The Must-Visit Edutainment Park: Eco Green Park
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As its name implies, Eco Green Park is an environmentally friendly place. This edutainment park is ready to teach us to love the earth and all its living creatures. Here, you may learn about recycling, composting, and biofuel production, as well as how to make cute and useful objects out of trash, all while having a good time at this educational amusement park.
Has 5 hectares big, Eco Green Park is also home to over a thousand species of exotic birds.
If you ask why I love this place? Well...
I enjoy this location and would highly recommend it to you because I genuinely adore animals.
In Eco Green Park, we can get closer to the animals, interact with them, feed them, and even learn to farm them. Yeah, sure, we can learn how to milk cows and more about farming in the Animal Farm area. Isn't that interesting?
Apart from that, the place is designed in a very unique and attractive way. The scenery is stunning, with greenery and mountain scenery to look at. Moreover, the air is refreshingly cool because Eco Green Park is located on the plateau of Batu, East Java. As a result, it is suitable to be visited with family, friends, or your loved ones.
THE ENTRANCE TICKET FOR ECO GREEN PARK
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The price for an entrance ticket to the eco green park is very cheap! Only IDR 50,000 for weekdays and IDR 75,000 for weekends, where it's equivalent to AU$ 5.
Because Eco Green Park is being operated by the JATIM PARK GROUP and is located right within the scope of the JATIM PARK 2 attractions, you can also buy a one-time pass for JATIM PARK 2 attractions that lets you visit Batu Secret Zoo, the Animal Museum, and Sweet Memories Selfie for just IDR 160,000 per person, where it's equivalent to AU$ 15.
With all the free rides and exhibits, the prices are very low and the deals are very tempting. But if you buy a pass ticket, remember that you have to spend the whole day at JATIMPARK 2 because of the vast area and the various rides. You want to take advantage of all the exciting rides, don't you?
In case you want to learn more about JATIM PARK 2, you should check out this article Jawa Timur Park 2 (JATIM PARK 2) Zoo for Your Family Trip
THE INTERACTIVE HOLIDAY AT ECO GREEN PARK
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Like its flagship jargon, Eco Green Park is an edutainment park that contains friendly animals, which we can interact with. For example, when visiting Eco Green Park, a school of koi fishes, several swans, and a group of flamingos will be there to greet you. You can get close to them and even feed them there.
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Of course, the opportunities to interact with the animals in this Eco Green Park are also scattered at various area, not only in the entrance area where you’ll be greeted by fishes and swans. Aside from that, there are also more things to do than just feeding and standing close to the animals, like:
Learn How to Farm
Walk further, and you will be presented with another interaction with other animals! At the Animal farm, for example, where you will meet farm animals such as cows, goats, and many more. You won't just get to pet and feed the cows here; you'll also learn how to milk them!
Take Photos with Exotic Birds
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Of course, you don't want to miss any of your vacation experience, right? So in several bird exhibition areas, you have to take pictures with domesticated birds, including parrots and eagles! Taking pictures with them doesn't cost anything, but if you want to print the photos directly there, you have to pay an additional fee.
Enjoy Your Meals Next to the Birds
There are many food courts spread around the eco green park area. What's unique about these food courts is that you may get the experience of eating alongside the birds! Like, eat right in front of the aviary in the walking bird area, or you can eat near where the peacocks are free to roam around.
**Fish Therapy or Ichthyotherapy **
This may sound like something you can do anywhere, but at Eco Green Park you can also experience fish therapy for free. Fish therapy or ichthyotherapy in Eco Green Park uses garra rufa fish to clean skin wounds and treat other skin conditions. All you have to do to enjoy this treatment is take off your shoes, dip your feet in the water and let the garra rufa nibble your toes!
LEARN to Live in an Eco-Friendly Way in ECO Green Park
As soon as you enter Eco Green Park, you will be greeted with animal replicas made from used goods, like an elephant replica made from more than 1,000 pieces of electronic waste, a cow replica made from the bodies of old cars, and many more.
Eco Green Park is not merely a farm zoo but will also teach you how to love and protect the earth. Here, you will learn how to recycle what you might call trashes-- making something that looks worthless has value.
In other spots in Eco Green Park, you will also find a broader range of recycled materials that are ready to amaze you.
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Eco Green Park also has eco science centre rides where you can learn about the earth's beginnings, natural disasters, environmental damage, coal mines, and volcanoes. Here, you will learn more about the earth's ecosystem.
But there are also other educational spots you can experience, like:
- Power Plant Simulation
- Water Gravity Pump Schematic
- Milk Processing Lab
- Biogas Park
- Mango Education House, and many more
THE BIRDS AT ECO GREEN PARK
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There are numerous bird collections at Eco Green Park where you can get close and interact with them! Not just that, but you can also learn about their habitat as well as their way of living.
Since this is an edutainment park, you can always get a piece of informations spread all over the park area. So make sure you learn them well.
As to give you a grand picture of the birds exhibition spots you can enter at Eco Green Park, I made you this list below:
- The walking bird
- Pinguin show
- World pheasant
- World of parrot
- Falk cockatiel
- Duck kingdom
- Owl house
- Eagle park
- Budgerigar
- Dove of the world
- White peacock, and many more
I know you want to know more, so here’s the map of the Eco Green Park Area:
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ANOTHER ANIMAL EXHIBITIONS
If you want to have a more exciting experience and even more knowledge, try watching some animal shows that are shown daily here!
Animal shows
You can watch several animal showcases in this Eco Green Park, including the jungle parrot show and the bird of prey show. Make sure your arrival time is right with the showing of the show.
- Burung Pemangsa (Bird of Prey)
- Burung Paruh Bengkok (Parrots)
- Ayam (Chickens)
- Rangkok (Hornbills)
- Unggas Air (Water Fowls)
Show time:
12:30 - 13:00 WIB and 15:30 - 16:00 WIB
TIRED OF ANIMALS? TRY THE OTHER RIDES
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Upside down house
A vast area of upside-down house replica. As the name implies, these rides will take you to the sensation of an upside-down house, where you walk on the ceiling while the furnitures are floating above you
Hanuman 3D cinema
Watch how Hanuman, a white monkey whose the leader of the monkey army in Hindu mythology, saves the world with the sensation of 3D cinema, where everything feels real.
Food court with kids playground
One of the food court stops in Eco Green Park allows your kids to enjoy the playground. Not merely a playground but also learning an eco-friendly way of living
Plaza music
One food court stop in Eco Green Park allows your kids to enjoy the playground. Not merely a playground but also learning an eco-friendly way of living
The jungle bugs
Escorted by a small train, you will be invited to tour the forest made by Eco Green Park. Here you will learn about insect habitats and how they live in the wilderness
Souvenir shop
If you enjoy your trip at Eco Green Park so much, you might want to bring some souvenirs from this educational park! So, you have to take a look at the souvenir shop here. Aside from souvenirs, you can also buy bee products like honey and many more.
Events
What's interesting about Eco Green Park, it also provides you with eco-friendly-themed events that you can enjoy or participate in. Like the recycle fashion show or free trees giveaway.
Final Thoughts
That's all I can say about Eco Green Park. Of course, it only covers some of what's on the park, but I hope it can give you an overview about the place. If you do love animals (like me) and want to learn more about an eco-friendly way of living, then Eco Green Park is a must-visit place for you!
