It’s not unusual for a hotel lobby to have a fountain or indoor plants — but the atrium garden in this “Yester World” lobby is one-of-a-kind.

Read the YESTERLAND article HERE: Waterfall Garden at Disney’s Polynesian Resort

Welcome to the centerpiece of the Great Ceremonial House, as it looked for more than 40 years. Where other hotels have seating or a lobby bar, there’s a lava-rock mountain with colorful orchids, bromeliads, ginger, and anthurium plants, topped by a canopy of ferns, palms, ornamental banana plants, and other tropical foliage. Waterfalls cascade into small ponds — making the whole small mountain a visual and auditory delight.

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