Photo TR: The Parks of Ganzhou (May 23 & 24, 2015)

I traveled to the city of Ganzhou this past weekend. I arrived in the city on the evening of May 23 and began exploring. I visited three parks and one historical attraction.

 

Children's Park (May 23)

 

This park is one of China's many children's parks. The ride collection here was all replaced a year or so ago. There used to be a coaster here. The coaster's train is in storage at the park. I got a picture of the train even though darkness was about to overtake the park. This was park #440 for me to visit.

 

Baohulu Farm (May 24)

 

This park is located in the northern part of the city. It is somewhere between a full scale theme park and a traditional park. There are two coasters here. One was open. I rode Three Loop Roller Coaster (#919 for me). This was a very rough Arrow knockoff. The parks spinning mouse coaster was closed. It is being given a paint job. There was showers while I was at this park, but they still opened the rides. That is a huge bonus for this place. I love it when parks will not let a little bit of rain ruin the day. There is also an ice sculpture display here and there is an ice slide there as well. That begs the question can I count an ice slide as a coaster? It is important to remember that roller coasters evolved from ice slides, so counting it would actually have some validity.

 

Floating Bridge (May 24)

 

The city is home to a floating bridge that dates back from the Song dynasty. It is about 850 years old. I stopped here as it was on the way between the two parks I would visit on May 24.

 

5 Dragon Keija Custom Park (May 24)

 

This park is a very well kept (except for the amusement rides) park near the center of the city. I saw the nice entrance. I walked across the nice bridge and had high hopes for when I reached the rides. When I finally found the rides, I noticed that the rides have not carried anyone in a loooooonnnnnnnggggggggg time. It is really sad too as they have some neat rides including a troika knock off that I would have loved to have ridden. You can tell by the photos that these rides will never be used again.

 

In all, I have now ridden 919 roller coasters, visited 442 amusement parks and have found 270 coasters before RCDB or ACE could find them.

Upon Arriving in Ganzhou, I checked out Children's Park and discovered that it used to have a coaster. The train is still there.

On the morning of the 24th, my first stop was Baohulu Farm.

There is some nice scenery and a huge Ferris wheel here.

Once again, no park should be without one of these.

The park had this unusual looking train ride.

The flume is not working.

Here is a test spin on Top Spin.

I like the outside of this dark ride.

A Spinning Coaster from Golden Horse is here.

It was not open today.

Three Loop Roller Coaster was open for business.

It is a knock off of an Arrow ride.

Here is some corkscrew porn.

The weather got kind of misty when I took this photo.

They have an ice sculpture display at Baohulu.

What is this? It is some type of lift.

The lift is part of Baohulu's ice slide. Does it count as a credit? Roller coasters evolved from ice slides.

On the way to the next park, I stopped to walk across this approximately 850 year old bridge for a culture credit.

The last park I would visit in Ganzhou would be 5 Dragon Keija Custom Park.

Seeing the nice entrance gate and this colorful bridge really gave me high hopes for the amusement park area here.

WTF? This is the first ride I saw here.

This ride didn't look any better.

The enterprise ride was as dead as the dodo.

There is even a knock off troika ride here, but it is no use to think you will get to take a spin on it.

There is a small powered coaster here.

This is a very common design.

You can see how this coaster will never carry another rider.

It has seen better days.

The park must have had a real ass clown in charge of ride upkeep.