What do you prefer: watching sealife or eating it???

walking through the tunnel of fish!

Per where we left off…Mike and I were heading to the Bioparc in Valencia, BUT, before we get into that I have to get back and tell you about Oceanografic! We walked there from our hotel and made our way in to Europe’s largest aquarium. It didn’t look super big when entering because most everything is underground. They have 7 different themes: Mediterranean, Wetlands (birds and fish), Temperate (seals, penguins), Oceans (sharks), Arctic (belugas, walruses), Islands (sea lions) and Tropical (fish), and we made sure we spent plenty of time in all of them. We saw some beautiful animals like Beluga whales, penguins, walruses, sea lions, tons of exotic fish and birds and last but not least- SHARKS, lots of them. That seemed to be Mike’s favorite part of the whole place were all the different sharks they had in the walk through aquarium tunnel. In all the whole place was amazing and very well set up. 

Us in the fish tunnel...

The outside part was very peaceful with many pond/small lake like bodies of water filled with fish and birds. The underground part had glass tunnels that you could walk through to see all the different sea life. There was even a cool little cave type part that you could crawl into and feel like you were part of the aquarium because when you look up you were surrounded by water. We had to fight our way in there because there were tons of kids just trying to swarm there way into there. We
got in there eventually though! Here's a glimpse of a few things we saw:

I just want to take a nap with them...

they were glow in the dark!

He looks like he's smiling!

I feel like I'm living in Nemo's world :)

The Beluga...TOO cute

After exploring the "underground" aquarium, we walked over to see a show...with DOLPHINS! The show was great and I got to be Mike's personal translator :) After watching the dolphins (and people) do tricks we worked our way back over to the Arctic part to see the walrus, Beluga and penguins. That was definitely my favorite part of the whole place, and we made sure to go through it twice. The animals were just TOO cute! 

So after a half a day later, we had gone through the whole Oceanographic. We grabbed a cute little penguin souvenir mug on the way out and headed out to move hotels. The hotel reservation we had that night was a hostel type place on the college campus. It was just old dorm rooms converted into hostel rooms and me and Mike just stayed in a double. It wasn't anything special but we didn't stay there too long anyways. That night, after our busy day of sealife sightseeing, we walked around a stopped at a small bar. I have to tell you though- this place was GREAT. Just a typical small Spanish bar with some AMAZING tapas. It was called Los Arevalo and it was right on Carrer de Marti Grajales, across from a day market. Really good food and really nice people- I definitely recommend!

Well the next day we headed to the Bioparc but I will have to get back to you all on that. I'm about to head out the door...