Photo TR: Zhongshan Park and Beihai Garden Expo (1/2/2016)

January 2, 2016:

I had a long holiday weekend, so I decided to bring in the new year with an outing to the city of Beihai in Guangxi, China. I will say that first, I looked for the "roller coaster apartments" I mentioned on this board last week. I did not see them. I wonder if they are still being built. I did go to a couple of parks and discovered a couple of new coasters that ACE or RCDB did not know about. In fact, I have now discovered 310 coasters before ACE or RCDB.

Zhongshan Park: This park is in the northern part of Beihai. There are two coasters here. One is a spinning coaster with an oval layout. It has not carried anyone in a long time. The other coaster is a kiddie coaster. I rode the kiddie coaster and I also checked out the dark ride here. The dark ride is mostly cheesy and some of the displays are poorly lit, but two things make this ride a bit different. One thing is that passengers ride on small boats. The other thing about this ride is the use of people dressed as ghosts to reach out and grab you as are enjoying the ride. It is fun for what it is. It is my favorite dark ride in China.

Silver Beach: I went to this place next. It is the #1 beach in China and actually is very nice. The water here is very calm and free of sharks. There are clean restroom facilities, boat rides on the ocean, seafood restaurants and even bumper cars.

Beihai Garden Expo: After silver Beach, I went to Beihai Garden Expo. This place opened in 2015. in a few years, the plants and trees will be very nice to look at, but right now, they are still growing. There are two coasters here. One is mouse and the other has a loop and a single corkscrew.

I finished this trip having now visited 478 parks and ridden 968 roller coasters.

It is 8am and I am at Zhongshan Park in Beihai.

This is China's coolest dark ride.

Instead of walking through it or riding in a car, passengers ride in boats.

This is one of the coasters at Beihai's Zhongshan Park. It doesn't work anymore.

Here is Zhongshan Park's other coaster. This one is still in operation.

I have been on several of these.

The flume at Zhongshan Park would open later in the day.

My next stop as at China's #1 beach.

The water here is very calm and free of sharks.

Beihai Garden Expo was my next stop. It just opened in 2015.

There is a small amusement park inside.

There is a large Ferris wheel here.

This looks familiar.

Every park in China has one of these it seems.

A much bigger coaster is here too.

Larger coasters are becoming more common as Chinese people are starting to have more money.

Here is one more photo to finish the TR.