Photo TR: Three Parks in Liuzhou (Feb. 12 & 13, 2017)

[The Angry Darren Mullins]

February 12 & 13 (Liuhou Park/Queshan Park/Longtan Park in Liuzhou, Guangxi, China)

 

I visited Liuzhou city over the past two days. I grew up in southern Ohio and lived two hours from Cincinnati. Liuzhou is a "sister city" of Cincinnati. This made the trip all that more interesting for me. The #19 bus serves all three of the parks I visited. The new Visionland is not open yet. I didn't not even bother to go out to that park. All three of the parks I visited were spotless and the rides, for the most part, looked kept up. I saw no Beston Space Trips here or whatever they were called. I added that because I figured someone on her may ask if I saw any and if they were open or not.

 

Liuhou Park:

 

This park is located near the river in the city center. It is a very nice park with a small collection of rides. It features a kiddie coaster that is similar to the Golden Horse Fruit Worm coasters. It has a sea life motif. The park is very clean. The coaster here became #373 I discovered before ACE or RCDB.

 

Queshan Park:

 

This park is located in the northern part of the city. They added an entire new lineup of rides last year. There is a giant Ferris Wheel. A bog standard jungle mouse is here. There is a large double loop/corkscrew coaster that is similar to a few other coasters I have ridden, but in mirror image form. The first drop is also a bit different. The coaster was not rough, but it was intense through the transitions. Queshan Park is also very clean and nice.

 

Longtan Park:

 

This park is located in the southern part of the city. It has some very nice scenery and a few rides, including a powered coaster. There is a bridge copied after one built in Cincinnati, Ohio. It seems Longtan Park is honoring Liuzhou's sister city arrangement with Cincinnati. Longtan is also a very clean park. If I had more time, I would have spent a few hours wondering around and enjoying the view in the park.

 

In short, I visited three great parks. I was not expecting all three of the parks to be as clean as they are. Usually, each Chinese city has a park or two that is on the decline with several rusted rides. I saw none of this in Liuzhou. My coaster count is now up to 1055 (102 wood/953 steel).

My first park in Liuzhou will be Liuhou Park.

There are just bog standard rides here like this carousel.

There is a coaster here.

It is not very big.

It is like a fruit worm coaster with a dolphin motif.

It is one of 373 coasters I have found before ACE or RCDB.

I went to Queshan Park the next morning.

They added some shiny new rides last year.

Yes! It is another mouse coaster.

These are common in China.

They have a large double loop and corkscrew coaster here. This one is smooth, but intense.

It goes counter-clockwise through the corkscrew.

It looks new because it is new. It opened in 2016.

This is what it looks like from the Ferris Wheel.

My final park in Liuzhou was Longtan Park.

This park has some beautiful scenery.

There is this bridge in Longtan Park.

It is patterned after one built in Cincinnati, Ohio. The city of Liuzhou is a "sister city" of Cincinnati. I am from Ohio. I thought this was interesting.

Here is some info on the bridge.

There are a few basic rides here as well.

There is a small powered coaster here.

The Chinese love to put these in their parks.

This one is built over the water. This will end the TR.

[PKI Jizzman]

Cincinnati guy here. I do believe I remember hearing about the sister city in China during a Cincinnati history class or something. Certainly haven't thought about it in a while! Thanks for the photos.