To celebrate Brad's birthday a number of us headed to Everland. It is about 40mins away but by magically weaving through the streets of outer Seoul the bus driver managed to take a good 90mins off my life. I'm not getting that back. The resort itself is huge. There are 3 main parts with a zoo, a theme park and the water park. Not interested in either depressed tigers or overcrowded lines for rollercoasters we had our hearts set on the water park. Carribean Bay has both indoor and outdorr attractions althoug by far the most interesting is outside. We tried the standing wave machine, numerous tube waterslides, the wave pool and three speed slides. The speed slides were the best. One started in a darkened tube where you slid slowly until the slide droped away at a sharp angle allowing you to leave the slide momentarily before plumetting down the sharp incline. The wave pool was highly amusing. Lifeguards patrolled two areas in the pool. One, where you had to wear a life jacket if you went deeper than 1.6 metres and a zone of 2 metres wide stretching the entire pool where the 2 metre high wave broke. We were asked numerous times whether we were swimmers as we body surfed the waves as being able to swim is a foreign concept to adults who float in a pool in life jackets screaming at the sight of a wave.

 

Oh I didnt mention that through this entire experience you wrent allowed on a ride or in the water without a swimming cap on.......

 

God help any Koreans who actually go to a normal beach. Couple of pics below.