Monday, October 5, 2009

Day 35 - Zhongshan Park & Jianghan Street

Another free & easy day! But this time is a little different, the tour guide that went to Wudang mountain with us actually came with us this time too. We chartered a bus to bring us to Hankou and the tour guide will actually bring us to some of the attractions there.

Our first stop: Zhongshan Park

Its actually like a normal park where lots of the public will come here in the morning to have some recreational activities and also to catch up with each other. But at the other end of the park, there is actually a theme park there! There was the usualy roller coaster, viking ships and etc. Some of us went on the try the rides.

Their roller coaster here!

Second Stop: Jianghan Street

After the theme park, we took a train to go Jianghan street. Their train system here is similar to Singapore. But instead of using a card, they use a token and tap like how you do it in Singapore. Upon reaching Jianghan, all of us split up and go for our lunch in groups before proceeding to do our shopping. The street is so big that by the end of the day, we could only finish 1/4 of the place!


Their train token vending machine

The token we use

Doesn't this looks like a SMRT train?

The interior looks like 1 too

Jianghan street! Where all the shopping starts.

After finishing our shopping, we were supposed to take a boat back, each ride cost 1.50Rmb. The boat was actually a public transport for the people here too.

Wuhan harbour

Everyone waiting for the ship to arrive

Everyone squeezing and trying to get a seat on the ship


Reflections
Their theme park here are really different from those in Singapore. Their system is actually pay-per-ride instead of buying a single entry ticket to enjoy unlimited access to the rides. There was also cases of corruption happening inside the theme park. Instead of going to the counter to pay for the ride, the operator at the ride actually ask us if we want to take the ride together, we could actually pay her the entry fee in secret and she will also charge us a cheaper price.


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