Grumpy
08-18-2008, 07:08 AM
www.jungala.com.
Welcome to the jungle, right here in Florida. Busch Gardens Tampa Bay -- just down the interstate from Orlando -- has opened a four-acre attraction featuring Bengal tigers, orangutans, gibbons, flying foxes and more.
Jungala, in the park's Congo area, is by far its most ambitious undertaking. It simulates a hidden jungle village surrounded by giant trees, waterfalls and stone.
Rides include a four-story Wild Surge that shoots guests out a mountain crater and above a giant waterfall. Three tiers of zip lines can be ridden at Jungle Flyers, and Tree Top Trails has tubes, bridges and climbing nets for kids.
You can see tigers swim in windowed underground caves and through aboveground domes, or observe orangutans swinging on lines overhead.
In the Kulu Canopy live the white-cheeked gibbons, flying foxes and gharials -- similar to crocodiles, with much skinnier snouts.
To feed your own snout, the park has reinvented the former Vivi Restaurant into the Bengal Bistro and opened the snack booth Orang Cafe.
Welcome to the jungle, right here in Florida. Busch Gardens Tampa Bay -- just down the interstate from Orlando -- has opened a four-acre attraction featuring Bengal tigers, orangutans, gibbons, flying foxes and more.
Jungala, in the park's Congo area, is by far its most ambitious undertaking. It simulates a hidden jungle village surrounded by giant trees, waterfalls and stone.
Rides include a four-story Wild Surge that shoots guests out a mountain crater and above a giant waterfall. Three tiers of zip lines can be ridden at Jungle Flyers, and Tree Top Trails has tubes, bridges and climbing nets for kids.
You can see tigers swim in windowed underground caves and through aboveground domes, or observe orangutans swinging on lines overhead.
In the Kulu Canopy live the white-cheeked gibbons, flying foxes and gharials -- similar to crocodiles, with much skinnier snouts.
To feed your own snout, the park has reinvented the former Vivi Restaurant into the Bengal Bistro and opened the snack booth Orang Cafe.