Things to Do in Orlando, Florida
Mickey Mouse has turned Orlando into the third-ranking
US destination for overseas travellers, after Los Angeles and New
York City.
John
F. Kennedy Space Center
www.nasa.gov
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is open
every day - exept December 25 - from 9 a.m. to dusk. Kennedy Space
Center is located 45 minutes east of Orlando. Nowhere else can you
see, touch and hear more about the workings of America's space-craft
built to travel to the moon more than 30 years ago. Present-day
missions help support the International Space Station and will blaze
a trail for future exploration of other planets.
Universal
Studios
www.universalorlando.com
Orlando's Universal Studios is a combination
working movie studio and theme park. What this means essentially
is that you can admire stars from afar and live vicariously through
them. Some of the trademark attractions include Terminator 2: 3D,
a spectacular 3D experience where you get to be Ahhhhnold, and Back
to the Future, with phenomenal special effects.
SeaWorld
www.seaworld.com
A combination amusement park, aquarium and beer
garden, SeaWorld is fine family entertainment. If you like leaping
dolphins, sliding sea lions and crashing whales, you're in for a
treat. Highlights include the Kraken roller-coaster, dolphin nursery,
Terrors of the Deep aquarium and the ever-popular otters. SeaWorld
Animal Rescue Team rescue endangered manatees and restore them to
health. It has one of the best animal rescue outfits in the country,
and the team is partially funded by park admissions.
Walt Disney World
www.disney.com
This is a self-contained city. Apart from the
four main parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney-MGM Studios and Animal
Kingdom), there are three water parks, a shopping district, 22 hotels,
countless eateries, a police force, transport systems, medical centres,
even kennels for the pooch. Watch out for the mouse. In its first
year, Disney World saw over 10 million visitors, and it remains
one of the world's top tourist destinations, now attracting more
than 20 million visitors a year. It's also the world's biggest amusement
resort, covering an area twice the size of New York's Manhattan.
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