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WALT DISNEY WORLD · BAY LAKE, FLORIDA

Animal Kingdom

“nahtazu — it's not a zoo”

Disney's biggest park by far — 580 acres where a carved tree anchors a real savanna, a forbidden mountain, and a moon with floating rocks. Half the animals are alive; the rest are drawn below.

Tree of Life
Icon · Discovery Island

the tree of life hides 337 carved animals — the scorpion takes the longest to find

THE ANIMATED COLLECTION · 8 PIECES

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Discovery Island

1
  • Zootopia: Better Zoogether!

Pandora — The World of Avatar

2
Avatar Flight of Passage
Dark ride
Ride a banshee over the valley — the best ride on property.
Na'vi River Journey
Boat ride
Drift a bioluminescent river to the Shaman of Songs.

Africa

4
Kilimanjaro Safaris
Safari
An open-sided truck through 110 acres of real savanna.
  • Festival of the Lion King
  • Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail
  • Wildlife Express Train

Asia

4
Expedition Everest
Coaster
Forward, backward, and face-to-face with the yeti.
Kali River Rapids
Raft ride
A round raft, a logging camp, and one guaranteed soaking.
  • Feathered Friends in Flight
  • Maharajah Jungle Trek

DinoLand U.S.A.

2
DINOSAUR
Dark ride
A Time Rover, a meteor, and one very close Carnotaurus.
TriceraTop Spin
Spinner
The Dumbo of the Cretaceous.
opened
April 22, 1998
size
580 acres — WDW's biggest
the icon
The Tree of Life
my headliners
Flight of Passage · Everest · Safaris

This is the park that argues a zoo can be a story: real lions on a real savanna, one land over from a mountain guarded by a myth and a moon that glows when the sun quits.

Go at rope drop for the safari — the animals are up, the light is gold, and the line isn't. Then cross the whole park and let Flight of Passage ruin every other simulator for you.

Every piece above is hand-drawn and animated — the canopy sways, the yeti lurks, the rapids spin, and a banshee circles Pandora. The fireflies in the Tree of Life never sleep.