Flamingo Land Resort

Mumbo Jumbo

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The Flamingo Land is a theme park and zoo in the English town of Kirby Misperton which receives about 1.4 million visitors each year.

He is currently home to over 120 different species of animals and offers 59 different attractions.

History

The park, which has its origin in an old country club, was founded in 1959. The equally eccentric yet visionary founder Park Pentland Hick made ​​in subsequent years that some in Britain at that time not yet very common species, such as dolphins and sperm whales came into the park. A year after opening advanced a fair offer from Hicks Park, which was still called at the time The Yorkshire Zoological Gardens.

A flock of flamingos quickly became an unofficial mascot into a kind of zoological gardens. Therefore, the park was renamed in 1968 in Flamingo Park, before he later received his final present name. 1995 Hick died in a car accident, and his at that time only 18 - year-old son Gordon Hick took over control of the park.

Attractions

Among the nearly 60 attractions, there are a total of five roller coasters. The most famous among them is the Mumbo Jumbo opened in 2009 which briefly showed the strongest gradient of a roller coaster around the globe with a slope of 112 degrees. In addition, the inverted coaster Kumali, which opened in 2006, to call.

Animals

Among the 120 species are found, among others, African lions, chimpanzees, giraffes and tigers.