Adventureland at Disneyland Park – What You Need to Know

Many adventurers have dreamed of visiting faraway, mysterious or dangerous lands. They get a taste of that excitement in Adventureland, with the intrigue of a remote, tropical jungle set during the early to mid-20th century. Adventureland harkens back to a time when explorers ventured into unknown realms full of natural wonders. Voyagers explore the African rainforest (Tarzan’s Treehouse); India’s Lost Delta (Indiana Jones Adventure); Polynesian islands (Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room); and uncharted lands in Asia, Africa and South America (Jungle Cruise).

2 – What’s New

An exotic marketplace, The Tropical Hideaway, serves as an outpost for guests to discover the delicious tastes of bao buns and a refreshing Dole Whip. Set along the Jungle River waterfront, it’s the perfect spot to sit and relax in between adventures. Colorful wildlife can also be found at the Hideaway. After years of performing with the bird mobile chorus of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, Rosita is spreading her wings and taking flight toward a solo career. Guests will find her on the river’s edge at the loading dock waiting for her boat to arrive. This friendly bird makes small talk with world travelers passing through The Tropical Hideaway.

3 – Adventureland Attractions

Adventureland has fantastic attractions: the thrilling, high-speed Indiana Jones, Adventure, the Jungle Cruise, Adventureland Treehouse, and the classic Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room. For shopping, guests may find everything from snacks to sunscreen and sandals at Adventureland Bazaar.

Keep an eye out for sea voyager Moana as she greets guests and appears for photos near Adventureland Treehouse.

5 – Dining

• Guests entering the Temple of the Forbidden Eye, home of the Indiana Jones Adventure, will find countless hints of the adventure to come in the images and “Mara-glyphics” encountered along the temple passageways. Those in the know may be able to translate the Mara-glyphics, which are based on the English alphabet.
• The skippers of the Jungle Cruise lead a humorously irreverent expedition, carrying passengers along four rivers: the Nile of Africa, the Amazon of South America, the Irrawaddy of Southeast Asia and the Ganges of India.
• Paying tribute to the original treehouse that Walt Disney and his Imagineers built in 1962 for the movie “Swiss Family Robinson,” the Adventureland Treehouse inspired by Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson returned in a fresh, new way on November 10, 2023. The Adventureland Treehouse showcases wondrous new environments created amongst the branches of a giant tree, where guests can once again enter by the giant waterwheel and follow the wood rope stairways up, up, up into the boughs
• Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room was the first attraction to feature Disney’s Audio-Animatronics technology. The cast of crooners in the show features 225 animated singing birds, flowers and tikis. That includes eight macaws, 12 toucans, 12 tiki drummers and more than 50 orchids.
• The famous Dole Whip can be found at a kiosk in front of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, which originally was going to be a restaurant. In partial tribute to that dream, the Disneyland Hotel opened Trader Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar. Refreshing Dole Whip is also offered at The Tropical Hideaway.

• See something you like in an Adventureland shop? Purchase it while you’re there, and use the convenient package-hold service to pick it up later in the day. Ask a shop cast member about the nearest package-hold station.
• Don’t miss the beautiful bull elephants along the river’s edge in the Jungle Cruise. Walt Disney originally planned to have real animals from Africa inhabit the land. When he learned that real animals would hide or be too idle to be entertaining, he asked Imagineers to build the animals.
• Have some trivia fun when visiting Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room. Can your friends name the four birds that host the show? (Jose, Michael, Pierre and Fritz)
• Get your fortune told by a humorous genie when you rub a magic lamp at the Adventureland Bazaar, or get any illness diagnosed by “Shrunken Ned,” a suspended shrunken head. Both are coin-operated.
• Visit Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room in the afternoon, enjoying a cool place to sit and enjoy a refreshing Dole Whip. Seats in the back rows against the wall have backrests.