Tours in Wilhelmshaven, Germany: useful information for travelers

There are cities in which the feminine principle is clearly traced - seductiveness and inconstancy, emotionality and coquetry. Take Paris, for example, or Vienna...

But the German port city of Wilhelmshaven is not like that - brutal, harsh and solid. And what else to be the edge where the country's main naval base on the North Sea is located?

Those who like to travel by car usually book a car in Germany in advance online. At Berlin Tegel Airport, renting a compact car will cost from 16 euros per day, and at Munich train station a little more expensive - from 21 euros per day. Prices may vary depending on the season, car class and rental period.

Military bearing is manifested in everything - even in the way the wicker beach cabins on the shore line up evenly, painted and numbered.

Blue, white, blue, white - pay for the first or second! Cabins with chairs installed in them are a necessity, because even on a warm day a cold wind can fly in - the North Sea. This is the least of all embarrassing for children - they are so busy climbing hills in the form of ships and sand "baking" that they simply do not have time to get cold.

Of course, there is the Naval Museum here. Its pavilions house ancient cannons, ship models, sailors' uniforms, and rigging. Around the three-story building of the museum, which previously served as a dock, minesweepers and torpedo bombers, frigates and submarines froze on land and in the bay.

Previously, these old ships were anchored at the entrance to the bay and served as landmarks instead of a lighthouse. Satellite communications and GPS navigation rendered this use of ships meaningless, and the ships were "reclassified" as museum exhibits, as well as restaurants and venues for wedding ceremonies.

Swimming in the North Sea is for the strong in spirit and only in the summer, but included in the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List, the Wadden Sea National Park attracts scientists and researchers all year round.

Endangered species of birds can be seen in the Wattenmeer nature reserve. During seasonal migrations, up to 20 million migratory birds take a break on the Wadden Coast. A large population of seals, dependent on the abundance of flounder in the local waters, also finds shelter here.

The pride of Wilhelmshaven is the oceanarium, where you can observe more than 250 species of marine animals and fish.

On different floors - their lodgers: below, in a 30,000-liter aquarium, Antarctic fish live, whose blood has antifreeze properties, northern seals wave their flippers in greeting to visitors, reef sharks and rays are located higher, even higher - bright tropical fish and sea anemones friendly to them , shellfish and jellyfish. A separate pavilion recreates the ecosystem of the rainforest, home to marmosets and spectacled caimans.

Wilhelmshaven is a city of active and smart people; all conditions are created here for sports. Again, water sports are in the lead - swimming, rowing, surfing, sailing, there are also football stadiums and golf courses in the city.

During the annual end of the sailing season, ships participating in the Jade Weser Cup regatta enter the inner bay of the city. Sailboats pass by another attraction, the Kaiser Wilhelm Drawbridge, built in 1907.

45 km from Wilhelmshaven is the resort town of Bensersiel, where you can visit the Museum of Nature. The museum exhibits a lot of outlandish exhibits: stuffed deep-sea fish, teeth of a huge shark, a 14-meter skeleton of a giant sperm whale.