Dubai's popular indoor rainforest The Green Planet is expanding. The family-friendly City Walk attraction is set to launch a nature-trail-inspired adventure park as part of an outdoor extension, scheduled to open later this year.
The park will feature a treehouse exploration trail, encounters with giant bugs, a botanical garden with nine flora zones, a children's play area and dining options. Meant to be an “edutainment” experience, the adventure park will have biologists guiding guests through the world of bugs, raising awareness of the vital role they play in our ecosystem.
The Green Planet replicates a tropical rainforest indoors – spread across four levels – and is home to more than 3,000 animals and plants. Fluffy the bearcat, the attraction's biggest furry resident, lives there, as do cotton-top tamarin monkey twins that were born in the dome.
Other nocturnal animals to spot are tamandua anteaters, a prehensile-tailed porcupine, armadillos, a family of slow lorises, Burmese pythons and forest scorpions. It is also home to the region’s first bat cave that recreates the Seba’s bats’ natural habitat, replicating the cozy low-lit environments they thrive in.
The Green Planet offers an overnight camping experience where visitors can learn more about the resident nocturnal animals.
The experience, which includes film screenings, animal feeding and story time, begins at 7pm with dinner served at The Green Planet Cafe, where breakfast is also given the following morning when the journey wraps up.
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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.
