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Explore the enchanting bio-dome, a tropical indoor rain forest sustaining over 3000 plants & animals

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Camping in the Rainforest

Camping in the Rainforest

Dubai’s only indoor rainforest is offering guests a once-in-a-lifetime chance to spend a night in the tropical bio-dome, starting from AED 700 per night

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Things to Explore

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Swim with Piranhas at The Green Planet

A unique Snorkeling with Piranhas experience at the magical tropical biodome including Full day admission for AED 350.

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Thunderstorm at The Green Planet

Feel the thunder & experience the magic of the tropics at The Green Planet.

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Creatures of the Night

Creatures of the Night

Unique opportunity to discover the special activities of the nocturnal rainforest animals when darkness falls, Inclusive in the general admission.

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Slow Lorris

'Lonely Loris' and 'Amal' come together in hope and love

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Piranhas

Call it - 'pygocentrus nattereri' aka The Red Bellied Piranha

Experience a live feeding session daily at 4:00 pm

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Burmese Python

Call it - 'Python bivittatus'

Burmese Pythons are one of the largest snake species in the world reaching a length of 20ft or 6m and 200lbs or 90kgs. They are found in Southeast Asia and are known for their intricately patterned skin.

Cotton-Top Tamarin

Call it - 'Saguinus oedipus'

Cotton-Top Tamarins are small new-world monkeys found only in Columbia in South America. They are a critically endangered species with an estimated population of 6000 individuals. The Green Planet and zoos worldwide are trying to conserve this species to help prevent them from going extinct.

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Cuban Amazon Parrot

Call it - 'Amazona leucocephala'

The Cuban Amazon Parrot can be found throughout the tropical Cuba, Bahamas and the Cayman Islands. The smallest of the Amazon Parrots, they can be distinguished by the red coloring on their head.

Weaver Ants

Call it - 'Oecophylla smaragdina'

Weaver ants can be found in parts of Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. They construct their nests in the trees by "weaving" together leaves using silk that the weaver ant pupa produce.

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Sloth Experience

The Sloth Encounter

Call it - 'Linnaeus two-toed Sloth'

The Green Planet wants to give its guests an opportunity to spend some additional time with one of its most iconic members “The Sloth”, by providing the new Sloth Encounter Experience. These sloths stay in the same tree for years and they sleep around 15 hours a day.

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Archer Fish

Call it - 'Toxotes jaculatrix'

Come by our Archer Fish demonstration to see their unique ability to aim and squirt water up into the air. A protruding lower jaw allows these fish to target food such as small insects that may be sitting on overhanging leaves and push them into the water with a stream of water.

Seba's short tailed fruit bats

Call it - 'Carollia perspicillata'

Bats are extremely important in ecosystems as they help to control pesky insect populations like mosquitos and they help to pollinate flowers and fruit trees!

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The Sugar Glider Experience

Sugar Glider Encounter

Experience up close encounter with The Green Planet’s new members The Sugar Gliders. These are small nocturnal mammals. They have a thin skin flap behind their arms that allows them to glide from tree to tree.

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Sloth Encounter

Get an opportunity to spend some additional time with one of our iconic members 'The Sloths'. They can spend 15 hours in a day sleeping at one place.

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Squirrel Monkey

These are small new world monkeys found throughout the South America, they have a very long tail that is not so much prehensile but they use it to balance themselves while jumping from one tree to another.

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Burmese Python

Emerald Tree Boa

Emerald tree boa's are the carnivorous snakes from the South American rainforest that eat small mammals and birds. Though they are known for their incredible green coloration, young emerald tree boa's are actually in bright orange or red until they mature.

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Leaf Cutter Ants

Get to know how the intricate fungal structures are created by these tiny little colonial creatures. All the way hailing from the rainforest of South America.

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The Bat Cave

Visit our rainforest for a uniquely different summer experience, to meet some of nature's most thrilling and wondrous denizens, our newest additions The Bat Cave.

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Cuban Amazon Parrot

Get a chance to see one of our Amazonian, flying all its way from the Cuba. The Cuban parrots can be distinguished by the red coloring of their head.

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Archer Fish

Come by our Archer fish demonstration to see their unique ability to squirt water up in the air and aim for their pray

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Motoro Rays

These are one of the unique species of Stingrays found in South America, their spotted patterning is distinctly unique for every individual animal.

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Sugar Glider Encounter

Experience up close encounter with the new members of The Green Planet, the Sugar Gliders, they are nocturnal mammals. They have a thin skin flap behind their arms which helps them to glide from one tree to another.