Disney's Animal Kingdom
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Disney 's Animal Kingdom is a eröffneter on 22 April 1998 theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. It is the largest Disney theme park in the world, and its area is more than two square kilometers. He is the first Disney theme park, dedicated in accordance with the philosophy of Walt Disney, ever the conservation of wildlife. With approximately 9.78 million visitors to the park in 2011 was # 4 on the most visited theme parks in the United States and 7th place worldwide.
- 2.1 Beastly Kingdom
Regions
The park consists of seven islands with different themes.
Oasis
After entering the park, guests must go through this region to enter the other areas. Oasis consists of different footpaths to Discovery Iceland. Left and right are the footpaths kept in zoos as some animals, such as Muntjac, Maras, spoonbills, ducks, fish, turtles, wallabies, anteaters, Hirscheber, parrots and others. The Rainforest Cafe is located at the entrance of Oasis.
Discovery Iceland
The main section of the park (formerly called Safari Village ) Discovery Iceland. It is located in the center and has sidewalks to the other six regions of the park. Here is also the Tree of Life ( Tree of Life), the emblem of the park. You can, among other kangaroos, flamingos, Axishirsche, West African cranes, Old World vulture, porcupines, lemurs, parrots, ducks, Galapagos turtles, otters and see storks. At the foot of the Tree of Life is the attraction " It's Tough to be a Bug", with the characters from the Pixar movie shows a 3D movie A Bug's Life.
Camp Minnie - Mickey
This region includes a show and allows contact with Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, and others. The show is presented The Lion King, a musical performance with acrobats with the name " Festival of the Lion King", the songs and characters from the Disney movie.
By September 2008, there was also a children's show called " Pocahontas and Her Forest Friends " with live animals, which was based on the Disney movie Pocahontas.
Africa
Africa includes two attractions: Kilimanjaro Safaris and The Pangani Forest Exploration Trail. In Kilimanjaro Safaris, guests board a safari that is not glazed but open sides. Thus, various African animals like giraffes, hippos, elephants, rhinos and lions watch, which move freely in an artificial savannah with rivers and hills visitors. You can also take part in a mission to combat ivory poachers.
In the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail attraction, guests can go to the forest to search for gorillas. Guests go on a nature walk through a small African village and come to an aviary with exotic birds, a research center with naked mole-rats and different rodents and reptiles, to an underwater observatory for observation of hippos and a savannah overview and a very close look at the gorillas.
Rafiki 's Planet Watch
Formerly called this area " Conservation Station". The area that is only accessible via the Wildlife Express Train, a rustic African train that passes by various animal care buildings and livestock buildings and allows a glimpse behind the scenes of the savannah, the attraction includes Affection Section, a petting zoo with goats, sheep, pigs, chickens, llamas and more. Likewise, the area has an animal hospital which allows visitors to watch the activities of the medical staff on the window. It also provides a variety of experiments with wild animals, interactive games and shows. The attraction Habitat Habit! the guests from the very near vicinity can see primates and learn on an adventure path, how they can help endangered animals.
Asia
The Asia region includes four attractions: Flight of Wonder Kali River Rapids Maharajah Jungle Trek and Expedition Everest.
- Flights of Wonder: A show about various birds such as Old World vulture, hawks, parrots, cranes and bald eagles.
- Kali River Rapids: A river rafting attraction in the topic India.
- Maharajah Jungle Trek: A Journey into the royal Anandapur Forest of southeast Asia with its ancient ruins. This one meets Komodo dragons, fruit bats, tapirs, birds and tigers.
- Expedition Everest: A high-speed roller coaster, which was built in an artificial mountain.
Dino Land U.S.A.
The Dino Land USA Region includes the following attractions: The Boneyard, DINOSAUR, Finding Nemo - The Musical, Cretaceous Trail, Primeval Whirl, Triceratops Spin, Fossil Fun Games.
- The Boneyard is a region with large sandboxes, where visitors can dig for dinosaur bones.
- DINOSAUR (formerly Countdown to Extinction ) is an artificial journey into the past after the Disney film Dinosaur. Visitors will have the task of finding a Iguanodon and take before an asteroid strikes and destroyed the dinosaurs.
- Finding Nemo - The Musical is a show that is listed since 12 November 2006. Dancers, acrobats and puppeteers are the story of the film Finding Nemo dar. as a musical
- Cretaceous Trail is a hiking trail, on which visitors encounter a Pachycephalosaurus. They also meet living fossils from the dinosaur age.
Chester and Hester 's Dino - Rama is a part of Dinoland USA and looks like an old drive-in movie from the 1950s from.
- Primeval Whirl is a roller coaster with self-rotating cabins and high-speed corners.
- Triceratops Spin: a flying dinosaur as an attraction for a maximum of four people.
- Fossil Fun Games: A number of fairground attractions such as horse racing or rifle throwing.
Restaurants
At the park entrance to the Rainforest Cafe is located in the park and are still the Yak & Yeti -service restaurants in Asia and the Tusker House Restaurant in Africa. In addition, there are several self-service restaurants.
Development
Beastly Kingdom
The Beastly Kingdom is a planned, but not built due to budget cuts, expansion of the park. This country should include mythical creatures like unicorns, dragons or sea monsters with two regions: one for good and one for evil mythical creatures. The regional center for the evil monster would have the Dragon Tower ( Battle Tower ) should be a standing on a ruined castle nest of a fire-breathing dragon, which is hoarding stolen treasures there. In the castle it should also give bats that try to steal the treasures of the Dragon. The story should be linked to a roller coaster, which runs through the castle ruins. The highlight of the roller coaster then the visitors would come in direct contact with the dragon.
The good side of the country would have been called Quest of the Unicorn ( The Adventures of the Unicorn ) and would result in a medieval labyrinth in which many mythological creatures live. Fantasia Gardens would be a musical boat trip through the Disney classic Fantasia. It would also singing and dancing crocodiles and hippos from the movie " Dance of the Hours " and a Pegasus, Wolf gods and centaurs occur.