortly after lunch time and parked our car into a huge Parkhouse. Besides the aquarium there was a hotel and one (or two?) restaurants in the building. Where\u2019s the Fish?<\/em><\/strong> asked my little Prince Charming and ran around the corridors in the building, without seeing any. But he didn\u2019t care. Punching the elevator buttons and running around wildly after a few hours in the car was definitely fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We paid our\nentrance fee, which was a whole lot of money, and walked up the stairs entering\nthe dark hallways with some cool projector shows projected on the roof, floor\nand the ceilings. Waterfalls, lakes and rivers\u2026 it looked pretty amazing. Where\u2019s\nthe Fish?<\/em><\/strong> asked my mother without realizing she was standing right in\nfront of a monstrous water tank where they had some really BIG fish swimming\naround. Still don\u2019t know what they were but trust me, you don\u2019t want to run\ninto those while swimming in the lake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aquatis was\nreally a pleasant experience. They use projectors and lighting in between the\nbig aquariums to create atmosphere and give information. I naturally couldn\u2019t\nconcentrate on reading and watching everything. You know, the almost-three-year-old\nhanging along. He loved the fish and everything with shades of blue, but his\nconcentration is just not THAT mature yet. But we did see plenty of cool-shaped\nand cool-colored fish plus other creatures who more or less live in the water.\nWe also did see plenty of snakes, lizards, frogs and so on. My sweet little\nprincess even spotted a purple frog!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where\u2019s the Fish?<\/em><\/strong> asked my dear husband and was\npretending to swim through a glass-made tunnel that went under a big tank full\nof water. I guess the fish were sleeping, or located elsewhere. Around the tunnel\nthe water was empty. But then we spotted something that didn\u2019t (in my opinion!)\nquite fit in. There was a monstrous roaring model dragon up in the ceiling. The\nkids were of course scared to walk under it. Why did they have to spoil the whole place with something so\nunrealistic\u2026? <\/em>I wondered while escorting my little ones forward. Maybe\nthere was an idea behind the dragon, but it sure escaped me. But then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s the Fish!<\/em><\/strong> Screamed my sweet little Princess\nstaring at a diver inside of one of the water tanks. Our jaws dropped, because it\nlooked hilarious. Poor man was just washing the glass walls of the water tanks,\nbut it almost looked like it was a part of the show. The kids waved at him and\nhe waved back. I was wondering how long can he actually stay under water\nwithout an oxygen bottle. He didn\u2019t seem to be in a hurry\u2026 and he was\ndefinitely being photographed more than any other fish in the whole aquarium! (Somehow\nwe were the only ones who managed to skip taking pictures of this magnificent\nfish\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our round\nwas almost over. We still walked through a rainforest which was naturally hot\nand moist. My dear husband found his favorite fish, a ray, from the Rainforest\nRiver. And there was still the souvenir shop. Seriously, did you ever survive\nthrough a souvenir shop full of soft toys with two kids? Without buying\nanything? I assure you, we can make a zoo out of soft toys in our house\u2026 on our\nway out we spotted some WATER and some jets of water and my sweet little kids\ninstantly turned into fish<\/em><\/strong>. Why\nnot?<\/em> I thought, acknowledging that they would get wet\u2026 so we sat down and\nenjoyed some cold drinks from the restaurant while kids were amusing themselves\nand getting wet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And how did\nmy brother, the father of the whole idea, liked the aquarium? He didn\u2019t say\nthat much. But I think he enjoyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some Tips for planning your visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Visit Aquatis on Monday if you can. They have something called Happy Mondays, which means reduced entrance fee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* If you go\nwith little kids, you need approximately two hours to go through the venue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Bring\nextra set of clothes and a towel for the kids in case they turn into fish like\nmine did\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Want to make the most out of your stay? Unlike me, read the WORLD-part<\/a> from their website before you go. It even explained the dragon (or was it a dinosaur\u2026?)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Destination: Aquatis.ch, Lausanne (Switzerland) Travel Diary: We had some very dear visitors from our very dear home country, and therefore decided to do something special over the weekend. We had autocratically chosen the destination area beforehand, me and my husband, but now we were discussing what to do once we reach the destination. We were …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[44,14,46,45],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-switzerland","category-family","tag-exploring-switzerland","tag-family","tag-switzerland","tag-traveling","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buenzliburg.ch\/ontheroadagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buenzliburg.ch\/ontheroadagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buenzliburg.ch\/ontheroadagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buenzliburg.ch\/ontheroadagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buenzliburg.ch\/ontheroadagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/buenzliburg.ch\/ontheroadagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/buenzliburg.ch\/ontheroadagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buenzliburg.ch\/ontheroadagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buenzliburg.ch\/ontheroadagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buenzliburg.ch\/ontheroadagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}