Everland is a famous amusement park in a hilly area, around 60km from Suwon.
Started with a show of 2 stallions(seal). They could clap, dance a little, dive from various heights, pick up balls u throw, understand variety of human orders like choosing the right football card from a pack of cards with images of various balls. As the crowd's voice grow, they could clap fast. Though the entire show was in korean, I could understand little what the trainers spoke (though not much better than the stallions)
The crowd was extremely lively.. We are always proud at such things, aren't we??
Then went straight to 2 much-hyped rides. One was called Double-X train, n the other Double Rock Spin. Double - X Train was terrific, it takes you slowly till certain height, takes a turn, comes down fast on another plane and makes two 0s (rather two X - twice you sit against gravity), one more turn n you are back at where you started. People usually survive by screaming out real loud or by closing their eyes. I'm not sure why, but chose option 2. I've not been to any of such rides before, and at the end of this one, felt world swirling around me.. They also showed pictures of everyone how they reacted when the train made the first 0 (or X), n yeah, i really had my eyes wide shut.
Immediately I took the second one - Rock spin. This was too much hyped by my colleagues. When I saw, it did not look bad because they put some fancy guitar n keyboard shaped boards around it. It had a huge rectangular frame with the 2 midpoints of length mounted onto a fixed frame. People sit across the breadth of it (only 1 end). It will take you up (slowly as you expect it), then drop you straight down and swing twice(here's the actual spin) like a pendulum. Stop, and again start (little faster now), take you up, drop you, spin again. Here again, I chose option 2 to survive. But this was extremely horrible because of the spin. When I was sitting there, I could hear myself saying F*@K repeatedly till I got down. And when I was out of it, saying "is this really fun" ??
I temporarily vowed myself not to take any of such rides again, had a coffee (hoping to get back to reality) and left that place.
The worst was over.
Then took few junk rides (after taking above 2, all others were insignificant) - a water ride (circular dinghy that can hold 6 ppl), a ride called mystery mansion (though this was for kids), usual space mania (where they shake ur chairs n show some stupid space video), bumping car.
A jungle safari whose hosts were few groaning lions, sleeping tigers, hungry bears in one small island, n some giraffes, deers n elephants on the other. The wild ones looked too fed up with trying to pose for buses all day. Note - I could see a Lion's mouth with my mouth 1 feet away from it.
One notable junk ride was 'Global Village' where they had huge rooms filled with thousands of dolls (navrathri golu). Dolls in each room depicted a country's culture (note: only developed n developing nations were present). Yeah, India was depicted with dolls of Kings on elephants and snake charmers. This was a pretty long ride n was really worth, the Decor was too good..
Then Super Bobsleige - where u can sit on a metal plank n ski... first, i was afraid if i would lose control n topple over when i make turns, since plane looked too steep. when i actually sat, it was too cool. breaks were good n u have very good control.
At 8, Parade started. Whole place was lit off n huge chariots illuminated with different themes went around on the roads (sort of evolution kinds.. some viruses, then flowers, trees, then fishes n finally humans). Took around 1 hour.
Around 9, thousands of ppl sat for the Laser show(or should i call it fire show!!) - Some korean story (yeah, good n evil) was being staged on a european(!!) amphitheatre. They had a huge dragon (more than 50 feet) n fire coming out of its mouth. n then bombs of fire would explode near the puny hero.. then our hero would send lightning n cause water fountains of great heights. finally the dragon gets destroyed in the battle n our hero puts enthu with our heroine which triggers the crackler show..
My god.. so many varieties of cracklers (rockets).. it took around 15 mins. it was amazing to watch amidst the highly enthusiastic mob.
I couldn't get a vegetarian burger when I really wanted it (burgers looked so tempting n i was hungry too). N finally when I asked for the way to the exit, I was shown the way to the restroom.
A Day for 30$. Back to Room, Sweet Room.
