Beautiful park, so much to do from play, to bird shows to farmers market! Love this place, I'll be…read moreback soon I'm sure...

Wondered why it was hard to find much about the Wildpark on…read morethe internet or tourist guides to the areaturns out there is very little to see here. I'd managed to see a couple of animals (some Rotwild and Wildschweinen) but was thinking about having a beer somewhere not particularly enjoying myself when my path was blocked by a couple of large vehicles and a bunch of guys stood around with chainsaws looking (and I suppose in a way sounding) like a group of really bad guitaristsgiving some wood hell. The cacophonous output from this barrier was the final straw and I got out of there.

It's a great green oasis in the otherwise somewhat grey city of Duisburg. And you get to see how…read morethe mines used to look like. Plus, there is Ruhrtriennale here every summer!

If you are interested in coke/steel production, then make the effort to visit. Here you get the…read morechance to climb all three of the furnaces. Much of the coke/steel production facility still remains; so much fascinating beauty among industrial decay. Nothing like this can be visited in the US; this is a worthy reminder of the Ruhrgebiet's history