Yesterday was lovely. Walking through the lush royal park forest towards the capital City Stockholm was the part that I enjoyed most, it was beautiful and peaceful. About an hour walking distance if you aren’t in a hurry. Son is in this faze where he is fascinated with sharks & the all time fave is the Megalodon but since it’s extinct the great white is his second choice :-). His interest for sharks was the idea behind the planned event. The Haga Ocean Butterfly House at Hagaparken, Stockholm, hold a 1.2 million liter big sea aquarium where sharks and reef fish swim, there aren’t any great whites in the tank (it does hold reefsharks) though there’s a great white exibit. We got there around noon and returned home after 8 pm that same day. We ate at the café outside the Butterfly House and son got a souvenir at the gift shop when we left the sharks (and butterflies and tortoises and other creatures) to explore the park & made the decision to wander back to the City instead of hopping on a bus. It‘s really a large & beautiful park with a temple & other buildings to absorb the beauty of (read the quoted section inside the post). It wasn’t my first visit to the park though it was the first time that I walked the distance, something I wish to do again in the near future. I found it much relaxing from the stressful obligations of my life. Thinking I’ll gear up and jog the tracks the entire way around the lake, I’d enjoy that. We all had a lovely day that we’ll cherish.
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Hagaparken (“Haga Park”), or simply Haga in Solna Municipality just north of Stockholm, Sweden is a vast and popular nature area, with large parks, lakes, woods and gardens. Within the park is Haga Palace, King Gustav III’sPavilion, the Chinese Pavilion, the Echo Temple, the Turkish Kiosk, an older castle ruin (which is not really a ruin as it is the remains of a castle never finished) and several other interesting buildings on the grounds (such as the peculiar Copper Tents and also the Butterfly House). Included in the Haga Park is also the Royal Burial Ground of the Swedish Royal family (since 1922), where several members and ancestors of the present Swedish royal Bernadotte family rest.
Hagaparken has historically been favoured by Swedish royalty, especially Gustav III who founded it and developed it 1780–1797, and by the famous troubadour Carl Michael Bellman, a contemporary of Gustav III, who is much associated with Haga due to the lyrics of his compositions, poems and his writings. The song Fjäriln vingad is entirely dedicated to the park. — Wikipedia
