Where the wild things are - Wildnis park Langenberg

There is no information about Wildnis Park Langenberg on any guidebook I’ve read. When I type its name into Yahoo Images, only a handful of pictures turn up. A web search is not much more successful. There is, of course, an official website, but it’s only in German, as are most other online references to the park. On this particular website though, despite understanding nothing of what is written, a few random clicks uncover enticing pictures of large bison grazing in the sun and baby wild boar darting across a green field. Further research yields little more and makes me think that for a place which has the potential of being a spectacular wildlife experience, it is remarkably low-key. It is as if the locals are conspiring to keep it a secret, and judging from the lack of tourists around when I visit on a coldish April Sunday, they’ve been successful for the past 141 years, the length of time the park has been in existence.

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