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African Lion Safari
RR #1, Cambridge
http://www.lionsafari.com/index2.asp

Visit our large drive-through wildlife park and you will surely have a wild experience! View and photograph 1000 unique and rare mammals and birds who are roaming freely,waiting to meet you. The Safari Trail takes you through prides of lions, troops of baboons and herds of zebra. You will see big cats, baboons, white rhino, ostrich, aoudad, eland, giraffe and many other exotic and native species. Travel through the reserves in your own vehicle (keep your windows closed!) or park your car and let an informative tour guide drive you through this wild kingdom in our air-conditioned Safari Tour Bus (additional cost). The drive through tour will take about one hour, the rail and boat tours and shows take approximately twenty minutes each and the average stay for a family visit is five to seven hours. Relax and enjoy yourself!



Doon Heritage Crossroads
10 Huron Road, Kitchener
http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/doon

Doon Heritage Crossroads is a living history museum, re-creating a rural village and two farms, where costumed interpreters welcome you to the year 1914. Over twenty historic buildings, period furnishings, farm animals, heritage gardens, and demonstrations of daily chores help 40,000 visitors annually to discover an exciting era of change in Canadian history.



Southworks Outlets & Antiques
64 Grand Avenue South, Cambridge
http://www.southworks.ca/

Southworks Outlet Mall is named after the South Works of Babcock & Wilcox. Dumfries Foundry, is the forerunner of B & W, and was founded in 1844 by James Andrews and James Crombie. The foundry was located on a site which is commonly thought to be where the Cambridge Bus Depot is now located.

Bacock & Wilcox continued at the South Works site until the building was sold in 1987. Today there are still many traces of antique machinery around the property. Two overhead cranes in the Mill building are capable of lifting 25 and 40 tons respectively. A line shaft of old wooden reels is still attached to the ceiling in Cambridge Towels Mill Outlet. Keep your eyes posted for other artifacts as you shop in these old buildings.



Wings Of Paradise
2500 Kossuth Road, Cambridge
http://www.wingsofparadise.com/

Paradise Awaits! Enter a lush tropical garden bursting with life! Featuring 100's of free-flying butterflies and 75 different species of flowering plants, trees and bushes.

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