{"id":397634,"date":"2025-10-24T14:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=397634"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:30:49","slug":"saudi-arabia-opens-amazon-inspired-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-arabia-opens-amazon-inspired-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia opens Amazon-inspired park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 A temporary Amazon-inspired water park opened this week in Saudi Arabia. Called Amazonia Awakens, the attraction is located at Boulevard World in Riyadh as part of Riyadh Season, an annual festival held in the city, usually from October to March, bringing entertainment, culture, and tourism to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/amazonia-awakes-1-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"Amazonia gives name to water park\" class=\"wp-image-397629\" style=\"width:302px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/amazonia-awakes-1-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/amazonia-awakes-1-600x335.jpg 600w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/amazonia-awakes-1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/amazonia-awakes-1-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/amazonia-awakes-1-450x251.jpg 450w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/amazonia-awakes-1-1200x669.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/amazonia-awakes-1.jpg 1278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Amazonia gives name to water park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The attraction offers visitors adventure and imagination, with visual effects, Saudi state news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spa.gov.sa\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPA<\/a> reported. Guests are taken on an immersive story inspired by the mystique of tropical forests and Amazon-inspired design. The experience begins aboard a boat that glides through ruins and a tunnel with sounds, lights, and effects. The climax is a boat drop with a gigantic wave. The entire experience lasts ten minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riyadh Season began on October 10, and in just 13 days, it attracted one million visitors, according to Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the Saudi General Entertainment Authority. The festival opened with a street parade featuring floats, performances, special effects, and vibrant colors. Boulevard World, one of the festival\u2019s venues, will remain open until May 2, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/agency-promotes-tourism-in-saudi-arabia\/\">Agency promotes tourism in Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/agency-promotes-tourism-in-saudi-arabia\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/agencia-promove-turismo-na-arabia-saudita\/\"><br><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-397627\">Saudi Press Agency (SPA)<\/div><div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-397629\">Saudi Press Agency (SPA)<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an entertainment festival held in the Saudi capital from the end of one year to the beginning of the next, a water attraction inspired by the Amazon rainforest was inaugurated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":397627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3066],"tags":[3243,54778,10968,54776,12730,1918,9595,54777],"class_list":{"0":"post-397634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-amazonia-awakens-2","10":"tag-entertainment-en","11":"tag-forest-2","12":"tag-leisure-en","13":"tag-riyadh","14":"tag-saudi-arabia-en","15":"tag-water-park"},"wps_subtitle":"As part of an entertainment festival held in the Saudi capital from the end of one year to the beginning of the next, a water attraction inspired by the Amazon rainforest was inaugurated.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}