The Green Planet, Indoor tropical rainforest in City Walk, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The Green Planet is an indoor zoo and garden in City Walk, Dubai, housed in a cube-shaped bio-dome of 60,000 square feet on Al Wasl Road. Its exterior splits diagonally: one part is cylindrical glass, the other is pierced with small circular apertures. Inside, an 82-foot tree with an artificial trunk stands at the centre, reached by a small bridge, beside an artificial waterfall.
The facility opened in September 2016 as part of Dubai's plan to create environmental education attractions in the city. The project emerged from a desire to bring visitors closer to understanding tropical ecosystems.
The name comes from the bio-dome's role as a self-contained green ecosystem, built by Meraas as an expansion of City Walk on Al Wasl Road. Visitors pass reptiles displayed on every level with information panels about them, and the rainforest is home to sloths, flying foxes, Seba bats, anacondas and a bearcat, kept in open environments that may not be touched.
Visitors enter on the fourth floor by lift and descend along a spiral slope, with a lift and stairs also serving the basement animals. The bridge to the central tree holds only four people at a time. Overnight camping is possible at the bio-dome.
At the centre of the bio-dome stands an 82-foot (25-metre) tree with an artificial trunk, reached by a small bridge that holds only four people at a time. A lift takes visitors to the fourth floor, from where they walk down a spiral slope past reptiles displayed on every level.
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