Category: flora & fauna
De Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam
The De Hortus Botanical Garden is apparently the oldest botanical garden in the world, being founded in 1638. It received many of its more exotic plants from the Dutch East India Company in the 17th and 18th century (this might explain the image of a ship on the shield, see left side of the gate).…
Amsterdam’s floating flower market (Bloemenmarkt)
Amsterdam is historically famous for its tulips and it is one of the major centers of horticulture (which explain in part why the conference I attended was held here). To extend the plant theme of my visit, but with very little time, we briefly visited the flower market (Bloemenmarkt) and De hortus, the botanical garden…
Aquarium at Hotel Beaulac: Part 4 of 4
How many different species can you see in this photo ? Ciao.
Aquarium at Hotel Beaulac: Part 3 of 4
We spent our 4-day Easter weekend in Lugano. So I will be posting lots of pictures from there. In the mean time, I will put up the remainder of the aquarium pictures. Earlier posts from the series are here: Part 1 and Part 2. The creature above looked very busy as each of its little…