Dinosaurs Are Coming to Dubai : Kathika Travel Website

Are you one of the uncannily large number of people who find dinosaurs absolutely fascinating, even if they’ve been extinct for many, many lifetimes? Then you’ll be keen to hear the news of the biggest ever dinosaur-related tourist attraction that’s just been announced in Dubai.

The Restless Planet project, recently announced and due to open in 2010, will be located inside the City of Arabia complex, another typically large Dubai construction which will also contain apartments, shops, offices, restaurants and even schools. Being described as an “electronic media and natural history experience”, the Restless Planet attraction is basically the Jurassic Park movies come to life, only – hopefully – without the danger.

With a bunch of experts on the job, including Jurassic Park consultant paleontologist Jack Horner plus scientists from the Natural History Museum of London, the Restless Planet will include life size animatronic dinosaurs whose breath will realistically stink, and they’ll even react to the movements of visitors. If you like up, you’ll see pterodactyls flying around and there will be water features full of dinosaurs, too.

In all, the combination museum/theme park will take up two large buildings, divided by time period and vegetation. There are also plans to have revolving exhibitions and special events to keep attracting visitors back again and again.