Monday, July 03, 2006
A Day at Damsen Park, HCMC

At about 1230 pm on Sunday, when Piggy & I were still sleeping (cuz we slept at 5 am the previous night), Piggy's colleague called us and asked if we wanna go to a theme park. So although we were still feeling sleepy, we readily agreed and hastily dressed up in half an hours' time before they came to pick us up!

Damsen Park is a nice place, probably one of the nicer places in HCMC, and it was every bit like a theme park, with a big beautiful lake and lots of greenery. There were all kinds of rides, from little kiddy rides to highly adventurous rides, like the roller coaster. Although the place looked a tad old, we felt closer to civilisation when we go to places like this. At least, it felt like we were at least living a "life" here.

Some of the rides we took and the places we visited included the following:

"Bumper Car"
While we were queuing, there are many little kids trying to cut queue. Although they were kids, but we were irritated cuz in Vietnam, queue-cutting is so common that even at the airport, when there is a visibly long line of people queuing to have their baggages checked, there are adults cutting your queue like nobody's business and you wonder why they have not been brought up to know the basic courtesy of following a queue.

"Wet" Ride
This somewhat reminded me of Jurassic Park in Universal Studio.

The Ice Musuem
We had to dorn thick coats inside, cuz the place was freezing cold. After barely 15 minute, Piggy's ears couldn't take the cold so we proceeded out first.


The Roller Coaster
Only Piggy and 2 of his male colleagues went for the ride. The rest of us were scaredy cats!
Fountain Garden

Somewhat reminded me of "Sentosa" but of course different lah...Lots of couples taking wedding pics here...

Ferris Wheel
One of the more relaxing rides...


Water "Cycle"

Kimmie scribbles
4:33 pm |

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