Beijing's Disney World

I just got home from Beijing. Today (or technically since its after midnight - yesterday), I went to Shijingshan Amusement Park in Beijing with some of my closest friends. Here's Jin Yi and I on the train to Beijing. The photo was going to be made on the count of 3 and on 2 I put small pieces of paper on each side of her glasses. It caught her off guard and she didn't have time to take them out before the photo!


Here, Feng Fan, Yan Yan and I ride the Beijing subway out to the park...


The park had several different admission options. You can pay a gate entrance fee and then pay per ride (usually 10-20 RMB each) or you can buy a combination ticket. There are three different combos. We bought the most expensive one, so our total admission cost US$75 (600 RMB). That's a little gui for China, but we did get access to a lot of rides. We rode almost all of them.

Do you have faith in the people who build Chinese roller coasters? Here we go...


The park has a castle like Disney world...


See the ride above that's going round and round? Here's Jin Yi after she finished riding it.


Actually it wasn't that bad. Just ask Yan Yan & Pan Ke....


or Feng Fan.


Just like in America, theme park food is really expensive. So we brought our own! Li Lan is enjoying one of the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I made last night.


Here we are going through a maze of mirrors...


And, of course, we had to drive the bumper cars! Here Pan Ke and Jin Yi bump into each other...



Feng Fan and Jin Yi are riding a roller coaster that looks like a worm and crawls through an apple. Here we are exiting the apple...


Some of us also drove cars around the racetrack. Jin Yi, who has her drivers license, decided to teach Yan Yan how to drive. Unfortunately it didn't go so well! They got stuck in the railing on the side of the track and had to wait for the maintenance guy to free them!


Then we left the park to go meet Zhang Peilong, who had been hard at work on a Saturday while we were having fun. (See next post)