Water Park promises fun

You might have had to returns frustrated umpteen times after going around the city looking for a safe place where children can enjoy water-sports.

Such a park is indeed coming up in Ahmedabad just behind the Balvatika amusement park near Kankaria Lake. The new project will be an extension of Balvatika, and is to be completed in two years.

Approved by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, the Rs 5 crore project is being handled by the city-based Superstar Amusement Private Limited (SAPL). "The entire project is a combination of various water sports for children that are already in use abroad," SAPL managing director Ghanshyambhai Kanjibhai Patel told.

The novelty of the park, according to him, lies in the fact that though it is meant for the children up to 15 years age, the package includes facilities of sauna bath, steam bath and indoor games for adults also. He said, we are also constructing a restaurant, besides creating parking facilities within the Park itself. The food in restaurant would be served by a conveyer train, which will move inside it, at snails pace. An umbrella will top each of the tables, and water would gently pour down from the edges.

The park would be having two water pools. The first will have knee-deep water. It would be connected to a main tower by zig-zag slides. Some of these would be kept open while others would be long winding spacious pipes of transparent plastic. "Children will find the entire show very interesting particularly sliding through open and closed slides and landing into the pool, while another pool would be having relatively more with different types of fish moving inside it. The exclusivity of this pool would be a submarine fitted with magnifying glass floating on it. Accordingly such an arrangement has been planned so that children could enjoy the experience of getting into deep water in a submarine while watching a variety of fish with big shapes and sizes through glass.

A model of the Eiffel Tower will top the tower, from which the slides will originate. Another attraction at the park would be a Banyan tree at a corner of the park, which will shower water as soon as it is touched. The tree will also have its branches entwined with rubber pipe in which water will flow.

Each component of the project is being fabricated in Mr Patel's factory. Interestingly, not a single engineer has been roped in by the company, even for the implementation of the project. Patel, who says he is not an engineer, is supervising the whole project.

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