Eilat Underwater Observatory (Oceanarium) in Israel, Eilat resort
Rating: 8,7/10 (2654 votes)  Eilat Underwater Observatory is the world's first complex located under water. The park was built on the initiative of Maurice Kahan in 1974. There is a huge aquarium on the territory of the complex, which currently houses more than 400 species of various fish and corals. Here you can observe such species of representatives of the underwater world as variegated fish, moray eels, herbivorous fish, coral dwellers, etc. The coral bottom of the aquarium is a faithfully recreated copy of a reef in the Red Sea. To get acquainted with marine predators it is worth visiting the large pool, where you can watch various shark species from a special bridge and through glass walls. In the Amazon Aquarium, guests of the complex can watch the life of toothy and eternally hungry piranhas, young crocodiles, a huge Anaconda, and other predators that live in the Amazon. Another pool located in the open air, in which is home to sea turtles. The pool was divided into 2 zones – for adult turtles, mainly females, and for younger individuals. The pool is also home to spotted stingrays – close relatives of sharks.    
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