Everland Park in Seoul

Everland, an Amusement park, about an hour South-East of Seoul, has been on our list of must-see-places-before-the-school-starts and also topped the list of we-wont-make-a-minute-if-we-go-there-in-winter list. So we decided to tackle it on a hot summer day when the temperature showed only 34 but felt like 40! We left our home around 10 on a Friday morning to Gangnam. We immediately got the bus 5002 to the Everland park, which was no doubt full and overflowing with kids, parents and grandparents setting off to the Water theme park- Caribbean Bay, situated next door to our destination.

The bus was an express shuttle which made just two more stops before it dropped us off at the parking area of the Everland park in half an hour. We had to board another shuttle which dropped us right in front of the park.

Waiting area for the buses to the Everland park 

The entrance fee to the park is 40,000 won for adults and a little less for children and teenagers.

Entrance to the Everland park, Seoul decorated with red and yellow flowers

Taj Mahal-like but in blue, building at the Global Fair in Everland Park

Blue Taj at the Everland Park

This place is quite small compared to Disney Land in California, which they have tried to emulate. The rides are not as beautiful or magical as the Disney land ones but few rides are much more scary and lasts so much longer.

Double rock spin is a crazy ride.

Everland can be visited only for the sake this mammoth of a roller coaster. This wooden "Steepest Roller coaster in the world" takes the cake as the most fun ride in the entire park. The ride was exhilarating at the first fall  and the subsequent twists and turns made me want to ride it again and again!

Advertised as the steepest roller coaster in the world, it is entirely made out of wood.

The whole ride took us under 2minutes and it was just too good for words!

Rolling X train is another interesting roller coaster with 2 complete 360deg revolutions

Thank God for the sprays of water to help cool off!

Pretty yellow instruments decorating the grounds

Beautiful abstracts which sprayed water, to cool off!

Love birds feeding at the Everland park

It was good fun feeding the different colored love birds at the park. The way they descend in groups to fight and to eat the food from the crevices of the hand is so pretty to watch!

The rides in the park are quite fun, except for the long lines in every one of them! Q pass might be the best way to go. Both the two roller coasters are just too good, not to be missed at all. Other rides are not so exciting but worth going on to a few. The rotating house was a good one. The Madagascar Live! Show was also fun to watch, even though it was in Korean. We were able to cover the entire park and also got to go in the T express one more time :)

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