Perhaps the highlight of the entire Disney experience was the Animal Kingdom park. Divided into several regions (Africa, Asia, Dinoland USA) and a conservation-focused area (Rafiki's Planet Watch) the park offered wild animal exposure within natural surroundings interspersed with a few rides. The Kilimanjaro Safari was a real treat - it compared very well to the week-long safari we did in Kenya and Tanzania - except this one lasted 20 minutes. We saw more rhinos in Florida than we did in Africa...kinda sad I suppose.
It was all very tastefully done (painstaking in it's accurate depiction of a Himalayan village and an African train station). Dylan enrolled in the Wilderness Explorer's program, in which he had numerous tasks to complete around the park to earn stickers. Here he is learning about the difference between carnivores and herbivores:
Rafiki's Planet Watch taught us all a few lessons about conservation and developing animal friendly habitats in our back yard...and Dylan got to meet Rafiki himself...very exciting for a young Lion King fan:
Dylan was even able to participate in a "real" dig, uncovering an ancient Woolly Mammoth...
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