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Main
Attractions:-
Kankaria
Zoo: Kamla
Nehru
Zoological
Park
was
established
by
Rueben
David
in
1851
CE
spread
over
21
acres.
It
was
rated
the
best
zoo
in
Asia
in
1974.
They
are
450
mammals,
2000
birds,
140
reptiles
in
a
31
acre
zoo.
It
is
a
treasure
of
wild
animals
like
tigers,
lions,
pythons,
anaconda,
snakes,
elephant,
albinos,
like
the
rhesus
monkey,
spotted
deer,
white
blackbuck,
chinkara,
emu,
jungle
babbler,
bush-quail
and
common
palm
civet.
Kankaria
Zoo
has
also
records
in
breeding
of
rare
species
in
Zoo
like
pythons,
crocodiles,
bearcats
and
wild
asses.
Rueben
David
was
awarded
Padma
Shri
in
1974
for
it.
Balvatika: It
is
a
Children’s
park
named
after
Jawaharlal
Nehru.
Balvatika
has
a
boat
house,
playroom,
butterfly
and
weapon
displays,
mirror
house,
toy
house
and
planetarium.
Presently
most
part
of
the
park
is
under
renovation.
New
rides
will
be
introduced
soon.
Amusement
Park: Netherlands
based
company
installed
five
rides
in
the
amusement
park
in
2014.
It
includes
the
Boomerang
Roller
Coaster,
the
Flipping
Arm,
the
Torching
Tower,
Disk
‘O’
pendulum
and
the
merry-go-round.
It
will
also
have
a
kids
play
zone
for
computer
games.
Kids
City: Kids
City
is
a
miniature
world
designed
for
kids.
It
is
spread
in
4240
sq.
metre
area
having
18
activity
centres
including
banks,
fire
station,
science
lab,
radio
station,
police
station,
court
room
and
prison,
dental
as
well
as
medical
hospital,
theatre,
BRTS,
heritage
gallery,
town
governance.
IT
Centre,
News
Room,
ice-cream
factory,
etc.
AMC
had
applied
for
copyrights
and
patents
on
the
individual
games
in
the
premises,
the
unique
point
system,
Virtual
Money
(Virmo)
and
the
design
of
the
different
venues
in
games.
Toy
Trains: A
train
named
Atal
Express
was
imported
from
London,
the
train
circles
the
lake
on
a
2.3
km
track
at
a
speed
of
10
km/h.
the
train
has
the
capacity
to
carry
150
passengers,
including
36
adults.
The
train
is
manufactured
by
Severn
Lamb.
During
the
first
11
months
of
introducing
the
train,
it
attracted
nearly
a
million
visitors.
After
the
success
of
this
train
was
also
started
which
named
Swarnim
Jayanti
Express.
All
trains
on
the
railway,
and
hence
the
railway
itself,
are
2
ft
narrow
gauge.
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