The Eastern Discovery Tour
Day 4

This is the amusement park section of Yanqi Lake. It contains mostly standard rides from the range of amusement rides available in China, such as this inverting pirate ship.

Another ride was this dolphin themed tilt a whirl.

A few more rides in the amusement park area.

This was a pretty tame ride. It spins around, with the pods swinging in and out, but it doesn't create that much force.

The park also has a pirate ship. I like how it's themed with both Vikings and Pirates. I would have complained about how they've just lumped all Western cultures in to one group, but this park doesn't have a glass house anywhere.

The Twin Dragon was quite a good ride. Unlike the Western pirate ships I've done the wheel disengages from the ship when it reaches it's maximum swing. This means instead of a sharp force from where your forced up you get a much more floaty sensation, where you experience a weightless feeling for a couple of seconds at the top of the swings.

This is another of the games where you shoot people with soft rubber balls.

The hi-light of the amusement park was this ride called Force Against a Swift Current. It looks like a simple one drop flume ride at first, but I would class it as a water chute roller coaster. This is not the best photo to see this (there's a better one later in the report) but there's a big difference in height between the start and end of the corner. This means your going around it at a fast speed, rather than just drifting around it. Also at this point your not floating on the water, or on rollers, your coasting around the corner on the wheels of the car. This means I count this as a water chute coaster.

I hope that pipe is for pumping water in to the sewer, rather than from it.

Inside the area of Force Against a Swift Current is the Rumping Cars mentioned on the park map, or Dodgems if you prefer.