So, further to the week's celebrations, we'd made plans to spend a whole day in Atlantis! After a satisfying hotel breakfast, we made our way through Palm Jumeirah and onto the Atlantis grounds. It actually is a hotel mixed up with a water theme park and other attractions. However attractive the idea is of sleeping in a room with an awesome aquarium view, the rates were too darn expensive...and given time constraints, we passed on the Dolphin Bay attraction and devoted time to the Aquaventure and the Lost Chambers.
Aquaventure is an amazing concoction of water thrills which include a playground style collection of slides; a wide river that cuts through and around the park and then evolves into white water rapids and torrents of rolling waves...and, of course, the daunting Ziggurat. Inside Ziggurat, there are these monstrous slides that twist and turn your insides, sudden dips and lurches that guarantee a quick chat with your maker. A particularly enjoyable Ziggurat ride was th
e Shark Attack, which, after a looong twisting, pitch black slide, leaves riders floating slowly inside a transparent tunnel submerged inside a shark filled (and other marine life) lagoon. On all these, surprisingly, the wife and little girl braved through it all with me. The little girl particularly kept wanting for more and more. Not that I was completely brave all the way. I chickened-out of the Leap of Faith, a 27.5ft vertical drop slide...its the one that starts off from the mouth of the Ziggurat and a majestic view of the park and the skies. By late afternoon, we decided to take it down to the private beach, white sands with a distant view of busy Dubai.
e Shark Attack, which, after a looong twisting, pitch black slide, leaves riders floating slowly inside a transparent tunnel submerged inside a shark filled (and other marine life) lagoon. On all these, surprisingly, the wife and little girl braved through it all with me. The little girl particularly kept wanting for more and more. Not that I was completely brave all the way. I chickened-out of the Leap of Faith, a 27.5ft vertical drop slide...its the one that starts off from the mouth of the Ziggurat and a majestic view of the park and the skies. By late afternoon, we decided to take it down to the private beach, white sands with a distant view of busy Dubai.
After a (not-so) quick bath, we cleaned up and readied ourselves for another chapter. The Lost Chambers was supposedly a quick 20-30min. (or so we were told) self guided tour of grandeur Atlantis. Its much like Dubai Aquarium, if only in principle, marine life foreground to a certain motif - Atlantis myths and legends. Although this one is much grander in scale compared to its peers mainly because of one reason - the Ambassador Lagoon aka the large fish tank with the whale inside. The tank is 10meters deep and holds 11.5M litres of water. Our pictures don't do justice to its grandness. Maybe the video is better...assuming we get to upload it.
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