Photo TR: Baiyun Lake Amusement Park (March 22, 2015)

[The Angry Darren Mullins]

I got up this morning and went to Baiyun Lake Amusement Park in Guangzhou. This park opened two years ago and is a major park even by coaster/park enthusiasts standards. I was really surprised by how many rides it has. There is a large looping coaster called Roller Coaster that is like four others that I have ridden in China. Some of them have been rough, but this one was surprisingly smooth. Maybe the company that designed it has improved the later installations of this design. A jungle mouse coaster is here and it is just like so many others that I have ridden in China. A small powered coaster can also be found at this park. It is like so many others I have ridden as well. There is a large Ferris wheel and a Frisbee type ride here. The park's log flume had not opened from its winter slumber yet, but it has three lift hills. I have not seen another flume like this one in China. In all this park has about 35 rides and one could easily spend half a day in the amusement area if it was not for one thing-no POP is available. The rides are all pay per ride and Roller Coaster costs USD $5.80 per ride. The mouse coaster costs about $3.25 per ride. If you go to the park and ride 5 or 6 rides, you will have spent what could have gotten you a POP at a lot of parks.

 

The Baiyun distric has had a checkered past with its parks. Oriental Park opened near Baiyun mountain and has since closed. Nanhu Amusement Park in Baiyun looks like it should have closed 10 years ago and is in the process of removing its Arrow looper and only has a kiddie coaster. With the addition of rides at Baiyun Lake, the area now has a major coaster again. I hope the locals will keep it that way. My track record is now at 909 coasters, including 99 wooden coasters.

I have arrived at Baiyun Lake.

The rides must be over in this direction.

This is the first ride that greets you as you arrive at the rides area of Baiyun Lake.

No park is complete without one of these.

A look down the midway shows two coasters.

There are other rides besides coasters at Baiyun Lake.

This is probably the longest flume ride that I have seen in Asia. Too bad it was closed for the winter. It will open in another month or so.

A small powered coaster is here.

Here is the station for the powered coaster. I see so many of these here.

This was shortly before my ride on the coaster.

I have seen so many of these in China, including three others in the past two weeks.

I see so many of them for sure.

I wonder how many of them actually exist.

This mouse coaster is at Baiyun Lake, but I could have easily used a photo of another mouse coaster from one of my reports and nobody would have known the difference.

Look familiar?

A large looping coaster called Roller Coaster is here.

it is very tall.

Here is one view of the coaster.

This ride is Chinese made, but looks like TOGO tried to rip off Arrow's loopscrew design and leave out a corkscrew.

This was the first run of the day. It was a test run.

This is the biggest drop on Roller Coaster.

Through the loop during the test run and that will finish off the TR.