Last visited: 4/2023
Stayed at Wyndham National Harbor
Who doesn't love an aquarium? The National Aquarium (or Baltimore Aquarium as most people say) is a great place for kids of any age to get up close and personal with fish, amphibians, birds and mammals. Be prepared to use a parking garage, but GOOD NEWS! If you take your parking ticket into the aquarium, they will stamp it so that you pay a set rate for the day. A great save on parking expenses! Find more information here: https://aqua.org
Now, what makes this aquarium cool in my mind? It offers a lot of personalized tours (added extra cost) like early access tours, rehabilitation and animal care tours, and even sleep over events (which I totally have to do). On top of these, there are also cool things like 4-D dolphin, shark and octopus movies to watch (extra cost). I would suggest booking these and your tickets ahead of arrival especially during busy months so that you do not need to stand in the kiosk as long to enter and ensure that your specialty tickets are available in the times you want.
One of my most favorite exhibits at any aquarium is the jellies. I could watch them for hours. The National Aquarium highlights many species in their Jellies Invasion area
The aviary is a walkthrough exhibit that allows you to be in the bird habitat with them. It's a popular, and warm and humid area, so it's best to keep moving. We only got eye sight of two birds this time, but could hear that little one's big mouth as soon as we walked in. You would have thought it was a five pounder from the noise he was making!
As do most aquariums, there is a please touch area for small children, or those of us that just like to touch
In the Amazon Rainforest exhibit area you can see a variety of poison dart frogs. They are not actually poisonous when in captivity! They get their poison from eating ants and termites in their native habitats
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