As I said, the weather hasn’t been great here the last few days and today we got enough even though it started to clear up. Instead of walking up and down the streets in torrential rain, we decided to visit Lisbon’s aquarium, or oceanarium as it is apparently called. Depending on the source you read, it is one of the largest in Europe and combined with the entrance ticket there, you can also buy tickets for the cable car that was built for the World Expo in 1998.
The cable car itself runs along the shoreline over what was the exhibition area, today it is a nice promenade with various bars and restaurants and if the weather is nice I think you get a really good view. However, they cannot be compared to the cable cars in La Paz and El Alto which are actually used to transport people around the city but as part of the visit I still think they were worth it.
The oceanarium itself was large and really well built, it felt like all the aquariums were connected and that there was only one, gigantic one, but I suppose they are different so that the sharks don’t eat the otters for example. They could have had a little more information about the different fish and animals as the ones I saw were only occasional and fairly brief pictures that described a few, hiring your own private guide was possible but felt a bit overkill, I’m not that interested.
