When it was completed in 1998. West Edmonton Mall in Canada was the largest shopping mall in the world . Within its 493, 000 square metres, you can find more than 800 shops, including six major department stores. You can buy everything from skateboards to football boots and from boxes of chokolates to tea cups. If you get hungry, there are at least 100 places to eat.
The mall is also a giant entertainment centre, with the world`s largest indoor amusement park, an enormous water park, dolphin shows, a huge ice skating rink, the world`s largest indoor man-made lake where you can travel in a real submarine, a miniature golf course and 26 cinames. Milions of tourists from around the world visit this mall and many of them stay in hotels like fantasyland, which has 358 rooms.
Of course, the size is not always always an advantage. The mall has 58 entrances so it`s important to remember where you came in. It has over 20,000 parking spaces, so you mustn`t Forget where you left your car . You can get very sore feet because the mall is as big as 104 football pitches. If you want to be one of more than 326,000 light bulbs.
