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Saturday, June 24, 2017
8 Jun 2017 - Copenhagen Day 3: The Tower of Christiansborg Palace
After we were back to the city, we walked towards Christiansborg Palace and visited its Tower, which we missed on our first day here.
Standing at 106 metres, the Christiansborg Palace Tower is the highest tower in Copenhagen. It offers a magnificent view of the city's rooftops.
It is free to access the tower. There is a lift from the entrance to the top of the tower but there may be a queue as there is limited space at the top.
8 Jun 2017 - Copenhagen Day 3: Den BlÄ Planet National Aquarium
After a good breakfast, we took the Aquarium Shuttle – Blue Line from the Vesterbrogade 6 bus stop. The bus ride to the aquarium was about 30mins, and there was commentary available on the landmarks we passed along the way.
The aquarium is divided into 8 sections and features around 50 aquariums and installations.
There was also a big screen near the entrance of the aquarium featuring the underwater world. Upon downloading the aquarium app, we could hunt and acquire fish parts along the exhibits. With the fish parts, we could create and “release” our fish creations into the underwater world. The kids had fun doing this and went around hunting for new fish parts.
Below were some of the amazing marine life that we saw in the aquarium.
At the Warm Ocean section, we arrived at the largest aquarium in Blue Planet, the 4,000,000-litre Ocean tank. It is home to sharks (zebra shark, blacktip reef shark, wobbegongs and young scalloped hammerheads), stingrays, eagle rays, guitarfish, moray eels, golden trevallies, groupers and more that can be seen through the 16 by 8 m (52 by 26 ft) main window, which is 45 cm (18 in) thick.
There is also a 16 m (52 ft) long shark tunnel.
We had wanted to see Puffins in Iceland but due to the wet weather, we had seen none. Never did we expect to see Puffins in this aquarium, and at close range. :-)
We spent the whole morning at the aquarium and had the leftover donuts for snacks before heading back to the city.
Den Bla Planet National Aquarium is Northern Europe’s largest aquarium, home to thousands of animals and 7 million litres of water.
Other than aquarium with all the beautiful sea creatures, there are quite a number of interactive displays as well.
The main purpose of the aquarium is to disseminate marine information, help science projects, and help improve educational institutions. As such, there were various presentation conducted by the aquarium staff to the visitors.
8 Jun 2017 - Copenhagen Day 3: Breakfast at Andersen Bakery
We read many reviews on the delicious pastries at the Andersen Bakery and decided to have our breakfast there.
Below were what we had for breakfast.
The kids did not want to have pastries, so they bought half a dozen of their favorite donuts from the dunkin donuts outlet at the Central Station.
There were many choices and they all looked good!
7 Jun 2017 - Copenhagen Day 2: Tivoli Gardens
Tivoli Gardens is a famous amusement park and pleasure garden in Copenhagen, Denmark. The park opened on 15 August 1843 and is the second-oldest operating amusement park in the world. Our 1st stop at Tivoli Gardens was the gourmet popcorn stall near the entrance. We bought 2 large bags of flavored popcorn – cotton candy and lime. Javier loved the cotton candy flavored popcorn and finished the whole bag by himself even before we left tivoli gardens that night.
While we were waiting for the Tivoli Illuminations at the Tivoli Lake to start at 2200hrs, it began to rain heavier. The daily Tivoli Illuminations is a fantastic lighting show that creates a dream universe with colors, music, lasers, fire, smoke and water.
After the show, we decided to stay a bit longer to wait for the fireworks. While waiting, Jerlene and Javier kept themselves busy at the various playground around.
At 2245hrs sharp, we were presented with the fireworks show. Apparently other than weekend, this show also runs every Wednesday, which happened to be today.
Once the fireworks ended, we made our way back to the hotel in the rain.
We walked around the amusement park without going on any of the rides as it was drizzling. Furthermore, our Copenhagen cards only allow us to enter the park for free. All the rides in the park are charged separately.
7 Jun 2017 - Copenhagen Day 2: Dinner at Magasasa Chinese Restaurant
We planned to visit the Tivoli Gardens tonight. As it was raining and getting cold, we made our way back to the hotel to get our warm clothing.
On our way back, we decided to stop by Magasasa Chinese restaurant just next to our hotel for dinner. The portion was quite big and it was delicious!
7 Jun 2017 - Copenhagen Day 2: Tycho Brahe Planetarium
As it was still early, we decided to make full use of our Copenhagen Cards and went to the Tycho Brahe Planetarium to watch an IMAX movie on Hurricanes. At first, Javier pronounced it as "Hoo-ricane" and we all had a great laugh. Up till now, we are still talking about it every now and then.
It was the 1st time the kids were watching IMAX.
Whilst waiting for the movie to start, we snacked on astrounaut’s ice-cream and walked around the science exhibits located on the ground floor of the planetarium.
Our Solar System and large model of the 8 planets as well as 5 dwarf planets are featured in the centre of the exhibition. Here we get to know how our Solar System was formed billions of years ago, and see real pieces of meteorite rocks.
There are many interactive exhibits, games and activities to keep us occupied while waiting for the IMAX movie to start.
All movies are with Danish narration. As such, we bought the English narration headphones for DKK 20 kr each.
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