Day 3 - 27th Jun

We had an AWESOME yesterday!

Went to the Gold Reef City Theme Park and Casino, followed by the match b/w Argentina-Mexico! Had to shift the Apartheid Museum visit til 2nd Jul.

The theme park entrance

I was worried it might open its feathers suddenly and sweep me away!

An interesting visit to a underground mine. We were brought down to a depth of 225m and toured the place for 45 min. We had to follow the guide closely as we had no torchlights. There is definitely no room for the claustrophoics and nyctophobics!

The Golden Loop
This ride which was given a fear factor of 8 brought us forward and backward onto the loop and up the almost-vertical track. A little apprenhensive at first but eventually, we found the ride not that scary lah.

The Anaconda
Fear factor 9 ride. Pretty ok too. The many twists and turns it has, little wonder it is called the anaconda.

Fear factor 9 too. We didnt try this ride as it was nearly 5pm and it had a queue. The park closes at 5pm and we wanted to pop over to the casino pub to watch soccer already. This ride would bring people up and drop them vertically... face-down. Looks like a must try. :(

Miners' Revenge

This was the ride I didn't go up as I was feeling somewhat giddy and nauseous from the previous rides, and this would seem to aggravate my condition, so garung Chue went up alone.

It turned out to be the 'nightmare' of the day for those people! The machine malfunctioned! It twisted and turned and suddenly, it stopped. We all thought it was part of the ride and suspense it had to give, but when it didn't move after 3 min, something was surely wrong. Some kids were already yelling to the park attendants to do something about it, and according to Chue, a few were on the brink of tears. Gosh! I was sitting next to this local whose friends were up there too and he was just commenting that he had vomitted previously after this ride and thus he didn't want to go up this round. I say it's FATE and Miners' Revenge indeed!

View from outside the casino - I like how the ferris wheel looks

Casino facade

At the pub in the casino - this pic was taken on 2nd Jul where the Brazilians were up against the Oranges. The one we caught this day was when the Germans kicked the Englishmen out.

We adjourned to the shuttle bus pick-up point near Gold Reef City for the Argentina-Mexico match thereafter.

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In the room now preparing to drive 5hrs to durban.. waiting for Alex, Rubin & YY to come back from their jog in the cool weather and car collection.

ps: Supporting the germans cuz 1) they make good booze and delectable sausages and 2) they are dressed in my fav color. Im shallow, I know. Haha

- shihui in rm 25