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Friday, July 3, 2009

Dreamland Aqua Park - Umm Al Qwain, UAE

 

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Going to Dreamland Aqua Park from Abu Dhabi, meant that we have to go through FIVE emirates to get there.

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Bleary eyed and well pass our limits of tolerance with the extreme dessert heat and seemingly unending road trip, Dreamland appeased us and proved to be just as its name claims - a land of dreams. Celebrated as one of the largest water parks in the region, it is set on amazing 250,000 sq m of land of over 30 thrilling rides, crazy slides, go-karts and a lot of other wet rides and dry attractions. It is big enough to entertain 7,000 visitors per day, and the best part is, because of its unique (read: quite isolated) location, the visitors here are certainly only those who can afford the long travel.

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Its gigantic wave pool which is the largest in the region, with 1,250,000 litres of water all stirred into huge waves at ten minutes interval. Even the most competent of swimmers were not allowed to not divest a life jacket in the huge wave pool, a simulation of some of the toughest waves that once only nature can stir. More to that, there's also a 40 meter-long, completely pitch black tunnel slide, a refresher from the blinding sunlight outside which greets you almost obscenely at the end of the slide, with a splash! There’s also wild rafting river rides, gigantic body slides, a quite dangerous twister; Hippos Island, Twisting Dragons or Kamikaze. Some of the water attractions have temperature controlled waters.  For those who doesn't want to get wet but still enjoy, Dreamland has dry attractions like sporting sports, Cyber Zone and mini zoo, and of course, its souvenir and convenience shops.

 

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Whew, enough with the wild talk. Tickets are around 100 Dhs each for adults, but they currently have a Free 2 Go Wild promotion, from 19th June till 19th August 2009. Visitors get a 50% off the entry fee when they arrive at Dreamland for the second time and for the third time the entry is absolutely free.

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