Photo TR: Colorful Yunnan Paradise (1/24/19) Part 2

January 24, 2019: Colorful Yunnan Paradise (Kunming, Yunnan, China)

Before I talk about this park, I want to say that this TR almost never happened. I spent the last 8 days traveling through southwest China and I tried to go to this park a few days ago, only to be misled by two travel agents who just swore, by golly, that this park closed after only a short time in operation. A taxi driver also said there was nothing at this park and that it was better to have him take my wife and I several hours outside of town to a better attraction. There was also the nonsense of me being told I could ride a coaster in Dali a couple of days before and being allowed to pay for a ticket and getting all the way to the loading platform only to have the idiot who motioned for me to go up to the station decide to turn me away when he saw that I was a foreigner. All of these things almost derailed my desire to go to Colorful Yunnan Paradise.

I did make it to the park yesterday and I had a great time in what is one of the best parks I have ever visited. Perhaps the best thing about this is that Colorful Yunnan Paradise became park #600 for me to visit and the four coasters here upped my coaster count to 1186 coasters.

Here are my thoughts on the coasters:

Mine Train-This is a Golden Horse ride with a new track design. It is a big improvement over their earlier mine trains.

Wing Coaster-This is a fun B&M that borrows elements from Gatekeeper.

Tiger Leaping Gorge-This is a Mack Supersplash. It is the third one I have ridden. It is a fun ride with a reversal turntable that lets riders take a drop backwards.

Launch Coaster-This is a Mack Blue Fire clone. It is my favorite coaster here. I hope that more of these will be built.

This is an excellent park. The only downside is that it takes about three hours to get here using public transportation. I took a subway one hour to Kunming south railway station and waited nearly an hour to get on a bus that took another hour to the park. I have now visited 600 parks, ridden 1186 coasters and found 460 coasters before ACE or RCDB.

I finally made it to Colorful Yunnan Paradise...no thanks to a handful of lying locals in Kunming.

That wheel looks big!

It is really big.

Mine Train is a Golden Horse ride and uses a new track design.

I like the faucets in the restrooms.

There is even a McDonald's inside the park.

This trabant ride is nice.

Here is another ride at the park.

This is Tiger Leaping Gorge, it is named after a scenic area in China.

It is the third ride of this type that I have ridden.

This is a basic family ride. It allows riders to shoot water, but there are no specific targets.

Yes! A Blue Fire clone, this one is called Launch Coaster.

It is a lot of fun.

Here is the big loop!

Here is the lead car.

Last, but not least, is Wing Coaster.

It borrows elements of Gatekeeper.

It is the tallest coaster in the park.

It is a fun ride.

Here is the first drop on Wing Coaster.

I will close out the TR with a photo of the Carousel.

I'm happy you were able to visit a park with better offerings than a wacky work or wild mouse for your 600th park I was really worried that was going to be the case when I clicked in, haha. The park lives up to the name, the coasters are nice and vibrant.

Great report! It's definitely colorful.

China's wing coasters looks amazing. I really hope I can make it out there to ride them sometime in the near future.

I am glad that I was able to make this my 600th park. I am glad that I didn't encounter any of the stupidity that I often experience at the parks here.