Nithin Kamath’s Weblog

Wonder la, the amusement park on the outskirts of Bangalore was the hangout place this past Saturday. The group included Aditi, Gaurav, Mathan, Priyanka, Pooja, Vineet, Vineet (not a mistake, two of them!), Vinita, Vivek and myself. Since the place was on the outskirts we had hired a tempo for the trip, set off on it at 11:30 am and reached Wonder la at around noon.

Our first reaction was just amazing, the parking lot and the area outside the park was really beautiful and well maintained, Kudos to the management. Each of us shelled out Rs.600/- for the entrance ticket and went into the amusement park. When we entered inside the park, the whole scene inside (the souvenir shops, the food stalls, the theme areas etc) all reminded me of ‘Roller Coaster Tycoon 2‘ a game which I played some 5-6 years back, which was all about managing an whole amusement park. All the rides mentioned and which were visible clearly bought back memories of the hours I spent playing this game.

We quickly got a locker, stacked our belongings into it and headed to the dry rides (the whole park is divided into two area, dry rides and wet rides). There were lots of rides and time was less, so we hurried through almost all of them as soon as possible. Some were good, some were kiddish, and some were amazing. As per the group the best rides were ‘Mixer’, ‘Drop Zone’ and one more (I can’t recollect the name of the ride), so if you are there don’t miss these rides. Also the ‘Sky Walker’ (Giant wheel on top of a very very long tower) is worth it, but due to the height the giant wheel moves very slow.

It was almost 2:30 by the time we finished with the dry rides so we had lunch at one of the in-house restaurants. After the food, quickly changed for the water rides and the first on the target was ‘Water Splash’. The ride was so cool that we took the ride 3-4 times continuously. Then moved on to slides, waves, rain disco before winding up the day in the lazy river. Took some rest and headed back to Bangalore, had dinner and I believe most of us ended up viewing India knock out Aussie to book a place in the final of the T20-20 WC finals where they will be facing the arch rival Pakistan!

All in all, it was a great trip and a memorable experience, thanks all for the great time.