Disney Facts: How Expedition Everest village was built
It is called the village of Serka Zong.
The base of Expedition Everest in Disney’s Animal Kingdom is the home to this mythical village that those entering the ride first visit. The three-story pagoda-type building was hand carved with 1,000 yeti images in Nepal, then shipped, aged and re-assembled in Animal Kingdom, according to Disney.
“The village includes Norbu and Bob’s Himalayan Escapes booking office, Tashi’s General Store and Bar, an old tea warehouse turned yeti museum, the elaborate wood and copper mandir, local homes and a towering monastery,” according to Disney public relations.
The architectural style and cultural references of the village are a hybrid of Tibetan, Nepalese and other design traditions found throughout the Himalayas.
Photographs from Imagineer Jeff Rohde, which he took for reference, are hung all over the village’s museum.
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