To enter Disney's Animal Kingdom you travel through the Oasis. Along the trails there are several exhibits to stop and see. he Oasis is the parks entrance area and all the trails until you get to the bridge where you see the tree of life. Also this section of the park is where you will find all the guest services you need.

The icon of Disney's Animal Kingdom is the Tree of Life which is located near the center of the park and the center of Discovery Island (not to be confused with the original Discovery Island in Bay Lake, which was closed after Animal Kingdom opened). For the best views of the tree be sure to explore the trails around the area, we highly recommend the old Tough to Be a Bug queue (located behind where Flick is usually posed for pictures). The best experience I had with the TOL garden was walking around at sunset. This was as the park was closing and there were no people on the trails. It was a great way to stop and absorb the details.

The Tough to Be a Bug show was not as good as I would have hoped for though(For those of you on the West Coast, the show is an exact clone of the DCA one). The effects and presentation of the show were really good, but the storyline was not that strong. I thought they could have done more. It seemed as if they were just using the story to string the special effects together. Unlike other shows where I feel that the special effects give an added bonus to the film(like Honey I Shrunk the Audience), in this movie I think the film just acts as the glue to the special effects. The best way to do this is to go see the "Its Tough to be a Bug" movie. The movie is worth seeing, not worth a long wait though.

• The Oasis Exhibits (Opened: Apr 22, 1998)

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• The Tree of Life is 14 stories tall and is 50 ft wide
• Ten artists and three imagineers worked full-time for 18 months to create the 325 carvings on the Tree Of Life.
• The Tree of life is toped with more than 103,000 translucent , five shades of green leaves that actualy blow in the wind.
  
  

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