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TurkuaZoo
Kocatepe Mahallesi, Paşa Cd 5/5, 34045 Bayrampaşa/İstanbul, Turkey Phone: +90 212 444 3 253 Average Price: US$ 2 per person wWw.visitsealife.com / turkuazoo.comAbout
Istanbul is home to Europe's largest aquarium! Istanbul Sea Life Aquarium (former Turkuazoo Istanbul Aquarium).
Turkey's first giant aquarium in Istanbul opened in 2009 and is located in the new Forum Istanbul in Bayrampasa. Forum Istanbul is one of Europe's largest shopping centers and the first shopping center in the world with a mega aquarium. Istanbul Sea Life offers family fun for those wishing to spend time in the underwater world, promising an unforgettable experience.
The next-generation aquarium in Istanbul, Turkey, is designed specifically to appeal to its Turkish audience and will entertain visitors with its rainforest, flooded forest, and tropical seas zones, a predator tank and jellyfish discovery area. The exciting 90m long Marinescape SeaTube, one of the world's longest underwater tunnels, will offer visitors a panoramic view of marine life.
The concept of the site plan design of 17 million Euro aquarium project has been considered as "fish skeleton". The total project will be 55,000 m2 big, With an impressive 7,000 m3 total tank capacity, making it the largest aquarium in Europe.
The large aquarium houses 25,000 sea creatures. Among them are the 2.5-metre-long tiger sharks, as well as smaller members of the sea predator family. Brave visitors who would like to see the sea creatures not just from the other side of the glass but from up close are able to dive and swim with them.
The water in the aquarium is from the Sea of Marmara, the inland sea that connects the Black and the Aegean Seas. The aquarium's first residents were brought to Istanbul by trucks and airplanes.
