After dipping ourselves at Millennium Hot Spring for about half an hour (I believe that is my threshold for a hot spring dip, for now), feeling refreshed, it's another 1 hour drive to Hsinchu, our second last city to check in for this trip. By the time we reached the hotel, our black "rat" has accumulated mileage of at least 1170 km. It has been quite an adventure for the last 7 days and it is coming to an end (I'm talking about the driving). Well, not until our next pit stop.
Leofoo Theme Park
The major reason to check in at this part of the city is due to the theme park within its vicinity. Being a fan of theme park (especially roller coaster), I enjoy a thrilling adrenaline-rush ride. After having breakfast at our hotel (Bin Chen Hotel, 950 yuan for a double room), we arrived at our destination after 40-minute drive.
Entrance of Leofoo Theme Park
The park is accessible with a fee of 999 yuan. The park opens daily from 0900 hours until 1700 hours. We visited the theme park on a Friday in which we were expecting less crowd but as we reached, there were buses of school kids who checked in at the same time. From my past experience, I didn't usually have adequate time to cover all the rides with people swarming the place. Not this time though.
The park is divided into 4 areas: Wild West, South Pacific, Arabian Kingdom and African Safari. Some of the rides may close earlier than 1700 hours and hence it is important to plan your visit to maximise your time at the park. Upon your purchase of ticket, you shall grab a map and schedule of all rides' operating hours. Truthfully, the park is rather small and you won't be really get lost there. As you walk towards the park, you shall reach at a big roundabout with fountain in the middle and you can see the entrance of all four areas.
The first exit leads to a cowboy-ish village (Wild West). Did I tell that our intention was to try the famous ride which is known as "Screaming Condor" that is featured on Korean reality TV show, "Running Man"? However, it was closed for maintenance on that fine day. Can't help to feel disappointed since that supposed to be the highlight of the park. Should have checked with the park earlier but regardless, it didn't stop us to enjoy other rides.
Old Oil Well @ Wild Wild West
Old Oil Well keeps your brain juice flows upstream and downstream alternately in between the oscillation that doesn't go beyond 180 degree (it exceeded once during my turn and twice during others). Screaming Condor aside, this has to be one of the rides that one should try there. There is mini roller coaster and ride along man-made canal which you can have opt out if you are pressed against time. But the rides at the next area are more to my kind of, fun.
Pagoda's Revenge @ South Pacific
Being brought up to 53m high, hanging for 3 seconds before free falling. I tried this ride 3 times. If you noticed my screaming in the video, it doesn't mean I'm scared or anything but just like to scream on top of my lungs, to my heart content, while enjoying the ride.
Another ride that you simply can't miss would be Mighty Mountain Flame Adventure, where you have a ride on the canoe and going down the slide twice, whereby the second slide is much steeper and higher. (There's a water bomb that you can activate for 10 yuan when your friend's canoe are passing by to splash your friends further after the slides.) You will get wet.
Mighty Fountain Flame Adventure @ South Pacific
View of Arabian Kingdom from Flying Carpet
After all the adventurous rides at the park, it is a good idea to mellow down on the activity at African Safari. There are some of the animals that I never saw before such as llama, meerkat and camel. There's a tour bus that goes into the cage, like a mini safari where you can see bears, tigers and lions, just right outside of the bus.
Llama
Camel, cousin of Llama?
Meerkat (when I thought it is called "possum". Too much of "Ice Age")
They look so cute while standing, and pose.
The tiger is doing his manicure/pedicure during the bus tour.
Lion couple
Baboons, reminded me of cartoon series that I watched during my childhood, "Weasel"
The bus tour closed at 1630 hours and I don't think you would want to miss this. Once you are done with all the rides at all other three areas, I would advise to queue for the bus tour the first thing as the rest you can do at your own pace.
Despite of the mascots at their website, there was no parade held throughout the day (I was rather positive since we were there the whole day). We bade farewell to Leofoo as the clock struck 5 o'clock.
Is this theme park a must visit? I would say, "depends". We may not achieve the objective of our visit to the park but there are certain rides I never tried before. It's good enough for those who are going to theme park for the first time and it's subjective to those who have been to a few.
Is this theme park a must visit? I would say, "depends". We may not achieve the objective of our visit to the park but there are certain rides I never tried before. It's good enough for those who are going to theme park for the first time and it's subjective to those who have been to a few.
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