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International Drive:
If you've already overdosed on fast food, neon signs and conspicuous consumption, this five-mile long 'strip', more commonly known as I-Drive, could be the final straw.
Home during the day to shoppers grabbing bargains at the Belz Factory Outlet, Pointe Orlando Mall and Mercado Village, it buzzes by night with myriad restaurants, bars and nightclubs.
But if you do fancy eyeing up the 'I', hop on the I-Ride System, a trolley service that operates a shuttle service up and down the Drive from 7am to midnight. $2 buys you a day pass (under 12s are free).
Ripley's Believe It Or Not!:
One of I-Drive's attractions you would do well to miss, unless you have a particular penchant for freak shows.
The displays, based on American cartoonist and adventurer Robert Ripley's finds, include a two-headed cat, shrunken heads and the world's fattest man.
Other less distasteful oddities on show include a Rolls Royce made of matchsticks and a Mona Lisa on a piece of toast. Strange...
Cypress Gardens:
A bizarre combination of attractions - floral displays and waterskiing - are married together in Florida's oldest theme park (opened in 1936), and while the flora and the cypress-fringed lake is undeniably beautiful, the whole experience is, even by theme park standards, just a bit too cheesy and kitsch.
Almost the strangest thing about Cypress Gardens are the 'photo opportunity' models who, dressed in garish Southern Belle frocks, wander serenely around the gardens posing obligingly for visitors' cameras.
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