… without blogging more about it.<\/p>\n
Friday I had half-off, so instead of packing and lounging about the pool, we used our last passes to go to Animal Kingdom. I figured Squiggy would have more fun there than Disney\/MGM (and I think I was right).<\/p>\n
I had expected something sort of like the San Diego Wild Animal Park — open ranges of animals, a few Disney touches, kind of dull but educational and mildly entertaining.<\/p>\n
More the fool I.<\/p>\n
It’s the newest park at WDW, but it’s heavily forested (the advantages, I suppose, of building in a tropical swamp). And it’s a culmination of all the Imagineers’ work to create a total immersion into an environment. Walk through the E. African quarter, and it’s National Geographic time. <\/p>\n
The safari takes you over muddy dirt roads — which are only upon examination paved roads with bumps and tire tracks embedded in. San Diego does a better veldt<\/i> than Florida, but the use of topography and plantings makes different enclosures (and nice ones at that) look like all one range. For the kids there’s a clever integration of real animals and a simulated poacher storyline. <\/p>\n
Some great fish pools. And a marvelous gorilla enclosure (with some of the most active gorillas I’ve ever seen).<\/p>\n
Off in Asia, the nature walk there goes through marvelous, extensive “ruins” of a maharaj’s palace. Tigers, deer, etc., all in meticulously crafted surroundings. Really quite nice.<\/p>\n
And under the massive (man-made), intricately carved tree in the center of the park, “It’s Tough to be a Bug,” a show that combines the cast of A Bug’s Life <\/i>with 3D glasses and special effects “extras.” A lot of fun.<\/p>\n
That’s about all we had time to see in the afternoon. Good stuff all, and a nice finale to the fun. I would strongly recommend Animal Kingdom to anyone traveling to WDW (I’d go there again before I’d go to Epcot).<\/p>\n
And that should be the last of the (major) posts regarding My Trip to Orlando and What I Saw There.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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