Photo TR: Hefei Parks (July 10, 2013)

[The Angry Darren Mullins]

I visited two parks in Hefei in Anhui province this morning during a long layover in my travels. I went to Xiaoyaojin Park and then to Xinghua Park. I found these parks last year, but didn't get to visit them until now. I knew each park had a spinning mouse coaster. The mouse coaster at Xinghua is a taller and longer version of the one at Xiaoyaojin. I also found aditional goodies as well.

 

The first park was Xiaoyaojin. This is Hefei's most popular park and has several rides. Many of the taller rides were hard to photograph due to the trees blocking the view, but Xiaoyaoin Park is a beautiful park. Xiaoyaojin has a spinning mouse coaster and about a dozen more rides.

 

The second park was the nearby Xinghua Park. This park is not as popular as Xiaoyaojin and it doesn't have as many trees. Some of the rides were in bad shape. There is a log flume ride that is closed off and will likely be removed. There is a powered kiddie coaster that was missing its train. There was a wave shuttle. This is the best Wave Shuttle I have ridden. I was getting nice little pops of airtime on it. I also rode the spinning coaster.

 

Both parks are very close to each other. I had a great time. There is a loopscrew in Hefei as well at another park, but I will have to get that one on a future visit here in a few weeks as I didn't have time to visit today.

I start my day at Xiaoyaojin Park.

The park is already busy and it just opened for the day.

A beautiful lake is located in the park.

The carousel looked great here.

The spinning coaster is my reason to visit this park.

Here is one more shot of the spinning coaster at Xiaoyaojin Park before I leave.

I have gone down the road a bit to find Xinghua Park.

Chinese parks sure love to have lakes.

This is the largest Ferris wheel in Hefei.

The carousel at Xinghua Park is very basic.

The dark ride has a cool building. This is a ride through.

The flume ride here has already closed.

The powered kiddie coaster was missing its train.

A rare wave shuttle coaster is here. I only know of these to exist in China. Although they all look the same, this one gives more airtime than the others.

Here is Xinghua Park's Spinning Coaster to finish out the TR.

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