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TAXIMAN's HOLY GRAIL YEARS CONTACT US       FORUMS       PBASE Welcome to the new home for Windsor Safari Park - resited in the summer of 2008 after five years with fasthosts Okay, now we are somewhere else so I recommend that you look to your left at the left hand column menu. This lists the premier areas of the site and if you have any Windsor Safari photos up your sleeve, particularly the Safari Vehicles on site and the Park 1982 - 1992 then PLEASE contact us with your photos!! The 1990s were the final and holy grail years of Windsor Safari Park The Elephant Gardens were just one of a dozen, truly magnificent achievements for the 1990s Windsor Safari Park. These following scans are from 2 pocket guides traced by Taximan from those final "holy grail" years of the Windsor Safari Park. The Moroccan Village, The Killimanjaro Toboggon ride, the Port Livingstone, the list just goes on and the Elephant Gardens quite rightly takes it's place on that grand list. The transformation from 1970s to 1990s safari is just quite breath taking - an enormous investment effort took place and these scans show the amazing results. The piccie (right) zooms to amazing quality and shows bottom right, a superb scene of the elephants having a wild time in their new garden, with Safari visitors up above on the new walkway enjoying the sight of the elephants - beautiful, just beautiful! The Moroccan Village is brand new and on the cover LIVE VIDEO VIEW DESCRIPTION MB DOWNLOAD V I E W 43MB   PRO     professional (clip) D O W N L O A D 43 V I E W 93MB   AMA       amateur (clip) D O W N L O A D 93 Open every day except Christmas Day. EXCEPT Christmas Day? I would have LOVED to go on Christmas Day! Can you imagine it? Well Boxing Day was almost as good, did any members visit on Boxing day? Why not jot down the story of your Boxing day visit in our legendary FORUMS? These were the years of the Themes International Era. The Safari Park had now been going for TWENTY YEARS and was very well established and respected. Did ANYBODY really think that the safari park WOULD NOT go on for another 20 glorious years? You must be kidding, it was full speed ahead and engage TURBO. These pocket guides truly show the wealth of diversity offered by the park in the final years. Children's safari club is launched for 4.95 In the centre pages of the 1990s pocket guide, a tear off coupon to send in, to join the Children's Safari Club. This was for children aged 4 - 14 and offered a great package of attractive items to the safari orientated youths of that time. For £4.95 the "safari club" was excellent value, providing for example a free £7.50 ticket!! SHOWS included the FAMOUS 'parrot show' - which during the summer would be completely packed out despite having rows of seating going up about 15' high and of course the wonderful 'Birds of Prey display'. A large arena and seating stand provided a superb facility for the Birds and their handlers. A wide range of birds were flown for an enthusiastic audience who, after the display, would be able to chat to the bird handlers and have a closer look at the magnificent Birds of Prey. You could go to the birds' aviary huts which were sited all along the far side of the arena, they had a lovely view of the boating lake which must have given them some food for thought.

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Who remembers the fabulous Parrot Show? The juggling parrots? The cycling Parrots? The Parrots knew SOOOO many tricks didn't they? And the kids just loved 'em too! In the late 1980s the Parrot Show was still doing a great trade and a brand new kids' adventure trail was built nearby. This was the second kids' assault course, because the first was already in existence down by the old Fort Windsor.

Next to the new kids' area was a brilliant sweet shop, wow do you remember going in there? A children's paradise, every sweet you could imagine. I have sadly never seen any photos of that sweet shop or the new kids' assault course either.

These photos were taken by Taximan during one of many visits by him to Windsor Safari Park. Good pictures for sure.

The Rhinos were pretty frightening looking but amazing to watch too. I always wanted to jump on one of them and ride them around the paddock - waving to the missus on the way around of course, would have made a few excellent snaps for the family album I'm sure!

The Moroccan Village was really quite amazing

The Moroccan Village was a new large scale project, including a street of new african shops.

It was almost like something out of Disneyland with the flags, bright colours and ambitious amount of new elements.

Pyramids and sphinxes were great to see and even a real Egyptian mummy! It was certainly something that Windsor Safari Park was really quite proud of, as it was given prominence in both pocket guides circulating in the 1990s.

<< You can get a view of a great Moroccan Street on offer, by looking on the bottom of this page, you could see that there was a huge potential for making this area even more amazing and I could imagine a couple of years on how much busier and lively that place could be but it was literally created at the dawn of destruction, WHAT A SHAME!!!

Some species are just built for each other. Like the giraffes and zebras and the whale and the dolphins. These quite happily co-existed alongside one another for years. Even the wolves and the bears got along quite well for a time, but who could the baboons get along with quite happily? Who could be given the same accommodation as those crazy baboons? Well they lived all in a world of their own which suited them really, I don't think they would've appreciated the wolves or the dolphins for that matter :-)

Serengeti Plain by Safari Road train is incredible

Well I don't know what the baboons thought of these new safari roadtrains, I mean - they must have wondered what on earth happened to all the cars surely!!

The roadtrains certainly did look smart and would have cut down on traffic going along the safari route for sure.

No more incidents of people getting out of their cars at the wrong moment and it stopped us from having picnics in our favourite reserves too!!

The trip along the safari route was certainly a highlight for many people, can any safari park in the UK equal that route even now?

The Killimanjaro Toboggan Ride was so wicked

The new rides being enstalled into the Safari Park in the final years, may have been seen by some as terrible commercialisation of a traditional safari park.

But was the park simply "trying to keep up with Chessington World of Adventures" ?

Any young family can tell you that these new facilities were the 'hook' that kept them coming back week after week for more.

Sure we loved the tigers, sure we adored the baboons, but the toboggan ride and the African Queen were the absolute "icing on the cake."

This wasn't JUST a safari park anymore, it was far far more.

It was a place that simply could not be ignored or dismissed, for ANYTHING!

The page is only complete with Taximan's prize winning snap of these feline adventurers! Let's see, a Tiger on the left a Lion on the right? And on the ground another Lion "just takes 5" .... well maybe 10 actually, what do you think?

Taximan, what a brilliant photo this is, I bet you stood there for a few minutes thoroughly enjoying this classic trio eh? Perfect harmony, just imagine being able to sleep THAT WELL! Ok Taximan, let's see if we can find a photo to top that one, it will take some finding.... but knowing you, it won't take long. F

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