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Busch Gardens and Tampa, Florida
Enjoy the beautiful natural beauty!
Featuring one of the largest collection of exotic free roaming
wild animals outside of Africa and the fastest and largest
roller coaster in the US, Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida
is the top tourist destination on the West Coast of Florida.
Popular rides include Kumba, a large steel roller coaster,
the Stanley Falls and Congo River water ride, and the jaw
dropping Gwazi wooden roller coaster. An elevated monorail
allows visitors to view the exotic wildlife of the Serengeti
Plain.
Highlighted by Busch Gardens and the $84 million Florida
Aquarium, Tampa Florida is the largest and most diverse Gulf
Coast City in Florida.
Before Walt Disney World opened in Orlando Florida, Busch
Gardens was the most popular theme park in Florida. Even today,
Busch Gardens has charm and some of the rides fill less dated
than the ones in the Magic Kingdom. Still, the premiere attraction
in Busch Gardens is the monorail guided African safari which
features visitors a chance to see up close zebra, giraffes,
hippos and elephants grazing along an 80 acre area. The lions,
hyenas and crocodiles are separated in another large area
from which visitors can view from the safety of their monorail
lounge.
Besides the African Safari monorail adventure, Busch Gardens
also offers two thrilling roller (the Kumba and the Gwazi)
and a fantastic flume water ride. And no visit to Busch Gardens
is complete without a visit to the Hospitality House feature
free sample of Anheuser-Busch’s draft beer.
The Florida Aquarium offers visitors a chance to view more
than 5,000 aquatic animals and plants. This spectacular 83
foot high glass dome building contains five major distinctive
habit areas – the most impressive of which is a living
coral reef eco-system within a 500,000 gallon tank.
Beyond the Aquarium and Busch Gardens, Tampa also has a series
of museums (Henry B. Plant Museum, Museum of Science and Industry
and Tampa Museum of Art) white sandy beaches and pockets of
ethnic areas the most famous of which is the Cuban district
of Ybor City.
The restaurant scene in Tampa is first rate and of course
the latin food is the best outside of Miami. Tampa also has
a lively scene of music and nightclubs as well as several
notorious gentlemen clubs. |
