Sights in Torquay & Paignton
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Paignton Zoo
This 80-acre site is dotted with spacious enclosures re-creating habitats as varied as savannah, wetlands, tropical forest and desert. Highlights are the crocodile swamp, orang-utan island, vast glass-walled lion enclosure, and a lemur wood, where you walk over a plank suspension bridge as the primates leap around in the surrounding trees.
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Living Coasts
A vast open-plan aviary bringing you up close to free-roaming penguins, punk-rocker style tufted puffins and disarmingly cute bank cormorants.
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Kent's Cavern
At Kent's Cavern, expect a stalactite to drip water on your head and temperatures of 14°C in an atmospheric, prehistoric subterranean world. These caves were inhabited in the Stone Age, making them the oldest homes in Britain. The animals that roamed Torbay then were a mite different too - guides lead you past hyena's lairs, cave bear dens and mammoth teeth.
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Cockington Country Park
Cockington Country Park is a 450-acre patch of calm green space just a mile inland from Torbay's seafront bustle. Its heavily thatched village (complete with Lutyens pub) is pretty, if more than a little touristy, but the rose garden, craftsmen's workshops and cricket pitch (check to see if a match is on at the weekend) are delightful.
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Torre Abbey Sands
Torbay boasts no fewer than 20 beaches, and a surprising 22 miles of coast. Tourists flock to the central Torre Abbey Sands (covered by water at very high tides); the locals opt for the sand and shingle beaches below the 240ft red-clay cliffs at Babbacombe. These can be accessed by a glorious 1920s funicular railway.
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Babbacombe
Torbay boasts no fewer than 20 beaches, and a surprising 22 miles of coast. Tourists flock to the central Torre Abbey Sands (covered by water at very high tides); the locals opt for the sand and shingle beaches below the 240ft red-clay cliffs at Babbacombe. These can be accessed by a glorious 1920s funicular railway.
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Babbacombe Model Village
Babbacombe Model Village is a fabulously eccentric, 4-acre world in miniature. Complete with a tiny Stonehenge, football stadium and beach, it's all inhabited by bizarre, Lilliputian people.
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Torquay Museum
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Beaches
Torquay boasts no fewer than 20 beaches and a surprising 22 miles of coast. Holidaymakers flock to the central Torre Abbey Sands (covered by water at very high tides); the locals opt for the sand-and- shingle beaches beside the 240ft red-clay cliffs at Babbacombe. These can be accessed by a glorious 1920s funicular railway; a memorable trip in a tiny wooden carriage that shuttles up and down rails set into the cliff.
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