Difference between revisions of "Theme Park"
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'''Ratanga Junction'''[http://www.ratanga.co.za/], Cape Town | '''Ratanga Junction'''[http://www.ratanga.co.za/], Cape Town | ||
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'''uShaka Marine World'''[http://www.ushakamarineworld.co.za/], Durban | '''uShaka Marine World'''[http://www.ushakamarineworld.co.za/], Durban | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:58, 23 November 2015
A Theme Park is really a focused or specialized form of amusement park, which has its activities and features focused on a specific theme, historic period, activity ands so on. Often closely aligned to or combined with a museum.
In many ways theme parks are also performative in nature, providing spaces in which (anthropological, technological, historical, futuristic, etc ) re-enactments, reconstructions, and related activities take place.
Some South African theme parks
Crocodile Creek[1], Durban
Gold Reef City, Gauteng[2]
Ratanga Junction[3], Cape Town
Sun City, Northwestern Province[4]
uShaka Marine World[5], Durban
Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum[6] , Pretoria
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