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The city under one roof: Inside Canada’s biggest mall that has its own pool, amusement park and indoor FOREST

  • West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, has 800 stores and parking for more than 20,000 vehicles
  • Mall - which was the world's largest until 2004 -  employs 23,000 people and receives 28.2 million visitors each year
  • Also boasts an ice skating rink an indoor lake which contains a a sea lion, a cinema and a hotel

By Sam Adams

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Boasting more than 800 stores and over five million square feet of space - North America's largest shopping mall is like a city beneath a glass roof.

The West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, has parking for more than 20,000 vehicles, a water park, an amusement park and even an indoor forest.

 

The giant mall employs more than 23,000 people and receives 28.2 million visitors each year.

 
Giant: As well as 800 stores, the West Edmonton Mall in Canada boasts a huge water park, a cinema, and an ice skating rink

Giant: As well as 800 stores, the West Edmonton Mall in Canada boasts a huge water park, a cinema, and an ice skating rink

 

 

 

 
Fun time: People riding tubes get splashed and overturned by waves in the water park at Edmonton Mall

Fun time: People riding tubes get splashed and overturned by waves in the mall's water park. The huge building was the world's largest mall until 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

Underwater, submarine rides is a feature of the amusement park inside the West Edmonton Mall
West Edmonton Mall, Alberta, Canada
 

Features: Visitors can take submarine rides in the mall's amusement park and take a stroll around its indoor forest. The site was opened in 1981

 
Fun: The mall even features a top class ice rink - seen here hosting an ice hockey game

Fun: The mall even features a top class ice rink - seen here hosting an ice hockey game. Shoppers take tim eout to watch from sides of the rink



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