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primate close-ups at hourly feedings. The park is also home to storks: listen for bill clat-
tering and look out for their nests near the entrance. The Affenburg is on the K7765, 10km
north of Meersburg.
Schloss Salem
Founded as a Cistercian monastery in 1134, the immense estate known as
Schloss Salem
(
www.salem.de
;
adult/concession €7/3.50; 9.30am-6pm Mon-Sat, 10.30am-6pm Sun
Apr-Oct)
was once the largest and richest of its kind in southern Germany. The Grand
Duchy of Baden sold out to the state recently but you can still picture the royals swanning
around the hedge maze, gardens and extravagant rococo apartments dripping with stucco.
The west wing shelters an elite boarding school, briefly attended by Prince Philip (Duke
of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II). Schloss Salem sits 12km north of
Meersburg.
Friedrichshafen
07541 / POP 59,000
Zeppelins, the cigar-shaped airships that first took flight in 1900 under the stewardship of
high-flying Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, will forever be associated with Friedrich-
shafen. An amble along the flowery lakefront promenade and a visit to the museum that
celebrates the behemoth of the skies are the biggest draws of this industrial town, which
was heavily bombed in WWII and rebuilt in the 1950s.
Sights & Activities
MUSEUM
Zeppelin Museum
(
www.zeppelin-museum.de
;
Seestrasse 22; adult/concession €7.50/4; 9am-5pm daily
May-Oct, 10am-5pm Tue-Sun Nov-Apr)
Near the eastern end of Friedrichshafen's lake-
front promenade, Seestrasse, is the Zeppelin Museum, housed in the Bauhaus-style former
Hafenbahnhof, built in 1932.
The centrepiece is a full-scale mock-up of a 33m section of the
Hindenburg
(LZ 129),
the largest airship ever built, measuring an incredible 245m long and outfitted as luxuri-
