Exchange students out and about in Bentlage today
The 18 students from Leiria had a spicy start to the day: a visit to the salt workshop was on the agenda.
In the salt boiling house, a technical monument from the 18th century, the salt workshop offers educational programs.
The salt workshop is an extracurricular place of learning. School classes, children’s groups, families and adults can use all their senses to discover salt, which is essential for human life. Historical contexts are explained in a playful way and everyone can try out for themselves in small pans how the white salt crystals are formed from the brine. During their visit to Bentlage, the guests from Portugal also got to know the outdoor area of the Gottesgabe salt works and the historic boiling pans, furnaces and salt storage facilities. Christa Schmitz from the municipal museums was thrilled by the thirst for knowledge and the discipline of the girls and boys.
Afterwards, they went to the nature zoo. Here, among other things, the zoo project “Global Contribution to Wildlife Conservation” was explained to the students. The highlight of the visit was certainly the feeding of the seals.
And before the joint lunch they went to the monkey forest.