Where In The World Wednesday!

Happy Wednesday!  It's time to visit the "happiest place on earth" (cheesy sounding but very true).  Ready?  Here we go! 

Last week's mystery location is..... (drum roll)....

It's the "Astro Orbiter"!!  A spaceship type ride located at the top of Future World in The Magic Kingdom.  You take an elevator up to the ride and then get in your "spaceship".  Once the ride starts you are able to control the height of your ship, moving it up and down at whim.  It offers amazing views of The Magic Kingdom and is supposed to be extra cool to ride at night.  Though it was enjoyable, it was a really long wait for a relatively short and simple ride (and Ralph wasn't thrilled with the heights).  So we probably wouldn't do this one again.

Who's that pilot?!

And now onto the clues for this week's mystery location...

This is actually one of my top 5 Favorite Attractions in The World, so I have a lot of photos!  Disney World regulars should recognize our location immediately.  If you've never been there before you might think we're in Africa (that is a good clue in itself)!

A sign as we enter our mystery location!

We are seeing Sable Antelope.  Notice how close we are to them by the sides of our vehicle appearing in the bottom of the photo.  



Greater Flamingos!  I love these beautiful birds!  If you look closely there's another type of bird in this photo.  That's right, it's a duck!  Ducks seem to pop up in every attraction at Walt Disney World since people continually feed them (though it's dangerous to the birds and not allowed). 



Warthogs!  That little guy in the front is Pumba, I believe. 

We are seeing Nile Hippopotamus.  Amazing and somewhat scary at the same time!

This photo shows 2 animals...Grant's Zebra and Ostrich.  Wow, I feel like we are about to enter the race seen in the "Swiss Family Robinson" movie!  A Disney classic and one of my personal favs.

White Rhinoceros.  It's just unfathomable to me how people could hunt and kill amazing creatures like these. 

We are seeing White-Bearded Wildebeest here! 

I saw this animal for the first time ever in our mystery location.  It's an Okapi!

This photo shows you how ridiculously close our mystery location allows you to get to the animals...like these Giraffe!

A Reticulated Giraffe eating leaves.  Check out his black tongue!

I was literally thisclose to this guy while getting this shot.  You can see the roof of our vehicle on the top right of the photo.  It looks like he's smiling and I think he was being a ham for the cameras that day!

Here is the King Of The Jungle on top of Pride Rock surveying his domain!

My favorite African animals...African Elephants!  They are such intelligent and family-oriented creatures.  Do you see the baby behind his mother in the middle?

A close up shot of mother and baby.

Well, that's all I've got!  I'll see you next week!