SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 45
The floating mountains of the moon of
Pandora at Disney’s Animal Kingdom
are one of the many images recreated
from the film Avatar.
Home to the Na’vi people from James
Cameron’s blockbuster 2009 film Avatar,
the theme park’s Na’vi River Journey lets
you float down a mystical river, where you
will be overwhelmed with the magical
beauty of this imaginary world, and you
will even encounter a Na’vi shaman.
However, for those who love adventures,
the Avatar Flight of Passage will pair you
with an Avatar being, so that you can feel
the exhilaration of roaring over Pandora
on the back of a “mountain banshee,” one
of the strange creatures that inhabit this
incredible world. As you ride the banshee,
you will even feel its “body” move as it
fills its lungs with air to gain the energy
to provide you with the ride of your life.
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Plants such as this bring
the moon of Pandora to
life for visitors.