The Green Planet
Dubai is not by any means green. But for those of us who like to pretend, there’s The Green Planet, Dubai’s indoor tropical rainforest. It’s a standalone bio-dome that is home to over 3,000 plants and animals. Seemed perfect for entertaining visitors, and with Gramps and Bethan (the girls’ grandparents) in town, we decided to check it out.
Dubai likes superlatives and here we encountered another one - the largest indoor life-sustaining man-made tree in the world. It was a pretty impressive fake tree serving as a home to exotic birds (toucans, parrots, etc. flying around), a sloth, chameleons, porcupines and other random animals.
It was fun getting to see, touch, and learn about the various animals in the bio-dome, and it felt wonderfully refreshing to breathe clean air. I loved the leaf-cutter ant colony and the brown/turquoise chameleon. The entrance fee was a little steep but my folks definitely got their money’s worth - Gramps got to hold a hissing cockroach (eeewwwwwwwww!) and Bethan got pooped on by a toucan. I’d call this experience a win.
