Travel With Rithu

Have you been to a water-park in Honk Kong before? Well I went to one, my first ever! It is Water World by Ocean Park. At first I didn’t know that we were going there, because my parents had secretly packed our swimming gear in my dad’s bag while I was sleeping. When we started from our hotel, I thought that we were going somewhere for sightseeing as usual. Even when we got out from the metro, in the wildest of my thoughts, I knew that we were going in the park because the only thing ouside was the park. Plus, when we were walking past the sign my mom said, “Is’nt it here?” So when we were in the escalator to go down, my parents revealed the surprise, but I couldn’t believe it. Finally after my dad gave me a bunch of reasons, I believed him. After that I was so surprised and I hugged him like anything! It was because I had never been to a water park and this was my first time! To reach the water park, we took a bus. When we reached, I saw many slides around me. I can already feel an extra surge of excitement coming through my body. As soon as we finished changed to our swimming suits, I ran to the entrance and found a small waterfall. The only way is to enter is to pass through it.

When we entered the water park, all I could see was lots of slides around. Each of the rides had a funny name.

 First, I decided to go to the “Lazy Cruise.” All I had to do was sit on a circular balloon loop called water tube and float away to the end. On the way, there were many tiny waterfalls that made my mom and me drenched by the time we reached the end of the pool. 

Afterwards, I decided to try out the “Surf Striker,” which made me feel terrified indeed. When I got to the front, a guide taught me how to handle the harsh current of the water on the surfboard. When I was doing it, I found it to be very hard, and suddenly, I lost my grip and got thrown off from the water! There was a timer for 1 minute and by that time, it went off. 

Next, my mom and I went to a ride called “Cavern Chase.” When we reached, we found ourselves in a huge queue. But after some time, we reached the front of the queue, and they made us sit on a 4-seater round raft. As it was just the 2 of us, they made us sit opposite each other. The next thing I knew, we were in a dark tunnel, and my mom was screaming her head off until we landed in a pool after a minute or two!

After that ride, we went to the Big Wave Bay. It was basically a giant pool with a lot of waves,  which meant that it was hard to put the water tube on. Once I finally got inside with my dad’s help, I felt like I was being swept by the waves! After some relaxing, I jumped out of the tube and rushed to the shore, and got my mom to get up to go to the next ride: Rainbow Rush. 

When it was finally our turn at the Rainbow Rush, we saw 8 tunnels, with these different colors: red, orange , yellow, green, blue, indigo, pink, and purple. I chose the pink one and my mom chose the purple one. As soon as I heard a buzzer, I jumped into the tunnel on a mat which was given to everyone. There was so many twists and finally I reached the sunlight, so I thought I reached the end but before I could even move, I was falling on a free drop! When I reached the actual end, I did not move for a few seconds in case there was another free fall. My mom was calling me which didn’t sound very far. Then when I got up, I told my mom that I wanted to go again because this was the best ride that I have been to so far! This time my mom let me go alone and I chose the purple one this time.

The next ride was called the Cyclone Spin. When we reached the top of the slide after waiting in a long queue, we settled down on a raft that had 2 seats. The ride was almost like the Cavern Chase, but it wasn’t that scary because my mom didn’t scream at all!

My dad said he wanted to go to a ride called Riptide, and judging from it’s name I thought it was a scary ride so I agreed, but when we reached, it was just a small pool and my dad said the next place I go to is going to be my last ride of the day, so I said I will go to another nice ride if it is my last ride. So my mom and I sat outside and waited for my dad to finish off with the Riptide. When he was done, we headed inside, hoping that there was an indoor ride that I could have missed, as it was very hot outside. Unfortunately, there was none, but when we saw the map, we saw one ride which made me make up my mind that I wanted to go there. The name of the ride was ‘Sky high Falls.‘ When we stood in the queue, we realized that it was a short one which was convenient. When we were settling on the circular raft, 3 more ladies were made to join us and we were surprised. But as the staff pushed the raft to the ride, we focused on the experience we were going to encounter. It was the best ride in the whole park! There were many tunnels, holes and free falls! Me and my mom were screaming our heads off! But the 3 ladies didn’t shout at all!

 By the time we were done with all the rides, we were all hungry so we went to the restaurant outside. I ordered a burger for me and my mom to share, and my dad ordered rice with chicken curry. When I was finished eating, I asked my parents if I could go for a swim in the pool which was right next to us so they said yes. I only went for a few minutes because we had to go to other places in Hong Kong too….. but that’s another story! Like that, our wonderful experience in Ocean Park Water World ended. While we were walking towards the exit, I told my mom that I really wanted to time travel back to the time when we were standing in the queue for the first ride of the day.