Water park promises fun

AHMEDABAD, Oct 19: You might have had to return frustrated umpteen times after going around the city looking for a safe place where child...

AHMEDABAD, Oct 19: You might have had to return frustrated umpteen times after going around the city looking for a safe place where children can enjoy watersports.

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 Balwatika, 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 Express Newsline.

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The novelty of the park, according to him, lies in the fact that though it is meant for the children upto 15 years age, the package includes facilities of sauna bath, steambath and indoor games for adults also. “We are also constructing a restaurant, besides creating parking facilities within the park itself,” Patel said.

He said food in restaurant would be served by a conveyer train, which will move inside it at snails pace. Each of the tables will be topped by an umbrella, 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 made of transparent plastic. “Children will find the entire show very interesting particularly sliding through open and closed slides and landing into the pool,” Patel said.

Another pool would be having relatively more water with different types of fish moving inside it. The exclusivity of this pool would be a submarine fited with magnifying glass floating on it. According to Patel, such an arrangememnt 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.

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The tower, from which the slides orginate, will be topped by a model of the Eiffel Tower. 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.“We will have the tree and its branches entwined with rubber pipe in which water will flow,” Patel disclosed.

He said each component of the project is being fabricated in his factory. “Not a single component is being imported,” he said.

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.