Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo Entry

About Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo

Emaar Entertainment Emaar Square Mall Istanbul, which houses the Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo, is not yet another mall. The Mall is a new-generation tourist attraction designed for foreign and domestic visitors from all over the world to shop, have fun, and experience flavor discoveries. Emaar Entertainment offers quite popular entertainment services such as Museum of Illusions, Bowling, and VR Room, especially for children Kaydırax, Hoopzone, The Jump; and explorers of all ages Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo.

Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo, which houses thousands of creatures, gives visitors the pleasure of diving underwater. If you define yourself as a nature-lover, traveler, or adventurer, you should add Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo to your Istanbul travel guide. Metropolitan life makes people draw away from nature each day. Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo will connect adults and children to animals that live in and near water. 

If you like exploring the unusual and are looking for other underwater tourist attractions in Istanbul, you can also stop by the Sea Life Aquarium Istanbul!

What Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo Includes

Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo is a place with tropical fish and other underwater species that will attract tourists, especially the animal-lover ones.Modern n design, magical atmosphere, and sea animals make it an exciting and fun tourist attraction. Marvelous aquatic creatures found in the seas, rivers, and oceans and brought from worldwide continue their lives in Emraar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo. Their new home, a tunnel-shaped huge aquarium, is located 3.5 meters below the ground.

This impressive aquarium has a capacity of 1.2 million liters of water that accommodates more than 20.000 aquatic creatures and amphibians of 200 species. The aquarium's creatures vary, including reptiles, tarantulas, crocodiles, penguins, scorpions, shellfish, iguanas, chameleons, and tropical fish. 

Thematic Sections

Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo's main tank includes various venues that host different aquatic creatures and contain different themes. The sections that each one is designed for visitors to feel like in nature by emulating the actual habitats of the animals are:

Rocky Shores

Rocky Shores section contains perhaps the most attractive and dangerous-looking underwater creatures coming from shallow oceans. Sharks, stingrays, shrimps, and other crustaceans brought from various world waters meet visitors in an aquarium environment where land and water coexist.

Tunnel Aquarium

Tunnel Aquarium is one of the most interesting buildings located in Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo. This glass tunnel is quite powerful, safe and allows you to monitor unusual aquatic creatures. This part of the aquarium is a trendy tourist attraction since you can feel like diving underwater in the middle of the diversity of sea life.

Dreamers Island is an ideal service for visitors who want to continue the experience of underwater in digital reality. With this unusual theme that will interest children, you can draw fish and dinosaur species on tablets and animate them digitally.
Forests take you to a green environment, allowing you to take a break from the blue atmosphere of the Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo. In this environment, you can encounter snakes, spiders, piranhas, crocodiles, and other fascinating underwater animals found in inland zoos.
Rivers and Falls stands out as another exciting and fun theme of Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo. Red-eared water turtles, playful otters, herbivorous piranhas, and stingrays that live in large glass spaces welcome visitors to this area. 
Penguin Island connects tourists with the Humboldt Penguins of South America in the center of Istanbul. You will have a chance to see these cute friends very closely without barriers here.
The Crocodile Kingdom consists of giant crocodiles that are both dangerous and fascinating, and you will want to get closer after a few moments of adrenaline. Here you can observe one of the enormous reptiles of the world, the King Croc, a whopping 750 kg and measuring over 5 meters. Let’s not forget his female partner, which is a 3-meters Queen!