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Skydeck Chicago At 1,353 feet and 110 stories above the streets of downtown Chicago, The Ledge at the Willis Tower (formerly known as Sears Tower) Skydeck will transform any visitor's--or local's for that matter--experience with the Windy City. In January 2009, Willis Tower owners began a major renovation of the beloved Skydeck, which originally opened in 1974, and served as a premier tourist attraction throughout the skyscraper's tenure as the Sears Tower. When ownership changed hands, the fresh blood added a fresh look--and adrenaline rush--to the 103rd floor in the form of retractable glass balconies extending about 4 feet over Wacker Drive and the Chicago River below. Still the 8th tallest building in the world, and the absolute tallest in the Western Hemisphere, Willis Tower's Skydeck draws 1.5 million people a year who are eager to ascend the 110-story, 1,454 foot (443 meter) building for awesome panoramic views of the city and surrounding countryside. Your journey to the top of the Willis Tower starts with a walk through an airport-style metal detector, followed by a slow elevator ride down to the waiting area where visitors queue for tickets. A sign will tell you how long you'll have to wait to get up high; this is a good time to confirm the visibility. Even days that seem sunny can have upper-level haze that limits the view. On good days, however, you can see for 40 to 50 miles (64 to 80 kilometers), as far as the states of Indiana, Michigan. Iowa, and Wisconsin. While you wait, you can watch a film about Willis Tower factoids. Then you'll wait a little longer before the ear-popping, 70 second elevator ride up to the 103rd floor deck. From here, the entire city stretches below, and you can see exactly how Chicago is laid out. Willis Tower, Skydeck, and The Ledge Fast Facts The hundreds of forehead prints visitors left behind each week on Skydeck windows served as this inspiration for The Ledge. The Ledge boxes can each bear about 4-1/2 metric tons of weight, and adventurers who trust that statistic enough to prove it can often be found jumping and bounding around the entirely translucent enclosures as Chicago's heavy traffic and infrastructure bustle below. The Ledge’s glass panels weight 1,500 pounds apiece, and each box is comprised of three layers of half-inch thick glass laminated into one seamless unit. In addition to serving 1.3 million tourists per year in its 4.5+ million square feet of space, Willis Tower is home to more than 100 companies, including prominent law, insurance, transportation, and financial services. The Ledge's glass boxes retract into the Skydeck main floor for easy maintenance, probably mostly cleaning off the 974 dead birds that must fly into them every month. The Moonwalk is the most popular dance performed on The Ledge, followed closely by the Running Man. Riverdance clocks in at a distant third. Bringing people who are afraid of heights to The Ledge is not recommended, unless you are mean-spirited or really don't like them. In which case, you should probably just take them here. Willis Tower was known as Sears Tower for decades, until the 30th anniversary of Diff'rent Strokes, at which point it was rightfully renamed SHEDD AQUARIUM EXHIBITS UNDERWATER BEAUTY – A SPECIAL EXHIBIT Our living world is full of wonder. Celebrate with us the unbelievable beauty living in our oceans, lakes and rivers in a new special exhibit at Shedd Aquarium: Underwater Beauty. Get a glimpse of the grandeur beneath the waves as 100 species from around the world come together in an evocative new space. What is beauty? Spark your curiosity as you see all the ways beauty moves and coexists. Watch sea jellies pulse, eels ribbon and a rainbow come alive with reef fishes. Feel the rhythms, embrace the colors and savor the patterns found only underwater. Experience a world worth celebrating – and saving. AMPHIBIANS! Get ready for a toadally ribbiting experience! In Amphibians, you’ll meet 40 species of frogs, salamanders and rarely seen caecilians. Learn how amphibians’ lives are full of change, from their life cycles to their adaptations to live in nearly every environment on Earth. Find out how too much change can spell trouble for amphibians — and how you can help them cope with big changes in our world today! Waters of the World Travel the world in 80 habitats. Dive into Oceans, from coastal kelp forests to the seafloor. Explore the self-contained ecosystems of Islands and Lakes. Visit Rivers—big and small—and learn more about our local waters in the new At Home on the Great Lakes exhibit. Meet hundreds of amazing animals, from tiny mantella frogsto a a giant octopus, from a Grand Cayman blue iguana to Nile knifefish, and from moon jellies to sea stars. We even have map turtles, in case you get lost. Caribbean Reef Take a 360-degree tour of an underwater reef community. Follow a green sea turtle. Peek at a moray eel in a rocky crevice. Watch regal rays glide by. Get eye-to-eye with parrot fish and sharks. Visit Caribbean Reef, Shedd’s award-winning 90,000-gallon circular habitat in the grand rotunda. Amazon Rising Take an exotic journey in the Amazon, home to one-third of all living things. Watch out for anacondas and piranhas, spiders, rays and a camouflaged caiman. In churning river channels, still lakes and even flooded treetops look for tetras, turtles and fruit-eating fish called tambaqui. See how the region’s animals, plants and people adapt to the water’s dramatic annual rise and fall. Abbott Oceanarium The Abbott Oceanarium immerses you in the vibrant coastal ecosystem of beluga whales, Pacific white-sided dolphins, sea otters and sea lions. You’ll also find a host of fishes and invertebrates that make their homes where freshwater flows into the ocean or where tides turn seascapes to landscapes and back again each day. Use our self-guided map to discover how animals are linked to each other, their homes and you. Polar Play Zone Kids have a place at Shedd that they can call their own—Polar Play Zone. It’s cool as ice and twice as nice! The penguins think so, too. Play! Splash! Pretend! What would you like to be? A sleek sliding penguin? A deep-sea explorer? How about both? In Polar Play Zone, you can slip into a penguin suit and try being a bird in the Icy South play area. From there, head to the Icy North to explore the belugas’ Arctic waters in a kid-sized submarine. Don’t forget to shake hands—or is it arms?—with colorful sea stars in the touch pools. In Polar Play Zone, you’ll learn about polar opposites—big and small, fast and slow, shallow and deep, even north and south—while you play. The Oceanarium Aquatic Presentation is included however based on available seating and remaining show times at the time of guest arrival. (2018 Aquatic Presentation Schedule) Stingray Touch (seasonal experience) is included. Open late May through October. 4D Experience is not included however the 4D experience tickets may be purchased at the theatre for $3.00 per -person
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They are crazy, these Gauls!!! Laughter, good humour, moments shared with family and friends, in 2017 come and enjoy some sensational experiences at Parc Astérix. Parc Astérix is a stunning adventure featuring 7 big thrill rides, 20 attractions for all the family and 13 attractions for little Gauls, including the Forest of Idéfix. You can also discover our 5 irresistible shows that combine stunts, special effects, magic, humour, audience participation and fabulous encounters. NEW FOR 2017: PEGASUS EXPRESS A new mythical attraction! Step aboard for a crazy voyage through ancient Greece… A fantastic odyssey taking you from the station of Montparnos to the temple of Medusa, and on a surprising and unforgettable tour. Come and discover Pegasus Express, the new attraction at Parc Astérix, with emotions and surprises packed into this high-speed journey! © 2015 Les éditions Albert René / Goscinny-Uderzo
SEA LIFE Melbourne Haga un viaje a las profundidades con más de 10.000 animales acuáticos, encontrará algunos de los animales más increíbles del mundo. ¡Acérquese a los divertidos pingüinos, a tiburones enormes, peces sierra, rayas majestuosas, hermosos caballitos de mar, miles de peces tropicales y mucho más! Hay tanto que ver y una gran variedad de actividades divertidas para jóvenes y mayores, que no se arrepentirá de la visita a SEA LIFE Melbourne. SEA LIFE Melbourne le ofrece una aventura interactiva desde las profundidades del océano hasta las aguas heladas de la Antártida. La impresionante exhibición Croc Lair es solo una de las 12 nuevas zonas de descubrimiento del acuario, también podrá admirar la única exhibición mundial de tiburones elefante en Bay of Rays, quedase fascinado al experimentar un arco iris de colores en el Seahorse Pier, y explore un mundo diferente a cualquier otro y maravíllese con los majestuosos pingüinos rey y los papúa en Penguin Playground. Con los encuentros interactivos con animales, las icónicas pantallas de última generación, la alimentación de animales y más, SEA LIFE Melbourne es una experiencia excelente, educativa y completamente interesante. Zoo de Melbourne El zoológico de Melbourne es una fantástica experiencia de vida salvaje con más de 320 especies, incluida la original y única fauna australiana, como canguros, koalas, uombats y emús. Disfrute de poder ver animales de todo el mundo en hábitats naturales y exhibiciones especiales, desde grandes félidos y elefantes a orangutanes y focas descaradas. Podrá acercarse a una gran variedad de animales autóctonos australianos. Además la casa de las mariposas es una experiencia fascinante donde le rodearan cientos de coloridas mariposas y una exuberante vegetación tropical. Los visitantes más jóvenes podrán aprender y jugar en la exhibición Growing Wild o en el espacio de juegos Keeper Kids. Sorpréndase con el mundo de vida salvaje en el corazón de Melbourne. El Zoo de Melbourne es un lugar ideal para pasar un gran día en familia. Visite el Mapa Interactivo para conocer más cosas sobre el Zoo de Melbourne.
Deslízate sobre la hierba y los gladios escuchando las historias sobre el entorno que le rodea con el Gator Night – Tour Nocturno de 1 hora. A tener en cuenta: todos los tours en hirdrodeslizador incluyen la entrada de las áreas de exhibición. Los espectáculos van incluidos con todas las áreas de exhibición. Exhibición de reptiles Esta exhibición presenta docenas de especies de reptiles, tanto nativas de Florida como exóticas. Aprenderás datos de las amigables tortugas e iguanas y también sobre el cocodrilo llamado Caníbal de 46 kg. Los adiestradores demostraran como estos animales viven y sobreviven en la naturaleza. Exhibición de los Everglades En esta exhibición se hace la presentación del vídeo “Our Everglades Story”. Este video muestra la historia de los Glades y la relación con algunos temas importantes de la actualidad, como los esfuerzos que han hecho a lo largo de los años para conservar la zona de los Everglades. Exhibición de animales exóticos Una organización a parte lleva cada día una variedad de animales al parque para que puedan ser visitados. El objetivo principal de esta organización es educar e informar al público sobre las especies en peligro de extinción, como la Pantera de Florida. Los mamíferos que están al cuidado de esta organización son adoptados o rescatados de instalaciones que han perdido la licencia o de particulares que poseían el animal ilegalmente. Normalmente los animales que podrá observar de cerca son panteras, leopardos, caracal, linces e incluso algunos mamíferos más pequeños. Tenga en cuenta que los animales de esta exhibición pueden cambiar día a día y no hay garantía de que siempre encuentre animales específicos.