1 … Orlando Helitours, taking you up over Kissimmee and the SeaWorld and Disney theme parks (more pictures at M&I)
2 … GPMINI to get to and from the helicopter 😉
GPMINI and helicopter
Two ways to fly
Disney Wilderness Preserve
About half an hour from 8002 is the Disney Wilderness Preserve, created with 8,500 acres of preserved land in the 1990’s – mostly to offset Disney’s non-wildlife friendly activities elsewhere in their property, and to enable the building of Celebration (see Disney’s interesting history viewpoint).
Paul & Sheila visited during their trip last year and told us about it, so we decided to visit today – one strong recommendation though, is NOT to visit in the middle of the day, without water, when the sun is strong with temperature in the 80s! Phew!
There’s a trail winds it’s way through the preserve, taking you through prairie-like flat land, to thick trees and a Mangrove-surrounded lake, before looping back through the “prairie” to parking …
Animal Kingdom
After the Helicopter trip, we all headed over to Animal Kingdom – first stop, Kali River Rapids where we expected to get extremely wet, but didn’t (although a couple of kids in the same raft got soaked!); after that, it’s all animals (apart from the “tree lady”)!
We finished the day with The Festival of the Lion King …
M&I / GBMINI 