The good part about trying out new things is that your curiosity for experimenting increases with every new day and new trip. For past few months, my only trips have been to jungle and only jungle so this time I decided to have a complete rest on the weekend at home. But, when you have friends like me, it is really difficult to be kept inside the home. One of my friend invited me to be a part of a group event which was suppose to happen in Greater Noida. The place where the event was suppose to take place was called "Mall of Adventure". I was really not aware of this place as never heard of it but wanted to give a try as the name sounded interesting.
Since I live in Jasola Vihar, travelling to Greater Noida was not a big deal. On saturday morning, me along with my partners in crime, my wife and my son, left for the place. We reached there around 11 AM. reaching there was a bit of challenge, not because of road but since there were very limited signage on the road to guide. The place is just 500 metres from NIIT building, opposite Gautam Buddha University. At the very first instance the look of the place and the overall setup started giving goosebumps as I never expected this type of setup in NCR. I could see a High level rope course, which can match any international setup. The zipline was around 300 ft in height and 750 mts in length.
I went to the ticketing counter wherein we were greeted by smiling faces of the courteous staff. Since it was an invite event, we did not have to go through ticketing hurdle but what I came to know later was there are 3 packages available from 1500 to 2500 depending on the level of adventure you want to try.
There were around 50 guests who were invited and they were divided in 4 groups of 12-13 each. We were told to keep a name of each group. We decided to keep Thunder Brats as our group's name. The first activity which we were taken was paintball gun shoot in which we had to fight with the other group called "The Fireguns". The setup was excellent and we were given proper uniforms to play that game. We were given paintball guns and war like set up was created in which we both had to outdo the other. The fight continued for around 30 minutes but my team lost the battle. "The fireguns" won the battle but we challenged them for further games. After the loss, our group was charged up now for the future battles. When we came out, the other groups had a similar battle experience. Watching them only was great fun.
After 10 mins break we were taken to rock climbing arena. Oh my god, I have never seen such a beautiful rock climbing wall in my life. With 100% international safety standards, one by one we were given the chance to try it. One of the team member in our group called Ajay was the only one who could climb the entire wall. Rest all of us failed the half way. In this competition we came out as winner and now the scores level at 1-1.
After the rock climbing we were taken to High level rope course wherein there were around 24 activities which can be done including para jump, rappelling and slithering. This was individual event and one by one everyone did the activities. Then came the challenging part of who finishes the entire activities of high level rope course in the fastest time. Two guys from my team took around 20 minutes to complete the entire activities wherein the other group members fastest time was 25 mins. We were 2-1 ahead of our arch rivals.
It was around 2 pm and we decided to have lunch. We were taken to a shack restaurant inside the mall. It was beautiful and the entire ambiance was such as if we are sitting in a shack in Goa. The food served was very tasty and the overall experience was memorable.
After the lunch, we were given options of trying activities such as bull ride, big glove boxing, water zorbing, sumo wrestling, body zorb. My son was busy in remote control car race on the actual track.
After trying all these fun activities, we went to try for human bungee slingshot. This was one such activity which I loved the most. One has to try this to experience a fun adventure.
After the slingshot, we were taken to ATV track where the mean machines of Polaris were waiting for us. The entire track was around 2.5 kms and driving those ATV's on the track was fun. Initially it looked difficult but after 5 mins of practicing I was able to drive the entire track in 15 mins. This was another fun activity.
After this the final activity which was waiting for us for Mega zip line. Oh my God, almost all of us withdrew from this activity seeing the height from where we have to slope down on a wire. We were given assurance that this is 100% safe and instructors showed us first by doing themselves. I finally decided to go ahead with it.
Trust me, this was one of the most adventurous thing I have done in my life. It was scary to start with but once I was released from the top, it was an amazing experience. I was proud of myself that I did it.
The event got over around 6 pm and we left for home after that.