There’s the old-fashioned way for kids to have fun, which is none other than on the playground. I remember I used to beg my parents to let me play in playgrounds when I was young. I couldn’t get enough of the slide and especially the see-saw! I was always asking my brother to play see-saw with me, until he got tired of it! Nowadays, the kids are so high-tech already. They don’t even want to play on stationary slides anymore. They prefer to hop on rides that go in circles.

Playground

The first ride that I went to was the Go Kart, simply because I have never tried it before! During all of my visits to the theme park previously, the Go Kart always, always had an amazingly long queue. It wouldn’t make much sense to spend a few hours waiting for my turn and to waste the opportunity to try out other rides, right? Hence, I always passed the chance to go-kart. Anyway, since I was there early, there were just a few persons lining up before me. Yes, this is it, I told myself gleefully.

Fun Kart in Genting

Well the experience was not bad, though I would have preferred it more if the kart could go faster. The next ride that I went for was the Matahari, also known as the Ferris Wheel. Yes I know, I told you, age is catching up on me. I guess I just needed more time for my stomach to settle down and for me to get warmed up to all the rides.

Matahari aka Ferris’ Wheel

Now that I was all warmed up, I moved on to a slightly more challenging ride, which was called a Cyclone. It’s the smallest and the first ever roller coaster ever built in the theme park. Yes, it looks really trivial and not scary from the picture, but the first droop of this ride is very sharp! I almost felt my heart popping out when it slid down at the first ever fall. Almost 90 degrees, mind you! And it’s more scary than the Corkscrew, which I’m going to show you next.

This is Corkscrew, which is named so because of the corkscrew-like structure visibly shown. If you look at this track, there’s no sharp drop from the top. In fact, the slopes are all pretty gradual and the scary part is probably the corkscrew structure, where you get turned around 360 degrees. That is why I still think this ride is less scary than the Cyclone.

After that, I walked around because my stomach was a LITTLE bit upset. Only to chance upon this river which was filled with lots and lots of carp! Really a sight to behold!

And there’s also a make-believe dinosaur land, which has artificial structures of dinosaurs scattered all over.

I also went on the boat ride that went around the dinosaur land. It was a peaceful and relaxing ride, located at the top of hills. Hence, it was very quiet and far away from the many screams coming from down below.

There was another ride that caught my attention! The classic cup ride has now been modified into Ribena cups! So cute, aren’t they? I have never sit in a cup ride before, simply because I thought it was really silly to just spin around and make yourself dizzy. But this time, the cups were just too adorable to miss out! So I hopped on and boy did I regret it when my head started spinning as well! *LOL*

Now, let me present to you the ride that I have not yet conquered so far! The SpaceShot of Genting Theme Park. I never managed to summon enough courage to try this ride, simply because the screams of those people in it would just scare me off! Sigh… I saw an old lady trying it out before, and I felt ashamed of myself.

There was one more ride that I went on, but I didn’t manage to take the picture because I was feeling too dizzy. It was the Pirate Ship, whereby the huge ship just swings from left to right repeatedly. Boy, that was the killer for me! It really made my stomach all upset and I was THIS close to vomiting on the ship itself. Thank goodness I managed to withhold my vomit and rushed down from the ship as soon as it stopped. I didn’t even manage to look at the pictures that they captured on the screen. Well, if you must know, I did not vomit in the end, but I felt uncomfortable for the rest of the day.

Anyhow, I still love being in the happy environment of the theme park, where the only sound you can hear is sound of happy screams and laughter! One can really cheer up being around happy people, don’t you think?