Beating the heat at Sunway

You know you gotta hit the beach when the heat gets to you. In Malaysia, its hardly surprising to go through a day complaining about the unbearable heat (how it become so unbearable, remains to be seen). But since we are living in PJ, it is pretty hard to go PD or Penang to take a dip. So what choice do we have? Sunway Lagoon.

Yes, the one and only theme park in the heart of the city. Nowhere else can you find a man made beach or go surfing right next to a shopping mall. Well, it all sounds good on paper, that's why Kat and her friends planned to go to Sunway Lagoon after their exams. I tagged along for the ride to participate in the fun.

Picked Kat up from the station at around 10. Met Sabrina and the others just as we were walking away from my car. Gave us a fright. The entrance to the lagoon was oddly located at the corner of level 3. The construction of Pyramid 2 has cost the Lagoon its main entrance. Not only is it less accessible now, but the place is kinda struggling keeping visitors interested.

A look at the Wet Park from above

Buying tickets is never easy when you go with a group of accountants

Sunway is very particular when visitors bring their own bottles into the park. Apparently, you MUST buy the park's filtered water.

After proceeding to buy the tickets, we made our way downstairs to the locker room area. It was a real challenge fitting 5 bags into one locker. Infact, this was tougher than fitting 21 people into a mini.

Stuffing bags in is never fun

Our first ride was the "teacup" ride. Spinning around till we can spin no more. Kat wasn't feeling too good after I spun it for abit. Gotta cut down on them spins.

Evidently, you should close your eyes as you spin. You'll feel less dizy afterwards

Caught this tiger roaming around a caged area. He looked pretty bored. But not as bored as....

The second lion, who looked kinda dead. Not sure if he was breathing, but the first one didn't mind sniffing it to check if it still had a pulse.

Our next ride was the Lost City of Gold, been on this one before. Long ago when it first opened. Was kinda scary at that time. Wasn't so much this time around, though the sudden drop and constant dipping still made it scary during the first half of the ride.

We decided to get on the tamer roller coasters, the Buffalo Bill Coaster. Less scary by far and not so exciting as it was when I was younger.



As you can see most of us weren't scared by the ride at all. Even had time to pose for the camera.


Ai Ling and Kimberly kindly demonstrated how to go down a slope at maximum speed using an inflatable boat.

The drop

Kat posing right after we came down the slide

This was something that scares even the hell outta me. Going up a slippery cannoe with very little grip and come sliding backdown after reaching the peak. Plus you get very wet at the end of the ride.

Some of our fellow comrades are about to understand the meaning of getting wet

Later we had lunch at the Wet Park area. The food was terrible and it was over charged. Rm 5.80 for a cheap Ramlee burger styled chicken burger. Disgraceful considering that Western theme parks DO have decent food.

All of us tucking in at the habour bay. Food sucked.

The view was nice though

All of us decided to head over to the Wave pool to get ourselves wet. Nice waterfall in the background.

A big part of the day was left unphotographed because we rented floats. We were all soaking wet after having "swam" around in circles around the river outlining the Wetpark.

Two very wet peopl at the park

Had to wait for the girls to finish changing before we finally decided to go back. Took the opportunity to take pictures around the place.

Sadly, it was time to go and we did have loads of fun. Like many theme parks, you just gotta go through a souvenier shop after everything you've been through.

The pig shaped straw was a hit among the girls.

Evening view of Monash in the horizon.

Walking back into Pyramid.

Having a well deserved rest at Mac Ds after a whole day out at the Lagoon.