While staying in the beautiful North GA mountains in your Blue Ridge vacation cabin rental, visit the Georgia Aquarium for a fun day trip with family and friends!
The Atlanta Georgia Aquarium is adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta and sits on 9.5 acres of land and is located next door to the World of Coca Cola. The exterior of the building was designed to look like a giant ship breaking through a wave.
Predators of the Deep
The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, GA is one of the world's largest aquariums with more than eight million gallons of water and more aquatic animals than any other aquarium. Get up close and face to face with the predators of the deep - whale sharks manta rays and piranhas! In fact, a new shark exhibit just opened in 2020.
There are 60 exhibits at the Atlanta Georgia Aquarium with 12,000 square feet of viewing windows. Georgia Aquarium boasts a 100-foot long tunnel and the largest aquarium window in the western hemisphere with views into the whale shark habitat. The second largest habitat, 800,000 gallons, was specially designed to simulate the natural habitat of beluga whales.
There are Five Galleries to visit in the Georgia Aquarium which depict five different habitats ranging from arctic to tropical.
Unlike most aquariums, the Georgia Aquarium does not follow a linear layout, instead allowing guests to decide their own path and the order in which they visit each gallery....
While staying in the beautiful North GA mountains in your Blue Ridge vacation cabin rental, visit the Georgia Aquarium for a fun day trip with family and friends!
The Atlanta Georgia Aquarium is adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta and sits on 9.5 acres of land and is located next door to the World of Coca Cola. The exterior of the building was designed to look like a giant ship breaking through a wave.
Predators of the Deep
The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, GA is one of the world's largest aquariums with more than eight million gallons of water and more aquatic animals than any other aquarium. Get up close and face to face with the predators of the deep - whale sharks manta rays and piranhas! In fact, a new shark exhibit just opened in 2020.
There are 60 exhibits at the Atlanta Georgia Aquarium with 12,000 square feet of viewing windows. Georgia Aquarium boasts a 100-foot long tunnel and the largest aquarium window in the western hemisphere with views into the whale shark habitat. The second largest habitat, 800,000 gallons, was specially designed to simulate the natural habitat of beluga whales.
There are Five Galleries to visit in the Georgia Aquarium which depict five different habitats ranging from arctic to tropical.
Unlike most aquariums, the Georgia Aquarium does not follow a linear layout, instead allowing guests to decide their own path and the order in which they visit each gallery.
Ocean Voyager – Journey with Giants is the largest single habitat in the world. Guests are given several views at different angles into the large exhibit, including a 100-foot long tunnel that surrounds guests with water and animals on three sides. The gallery also features the largest aquarium viewing window in the western hemisphere, giving guests an amazing view of four whale sharks, the largest fish in the world, and manta rays, the only ones in the United States. The Georgia Aquarium is the only aquarium to display whale sharks outside of Asia. The Aquarium is also home to the largest collection of giant grouper, potato grouper, humphead wrasse, tarpon, giant trevally, batfish, sawfish, blacktip reef sharks, great hammerhead sharks and wobbegong sharks. No other aquarium in the country has ever attempted the variety and size of fish in this major exhibit.
Cold Water Quest – The Chilly Unknown features animals from the icy waters of the polar regions to the temperate seas of California, South Africa and south Australia. Within the gallery guests can gaze at charismatic beluga whales, sea otters and a giant pacific octopus. Weedy sea dragons, one of the most intricate animals in the Aquarium, practice the art of disguise in their exhibit.
Tropical Diver – The Coral Kingdom is a gallery where time slows down as guests view graceful jellies,curious garden eels and other jewels of the sea. The gallery, whose entrance features an underwater perspective of the habitat, was designed to be peaceful and relaxing, from the fish and tropical coral reefs within to the lighting and music throughout. Deeper into the gallery, guests are mesmerized by an enormous and brightly-lit reef, filled with artificial and live corals. This 164,000-gallon exhibit is the largest living coral reef exhibit in any U.S. aquarium, and it is home to thousands of vibrantly-hued blue, purple, pink, yellow, orange, green and red tropical fish. This recreation of a pacific barrier reef is completed by an overhead synthesized crashing wave.
River Scout – Freshwater Mysteries gives guests an opportunity to discover a wide diversity of animals found in the rivers of Africa, South America, Asia and even in Georgia. River Scout is the only freshwater gallery in the Aquarium while the other 98 percent of the Aquarium is composed of saltwater. This gallery presents a themed environment of waterfalls, logjams and the only overhead river featured in an aquarium, giving guests an unusual perspective. A pop-up window allows kids to get an up-close look at the razor-sharp teeth of the piranha.
Georgia Explorer – Discover Our Coast, is a highly interactive gallery that includes a large children’s play area, a simulated shrimp boat and touch pools featuring bonnethead sharks, cownose rays, horseshoe crabs, sea stars and shrimp. In this gallery guests can explore the coast of Georgia, discovering Atlantic spadefish and robust redhorse suckers, which were believed to be extinct for more than 100 years before being rediscovered in the Oconee River in 1991. Throughout the gallery, guests are entertained and educated by the important animals that live along the Georgia coastline.
The 4D Theater
The 4D Theater is one of the most advanced in the world, employing interactive seats and unique special effects that are built into the theater itself. By creating a set of “4D” effects that are synchronized to the film production, the 4D Theater adds another layer of immersive fun for audiences. Join Deepo, an orange garibaldi fish and the Aquarium’s mascot, as he takes the audience on an undersea adventure with a variety of entertaining characters, including friendly sharks, singing sea turtles and playful dolphins. Check out the Sea Lion presentation and the Dolphin presentation.
