The Green Planet at night: Dubai's indoor rainforest relaunches camping experience

Camping in the Rainforest has reopened to the public

The Green Planet has relaunched its Camping in the Rainforest experience, which allows visitors to stay at Dubai's indoor rainforest overnight. All photos: Chris Whiteoak / The National

Campers sleep among the 3,000 plants and animals that call The Green Planet home.

The New Caledonia giant gecko.

A Victoria Crowned Pigeon sleeps.

Families are invited to explore the facility.

The Green Planet leads tours to introduce visitors to nocturnal animals.

Games and family activities are also held.

A view of the snakes.

Birds sit on the handrail as the sun goes down.

A view of the biodome at night.

Darkness has fallen.

Birds fly around freely.

The facility is home to snakes and lizards.

A giant gecko.

A young boy walks around the rainforest at night looking at the animals.

A slow loris.

Visitors are given head torches.

A bearcat at the biodome.

The sloths climb at night.

Dubai's indoor rainforest, The Green Planet, has relaunched its overnight camping experience to the public.

Visitors are able to sleep among the more than 3,000 animals and plants that call the biodome home.

Scroll through the gallery above to see what The Green Planet looks like at night.

Tents are pitched and activities planned, with games and experiences catering to families.

Staff lead rainforest tours, so guests can learn more about the nocturnal animals living there, and movie screenings or story time also take place.

The experience, which is available on Fridays and Saturdays until August 27, begins at 7pm, with dinner being served at the Green Planet Cafe, where breakfast is also given the following morning, when the journey wraps up.

Visitors also get the chance to feed the animals.

The package costs Dh700 for a tent for two guests. A large tent for four is Dh1,200. Prices include access to lockers, bathrooms and shower facilities.

Places need to be booked at least 24 hours in advance and spots are limited.

Meet the creatures inside The Green Planet

The Green Planet is in City Walk, Dubai. Chris Whiteoak / The National

The indoor biodome rainforest houses hundreds of creatures. Chris Whiteoak / The National

A two-toed sloth lives at The Green Planet, Dubai. Chris Whiteoak / The National

Fish feeding time at The Green Planet, Dubai. Chris Whiteoak / The National

The Green Planet is also home to 1,000 piranha fish. Chris Whiteoak / The National

A channel billed toucan at The Green Planet, Dubai. Chris Whiteoak / The National

Visitors at The Green Planet, Dubai. Chris Whiteoak / The National

Designed as an enclosed ecosystem, The Green Planet recreates a tropical forest with over 3,000 plants and animals. Chris Whiteoak / The National

See the world’s largest indoor man-made and life-sustaining tree at The Green Planet, Dubai. Chris Whiteoak / The National

Children love it here. Chris Whiteoak / The National

The attraction is split into various sections. Chris Whiteoak / The National

The family-friendly facility is home to a wide range of creatures, including Fluffy the bearcat, a male binturong that's The Green Planet's biggest furry resident, as well as cotton-top tamarin monkey twins that were born at the dome.

In 2019, the team took in an abandoned slow loris that was rescued from Dubai's streets. Lonely Loris, as he is called, was found abandoned in a box and is thought to have been illegally trafficked. The doe-eyed primate is a Sunda slow loris from Java, Indonesia. There are nine species of slow loris, which originate from Asia, and they are at significant risk of extinction in the wild, sharing the same critical status as African elephants, gorillas and orangutans.

A few months later, Amal, a second slow loris, was brought to the facility for breeding purposes.