Foy's Lake and Sea World

Well it's Sunday morning here and that means in 4 days I'll be home, not counting today of course. So I woke up to a thunder storm which was a little bit weird because it was only the second time I've seen rain this trip. Once in Nepal and now once in Bangladesh. It's surprising how much it cools down during the rain and thunder, probably 7 or 8 degrees and the humidity is almost completely gone. Although right after the rain the humidity comes back with a vengeance and it's like it never left.

Foy's Lake Amusement Park. Imagine your at a great water park in a wave pool and they are playing your favorite song as loud as the speakers will allow and everybody is singing along. That is something I'd love to experience however I don't understand Bangladesh pop music and the wave pool water was green. So in a nutshell Foy's Lake was a big let down although watching a lot of locals dance to the music was entertaining and almost worth the price of admission. So there was only about 100 people in the whole water park, I was there at about 12pm so I just figured it's still pretty early but by 4 pm there wasn't anymore people. This was a bit strange considering when I talk to locals they tell me I need to go there because it's very nice. The lake is itself is nice, it's surrounded by semi big hills which is pretty neat because it's basically in the middle of a city with 4 million people. To get to the water park you actually take a boat down the lake and you can see the trail of gas and oil behind the boat. The rides at the amusement park were sketchy and each of them cost around 50 taka to go on. I brought an unlimited ticket which got me entry to the lake and the water park and unlimited rides. It was only 350 taka which isn't that expensive even by Bangladesh standards. Although about 20 minutes I realized the ticket guy didn't give me change when I gave him a 500 taka bill(that's the largest they have) I didn't go on any rides in Foy's Lake(it's separate from the water park which by the way is called sea world) because they looked sketchy and there was no one else on them-this is probably because the unlimited ticket didn't include rides on these rides. This sucked because I kinda wanted to go on the Ferris Wheel which is the one ride that looked okay. So the water park was funny, they had about 7 water slides and only 3 of them were working. Because of the lack of people I actually had to wake the slide operator guy up so he could turn the water on. They turn the water off when no one is up at the top of the slide. So all in all it was an okay time because the slides that did work were fairly fun but it really made me miss a Northern American amusement park(especially wet n wild in Vineland when it was around) I did manage to get a sun burn on my feet, the bottom of them because the walking paths were so hot from the sun, I also have a good sunburn on my back. I decided to show of my rocking body to the locals(who go to the waterpark in the same clothes they were on the street) Sharees and all. I didn't know if I could actually take my shirt off because sometimes that will be frowned upon in public, but I saw some other guys doing it so I figured it was okay.

After I left the water park I haggled with the ticket guy about not giving me the change and it worked. It wasn't even the same guy but he gave in eventually, his English was good enough that he understood(after I explained it 10 times) Not giving change seems to be a common theme when buying something over here, so I have to tell them what bill I'm giving them and how much change I should get. So after I wrote the last blog I went for supper-had chicken again because it's either that or fish and I don't eat fish(fish over here might be a bit iffy because of the pollution in the water) After the water park I went to KFC, it was great actually, I had the equal of the spicy chicken sand which-they call it a zinger. The chicken tasted the same as back home except there wasn't any grease which was nice. KFC is very popular here and there's about 6 of them in Bangladesh. After that I just chilled out back at the hotel.

So I've only got a couple more days before I start the journey back home, I was going to go to Cox's Bazaar which is all beach resort on the bay of Bengal. Although I felted that I didn't want to go just for 2 days because it's a 4 or 5 hours bus ride south from Chittagong. This would me a 12 hour bus ride back to Dhaka and that's not something I wanted to experience. So the plan now is to catch a train Monday morning to Dhaka and just wait until Wednesday morning when I fly to India. There's one more site to see in Dhaka that I didn't go to before so I do that on Tuesday and that'll probably be the last thing I do before the journey home. I'm counting the days until I get home, I've been doing that for about a week now.

Well thanks for reading and enjoy your Sunday, not sure when the next blog will be, probably on Tuesday. Hopefully I'll be able to put up pictures then.

Go Habs
Andrew