Summer Trip (Part 5) : 苏州乐园 & 拙政园
Friday, got up earlier to finish up the English materials before turning up at work.
Preparing my breakfast & lunch at the same time.
There were some leftovers last night so I packed some this morning.
Watching drama while multitasking =P
Over at my last day at the office, I was glad I made the English classes interesting. Hehe! I really could consider becoming a teacher instead. LOL!
For lunch, I ate my own spagethi I brought to work today.
Towards knocking off, it was raining heavily and I took a lift back to the apartment in Mayun's husband's car. It was really nice of him!
Got home and continue to eat spagethi again.... -_- nothing else to eat and I don't want to eat alone outside nor da bao.
I have arranged to meet Simon 10am at the entrance of Suzhou Amusement Park on Sat so I figured to just finish cooking the very remaining spagethi & meat for our lunch tomorrow.
Eh this is lunchean meat slices into cubes + canned nasi padang mixed together! =P
Boiling spagethi. The ends were a little burnt but still can eat la! HAHA!
After the spagethi done then I put it in the pan! HAHA!
Damn funny I'm actually cooking/preparing food.
It will be cold by noon time tomorrow but aiya don't waste food la, still edible! LOL!!
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Saturday, took a cab and headed towards Suzhou Amusement Park.
Simon was nice to be my guide as he was the only Suzhou-ese as my other colleagues were from other province.
It was at a different district of where I live so the distance was quite far and the bill total up to be RMB100+ which was about SG$25.
It was a misty day... grey clouds hovering....
But one certainly can't miss the huge sign!
I wanted to purchase the entrance tickets but Simon already bought and he said it was his treat.
One ticket cost about RMB125, also not that cheap in SGD.
Upon entering, this was the first scene I saw.
According to Simon, Suzhou Amusement Land is basically a 2nd or 3rd grade of Disneyland or any other theme park.
So every statue or objects are basically copied from somewhere. Haha!
That statues there is in a rather suggestive pose....
That animal is a lion actually.... fancy pushing a lion towards errm... his crotch area! LOL!
Pretty flowers at the garden!
How can I miss taking pics with flowers!
Another nice looking peacock!
First ride of the day! I remembered taking this in Genting with Ah Xiang before!
Ok, it actually looked as if it could go really high & fast....
We queued up for it and soon it was our turn....
Perhaps I was getting old and more no guts,
I was trying to take a video of myself but I got freaked out! HAHAHA....
Haha, still quite ok la. Not as horrifying as I'd imagined to be. If I had remembered correctly, the one at Genting the seats flew up even more angled than what I just took.
Finally we reached to the other side of the cable car but I think it wasn't part of the amusement park. It was basically some mountain range for interested ppl to climb. The view was little misty up there.
Here's overlooking at amusement park as well as some skyline.
In Suzhou, you hardly see skyscrappers. Suzhou is supposed to be a preserved 古色古香 city.
Hence there are govt regulations that developers need to comply.
So it was quite rare to see those skyscrappers.
The greenery is just amazing. I could smell the morning dew!
Ok, moving on...
Yup, you can still climb further!
Happily showing the remaining steps to reach on top....
Many steps as it may seem, it was quite a lovely view.
Here is the view of the utmost top. A lot of factories....
At the time my legs were quite wobbly, there were no railing or any protection, if you lose your balance, you fall, you're gone.
Everyone is responsible for forest fire prevention.
Quite good English compared to the atroucious ones I spotted quite often around China lol
If only the sun came out just a bit more, picture/lighting would have been a lot better.
FRESH DEW!!!
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!
While taking the cable car back down,
managed to snap the name of the amusement park ala Hollywood style lol
So we decided to experience their 3D. I'm quite a fan of 3D/4D. But errr... not to impressive la, but not too nan kan either.
After the 3D show, we queued up for an indoor roller coaster. I remembered there was one that is something like that in Genting and I closed my eyes throughout the entire ride. For this ride, it was quite thrilling! At least got a bit of 'standard' la for an amusement park lol.
We exited to a lok kok looking souvenir shop. No ppl at all, even the staff was also playing/texting with her mobile. The toys/souvenir weren't even nice/cute looking, who wants to buy? Aiyo...
We went out and looked around some more.. saw this impressive looking fountain!
We decided to have lunch so I took out the spagethi I brought and passed Simon one. Basicaly I ate the spagethi since last night, it was already opened & cook. Will be a waste to throw it and beside I know food inside an amusement park would be so overpriced so I'd rather we go cheap.
While eating halfway, some lady actually came & ask where we got the noodles. LOL! I said I prepared it myself. They walked away disappointedly lol. I placed them inside the plastic bento I da bao from the Jap restaurant last night. I da bao some sushi as dinner... Not bad ah, can reuse.
I wasn't really enthu about taking anymore rides so I continued to explore the place.
They have some sphinx statues.
At first I was just snapping randomly and was reviewing my pictures.

Nothing unusual except I noticed the man was carrying SIX BAGS!!! LOL!!!
I zoomed to the max for capturing this pic! LOL!

Poor thing la, kena abused like that~ LOL!
Another lovely feature. Something you'd want your garden to have.
But I'm not so sure about the amount of effort & cost for maintanence.



Kinda creepy that a statue have such life-like eyes
that you can feel the lion is staring RIGHT at you, isn't it?
I was wondering how this place would look like if it was at night?
Gardens look pretty at night too, don't they? Sparkling water etc

Mini coliseum spotted!

Quite a pretty sight upclose!



Got crazy and decided to do jump shots! Muahaha!




Not one but two couples shooting wedding photos there! LOL!

Behind the coliseum was a little enclosed garden with statues. Decided to pose like model with it =X


I'm not quite sure why the lion was biting the man's ass...

...nor why 2 men are kissing in such an awkward position....

Wont the neck get strained?
Lady sitting with poise on a lioness.


Is this some kinda symbol of athority or something?
Fallen female angel and a roaring lion in pain?

One-arm warrior with bow subduing a lion?

Seriously I don't quite understand the artistic direction of these statues....
Anyway, the amusement park was a huge place and I come to realise it's not just a place to take rides but they also have a lot of fake European buildings and Greek-style gardens for photo shooting.
They even have a huge man-man waterfall.


By right, humans are not permitted but we saw ppl climbing over and take pics, so what the hell la. Just for a while only. Just be careful and don't slip and fall into the water. =P
My kind & helpful guide for the day, Mr Simon Zhang.

...and some unknown photobomber in the background -.-
We took the train ride that goes around the premise of the amusement park. To be honest, nothing impressive but ok, will give them some credit. We went passed the waterfall again and I took a video of it. I'd say the waterfall was one of my favourite highlights over there :)
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