Busch Gardens Africa

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay is a 335 acre 19th century African-themed park located in Tampa, Florida, which opened on March 31, 1959.
In 1965, the park opened its 29-acre (120,000 m2) Serengeti Plain animal habitat, the first of its kind to offer animals in a free-roaming environment. It is home to the Grevy’s zebra, reticulated giraffe, bongo, addax, addra gazelle, eland, impala, ostrich, marabou stork, East African crowned crane and sacred ibis.
In Bird Gardens, the original section of the park that opened back in 1959. The area for the most part remains to be mostly gardens and animal exhibits/shows, with birds like ara’s and birds of prey.
Other special animal exibits in the park are Myombe Reserve, with gorillas and chimpanzees, Edge of Africa, a walkthrough attraction with lions, hippos and hyenas. And there are the Curiosity Caverns with animals such as bats, snakes, lizards, tamarins, and sugar gliders.

But another large part of the park is for the many shows, thrillrides and rollercoasters.
Busch Gardens Africa is home to the first dive-coaster located in the USA, Sheikra.
Other rollercoasters in the park are Gwazi, a dualing wooden rollercoaster, Kumba, a sitdown multiloop rollercoaster, Montu, an inverted rollercoaster and 2 smaller rollercoasters, Cheetah Chase and Scorpion.

The park also has some waterrides, the logflume Stanley Falls Flume, a shute-the-shoot Tanganyika Tidal Wave and a rapid river Congo River Rapids.