Leipzig: Day 1

Zoo

Church

Today we toured Leipzig, the city where we are staying.  We went to the zoo, and saw animals from all around the world.  There where fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and some animals that I never knew existed including garden eels which are eels that bury the lower half of their body in the sand and the rest of them sticks out into the water.


After the zoo, we saw downtown Leipzig, and the highlight was Saint Nikolai Church
where, in 1989, the peaceful demonstrations against the socialist government of East Germany began (East Germany was part of the Eastern Block led by the Soviet Union).  The protests spread to the rest of East Germany, which eventually caused the Berlin wall to fall. This symbolized the reunification of East and West Germany.