Bobbejaanland is the best amusement park for me, c...

Bobbejaanland is the best amusement park for me, cozy and ideal for families.
Bobbejaanland is an amusement park in Lichtaart, located between Herentals and Kasterlee in Belgium, and is named after its founder Bobbejaan Schoepen. The amusement park is located in a swampy area in the valley of the Kleine Nete.

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The name Bobbejaanland was coined by its manager Jacques Kluger. Central to the young Bobbejaanland was water fun, Texas trains, monorails and carousels, but above all show. Until the mid-1970s, the park was basically a variety show center, with a series of performances of one and a half hours each day. Mainly artists from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany performed, whether or not in Schepen's own program. The most famous names are: Louis Neefs, Rocco Granata, Staf Wesenbeek (father of Lynn), Leo Martin, Will Ferdy, Will Tura, Bobby Setter, Jimmy Ross (aka Mel Turner), Jan Theys, Staf Permentier, Liliane Saint-Pierre, the German actress and singer Ilse Werner, and her well-known fellow countrymen Rex Gildo, Michael Holm, and the Dutchman Rudi Carrell (who became Schoepens neighbor for a few years). In February 1969, the then BRT organized the TV show "Uit met Bobbejaan", recorded in and broadcast from Bobbejaanland.