Photo TR: Chaozhou West Lake and Phoenix Island Park

[The Angry Darren Mullins]

June 13, 2015:

 

I visited the city of Chaozhou. I went to two parks there (parks # 444 and # 445).

 

West Lake Park: This park is not on RCDB yet, but it soon will be. There is a small amusement park here and a mouse coaster was just added very recently. Sadly, the mouse was down due to being struck by lightning the day before my visit. God only knows how long it will be down. There is also a small powered coaster with a different layout from what I have seen before. The powered coaster serves as the centerpiece of the rides area. There are a few other rides here as well.

 

Fenghuangzhou Park: I found this park a few years ago and alerted Duane at RCDB. The park had a mouse coaster and a powered coaster at the time of me finding it on Google maps. The mouse was removed shortly thereafter. This park's name in English is Phoenix Island Park. There is a small collection of basic rides here. I rode the powered coaster ($1.60 USD for four circuits). I walked around and took pictures and was about to leave when six children went over to the powered coaster to ride it. The ride op was in the ticket booth a couple of hundred feet away and couldn't hear the children screaming for him. I alerted him that they wanted to ride. I got an addition four spins on the powered coaster since as the result of my efforts.

I am in the city of Chaozhou today. My first stop is West Lake Park.

I love to see things like this in Chinese parks.

There are rides at West Lake Park.

A nice little flume is here.

The Golden Dragon Roller Coaster is in the center of the rides area.

I love the design of the lead car.

This seemed to be the most popular ride at West Lake.

It is actually a very fast ride.

A mouse coaster is here.

It looks like a brand new ride.

Too bad a lightning strike one day before fried the coaster's operating system.

My next park of the day was Fenghuangzhou Park. It is called Phoenix Island in English.

As soon as I walked into the park, guests were enjoying the pirate ship.

I have to get the carousel shot in.

The moon cars are being overtaken by weeds.

There is a powered coaster called Golden Dragon Roller Coaster here. Six Flags and Cedar Fair must co-own a lot of Chinese parks due to the names being recycled at nearly every park.

The train even looks like a golden dragon.

It has a long train. Long is the Chinese word for Dragon.

This is pretty common in China.

I will finish the TR with an onride shot.