Day Nineteen - Twenty
We've been traveling by train for the past two days from Xi'an to Beijing with a stopover in Shijiazhuang.
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Originally we wanted to visit a temple in the mountains near Shijiazhuang, but what sounds like a good idea in your living room is not always something you want to do after almost 3 weeks of travel.
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It would have taken us three hours of travel by bus each way and another hour to climb the mountain to basically take a single photo and we decided this wasn't worth it. Instead we changed our train tickes from 20:00 in the evening to 10:00 in the morning so we could spend more time in Beijing.
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Our hotel in Beijing is right next to a amusement park. Their motto is "Disney is too far to go, please come to Shijingshan!", so we took some time to check it out.
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At first glance the park looks nice. It's only 10 Yuan to enter (~ 1.20 euro) and you pay for each ride.
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There were almost no visitors, weird on a Sunday afternoon.
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After a closer look, you can clearly see that the park's best days are in the past.
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Many rides were closed or even missing.
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Out of the 3 rides called "Wild Mouse" exactly 0 were operating.
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One of the better themed water rides was in the process of beeing torn down.
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It felt weird walking through the park parts of it looked fine and there were plenty of rides still operating, though most were variants of spinning rides you see at carnivals.
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There was even a brand-new ferris wheel
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Eventually we took the gamble and purchased a couple of tickets for the only still operating roller coaster...
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... and we survived!