Some would say that it is a bit ridiculous to go to a theme park while touring a place like Southeast Asia. I mean, come on. These things are found everywhere across the US. But we took the experience less as a day of riding rides and playing games in a western-like amusement park, and instead just soaked in the differences of the place and how the natives rode the rides and played the games. Differences such as how the rides were actually called "games." So no one there rode any rides. They actually played the roller coaster game and played the pirate ship game. And when it came to the actual games, there were absolutely no noisy barkers calling on people to pop balloons with darts or to throw hoops. Instead, overstuffed animal toys were won by playing first-person shooter video games and underwater video slot machines--all of which were ten times louder than any barker I've ever heard. I went on ONE water park ride there. After I retrieved my heart from my lower intestine, I staggered back to find Nikki on the pristine white sand beach that lined the entire park and washed off the fear in the ocean.
One of the coolest things about this place was that it was on an island just off the coast and, you travelled there on a gondola that crossed the waters of the South China Sea.
The aquarium also deserves note. It was so cool walking through a glass tunnel with sharks and sea turtles swimming around and above you.
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