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Loro Parque is all the tenerife zoos you need, premier fun for all the family
If your looking for tenerife Zoos, well the biggest family attraction on Tenerife is Loro Parque.
Located close to Puerto de la Cruz, it is easy to get to and is family fun all the way.
From simple beginnings in 1972 as a Loro Parque (Spanish for parrot park) when tenerife tourism was just taking off.
It's Not just Parrots at Loro Parque
There are no other tenerife zoos other than Loro Parque but it's not just a zoo, it's now an internationally renowned award-winning theme park, featuring tropical gardens, sea-life centre, rides and other attractions.
It's not only fun, but it's educational too, with an emphasis on conservation of some very rare animals, especially Parrots with the largest collection in the world.
One of the parks newest attractions is "Planet Penguin" which is it's own penguin micro climate in a tropical Island, often described as the worlds largest Refridgator.
Every tenerife guide features the park and can be easily reached by the free road train "Loro Parque Express" that can be caught from the the Plaza Reyes Catalicos in the centre of Puerto de la Cruz, trains run every 20 mins.
The park is open every day from 08.00 - 18.45, with the last admission at 16.00.
Admission to the park cost €31 per adult and €20 per child, that's about £25 and £15 respectfully, so it can get quite expensive.
The only Orca Ocean in Europe with Killer wales
The park is vast at 135,000m2, it is claimed to be the largest in the world, and when we're talking records, the park has: Europe's largest Dolphin show pool, the world's largest indoor Penguin exhibition, the longest Shark Tunnel in Europe, the largest Thai village outside Thailand, and is the only place in Europe to feature an Orca Ocean, the ultimate in tenerife zoos.
The owners are proposing another park in the South of the Island nearest the main hubs of tenerife tourism, an dclose to "Siam Park" (due to open summer 2008), which is a water park that will be the biggest in Europe.
The pre-title sequence of the 2005 movie The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was also filmed at Loro Parque.
The park considers itself a savior of animals also, and prides itself as a sanctuary for those animals such as the tigers and chimps which were once illegally owned and mis-treated, some gorillas were previously outcasts of other groups brought in by the park, and they continue their good work as they bring in other endangered species from around the world.
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