If you are wondering where you can see these fabulously realistic dinosaurs in Maribor I have to 'disappoint' you straight away. This is not a new tourist attraction in Maribor (sigh - I wish, I wish).
It's thanks to Maribor's fantastic geographic position right in the middle of Europe that we can visit this beautiful Styrassic park in Austria. First, there is a 10 minute drive to the Austrian border and then less then 60km to Bad Gleichenberg and you are there, at the heart of a very authentic 'forgotten world'.
Summers are great for visiting Styrassic park. We can hide from the heat in a beautiful woodland and spend the whole afternoon in the cool shade of majestic trees (summers in Maribor can be very, very hot and every opportunity to cool down is more than welcome).
82 life-size and up to 10 m high dinosaurs are dotted all around the park (from the Plateosaurus to Tyrannosaurus Rex). They look all too realistic so I kind of get this 'strange' feeling that something's going to grab my neck :). Of course, children don't experience this kind of fear-ridden problems. They are little explorers, excitedly jumping around every dinosaur no matter how it looks and cry their souls out when we have to leave. I keep repeating that we'll be back again but to no avail (ah, kids, you know what I mean).
The trip to this magical world of dinosaurs is just one of many one day trips that we experience when on holidays in Maribor.
The are plenty of other one-day trips to Croatia, Hungary and Italy but more about this in my next blog posts :)
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