Pangani Forest Exploration Trail

Pros: Easy trails to walk with delightful sights and creatures to encounter...Wheel Chair accessible
Cons: Can be very crowded and very hot in summer

During our visit to Animal Kingdom a few months ago, we had decided on a game plan, so we rushed right over to the Kilimanjaro Safari ride as soon as we entered the park. This had been suggested to us by my daughters since it was morning and the animals ...

Pros: Silverback Gorillas & Okapi exhibits
Cons: Crowds at hippos and gorillas

Pangani Forest On a recent trip to Walt Disney World, we spent a day at the Animal Kingdom. Our first course of action was to get a FASTPASS for the Kilimanjaro Safari, but the next question was what to do until our return time for the ...

Pros: gorillas, staff by gorillas, feels like a nature trail
Cons: empty aviary, rodent room unstaffed, gorillas not always out

Disney's Animal Kingdom is an interesting meld of amusement park and zoo. In keeping with this, there are several sections of the park that offer walking trails through or past animal enclosures. One of these is the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail, a ...

Pros: Gorilla and to see the natural settings they are in
Cons: I would have to say the walking

Pangani Forest Exploration Trail is located at the exit of the Kilimanjaro Safari ride. This exploration trail is a self walking tour and it will take you through several animal exhibits. The first animal exhibit you will see is Naked mole rats. ...

Pros: Natural settings are well done
Cons: Crowded!

Animal Kingdom's Pangani Forest Exploration Trail well done but suffers greatly from overcrowding. Perhaps they should devise some kind of system similar to fast pass, but where you are assigned a time to go on the trail, and there is a limit the...

Pros: Amazing animals, well done
Cons: None

My family and I happened up Pangani Forest quite by accident. We picked up our Fast Passes to Kilimanjaro Safaris and then looked around to see where we could go next until it was out turn on the Safari. We started walking and before I knew it, we were...

Pros: Many wonderful things to see
Cons: walking in the heat

Unless your visit to Disney is carefully planned indeed, some of what you see and what you miss will be determined by luck. My wife and I at first treated the Pangani forest exploration trail as a way to get from one attraction to another - sort of like...