{"id":1582,"date":"2018-05-12T12:18:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T19:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2018-06-20T18:13:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T01:13:24","slug":"lisboa-dory-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/lisboa-dory-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisboa \u2013 Dory, Found!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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or One Million Reasons Why You Should Not Swim in the Ocean<\/h3>\n

For our last day here in Lisbon we decided to\u2026surprise\u2026go for a walk.\u00a0 This time we went in the opposite direction from the Lisbon center and headed out for a 7 km walk to the old 1998 expo site and plaza of nations.\u00a0 After the 12 km walk earlier when we explored Belem, this was easy peasy and a nice stroll along the Tagus river the entire way.\u00a0 The destination?\u00a0 The Ocean\u00e1rio de Lisboa, once the largest, now 2nd<\/sup> largest indoor aquarium in Europe, behind the one in Valencia, Spain.<\/p>\n

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Built for the 1998 World Exposition, which had an oceans theme, it is a spectacular place to visit especially if a), you like aquariums, and b), you\u2019ve never (like us) been in one like this before.\u00a0 Very cool!\u00a0 The main exhibit is a 5 million litre tank housing hundreds of species including a sunfish which apparently is hard to keep in a facility like this.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t know what a sunfish is, google it.\u00a0 Pretty weird.\u00a0 The \u2018tank\u2019 if you want to call it that, has 7×7 meter windows on each side with a bunch of smaller focus windows covering 2 floors so you can view in the middle and at the bottom.\u00a0 It really is like gazing straight into the ocean.<\/p>\n

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The main tank represents the Atlantic but there are other smaller tanks representing the Pacific, Indian, and Antarctic.\u00a0 From all these viewing windows you can watch the interplay of various kinds of fish, sharks, manta rays, coral, eels, sea worms, sea horse, sea dragon, tropical fish, and lots of anemones.\u00a0 And that\u2019s the short list.\u00a0 There\u2019s other stuff in there that make Alien feel downright homey.\u00a0 The aquarium also has some birds (puffins), penguins, and otters.<\/p>\n

As a bonus, there was also a temporary exhibit by Takashi Amano, an interesting Japanese dude who likes to show underwater forests.\u00a0 Very beautiful and we’ve included some information and links at the end.<\/p>\n

I will let the pictures tell the rest of the story, but trust me on this, you do not want to ever swim in the ocean!<\/p>\n

We took the train home in case you were interested.<\/p>\n

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