The second park was back into Beijing for Beijing World Park. This one was in the SW of the city and is primarily a miniatures theme park with a small selection of rides in one corner including a mine train ride and a mouse coaster.
They also have the Urine Boy statue!
Upon exiting our taxi we were swarmed with scalpers trying to take photos of us to sell. We managed to make our way past them and into the park proper. A firm "no" usually did the trick.
The poor elephant was chained to the ground and could only move one step forward and back. Later on in the day we saw it water fighting with a bunch of kids. I wonder if he takes his frustration out on them?
We found the mouse coaster first and it was overgrown so add that to the SBNO list too, only here it stands for Standing But Now Overgrown.
The mine train was a 20yuen upcharge and we were assaulted by the camera people again this time once we were restrained, albeit very loosely in the ride. The ride itself was weird, stuff was too close to the car for comfort (an entire mountain wall, an axe blade) and the ride was a large figure eight with some hills and a weird banked straight section. When we made it back to the park we were presented with keyrings of our photos. Man that was fast! We declined their offer and left the area.
The rest of the park is quite nice with a mixture of good and bad reconstructions of famous buildings from around the world. The Manhattan skyline was pre 9/11 which was a little surprising.
Golden Gate Bridge?
As we exited the park we were again "attacked" with more key rings of our faces, which we declined. I wonder where they end up?
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