"Kids in Prague" a Prague Travel Page by Eugenetheduck

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Mirror maze

Petrin Park - Mirror Maze

From Ujezd Street tram stop it was up....up.... up, past the closed Funicular station, up...up...to a fantastic view across Hradcany ....up...up...up to where you get off the funicular....up...up along the Hunger Wall (allegedly commissioned by Charles IV in 1360 to give the poor employment during a period of famine, 1200 m of it has survived)...up...up past an observatory to the Mirror Maze (50Kc adults/under 10 free) and the Observatory Tower which is a small version of the Eiffel Tower (60 m high) built in 1891.
Unfortunately by the time we arrived visibility was about 50 meters so we decided not to scale the 299 steps to the viewing platform of the tower. The Mirror maze was great fun, especially the room full of distorted mirrors - this was our favourite, which we named "fatheads".

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Giraffe

Prague Zoo

The first time we visited was in March(70Kc/40Kc). The zoo was in a major upgrade/repair/modernisation mode. There was work being done in every corner of the park, expanding outwards, making it one of the largest areas of zoo to walk around I have ever had to tread. The chair lift was closed!
Second time was Jan Hus Day and it was so crowded the bus(112) from Holesovice metro took about 40 minutes to get there, because of the traffic jam. The crowds once in side weren't a problem except during lunch.

Tucked away near the Strahov Monastery is the museum of miniatures by Anatoly Konenko, not cheap rate drawing on rice, but detailed paintings on pieces of mammoth bones of John Lennon and ex Prime Minister Vaclav Havel, delicate metal Eiffel tower in a small cherry seed, trains on a strand of hair and my favourite the camel train in the eye of a needle. The artist also did extreme miniatures of famous paintings like Matisse's "The dance". All required either a microscope or magnifying glass to see them.
www.muzeumminiatur.cz