Friday 8 May 2015

Parque de la Selva

Located in the north east of Leon was the location of next park. A huge resource for people visiting theme parks is the roller-coaster database which my research feeds into, and it is fair to say most people planning trips will use the data on this site as we'd done for the sat nav.

We knew that Parque de la Selva was an indoor park so turned up at the coordinates provided to us. Imagine our confusion when we found this was a huge supermarket and there was no sign of a theme park in it at all. We stylishly made it look like we'd come in for a toilet stop whilst one of us opened up the smartphone, and tried to ensure the location was correct. Fortunately their website had an embedded google map and we could see that the actual location was half a mile east.


The park has been open since 2006 and looked like they'd done a good job on the exterior. A large sign was forewarning of a planned closure which panicked us until we realised it stated "from" not "until". So it was open and we were able to buy the ride card and topped it up for the big spinning coaster that we knew the park had.

I recognise the sign from China, so clearly these guys had imported stuff from there.


and this theory was confirmed with a standard model of spinning coaster that is abundant in China. A slight difference is that the lap bars are typically locked in with a chain as a third safety mechanism behind the seatbelt and lap bar but they were omitted here.

The ride was pretty decent, and it was obvious that having 3 people in the car would cause the spinning to be a bit more intense than if we'd had a group of 4.


They'd done a really good job in here with some well kept rides and some nice touches of theming.


There is a second coaster in the park and its another popular Chinese model. The ride operator wouldn't let us ride this initially despite the girl at the entrance charging us for the ride with no issue, so I had to go back out and try to sort out the issue. Somehow I managed it as a supervisor was called to tell the operator off and let us ride. Again using the "solo y solo y solo" line worked and here we showed our club membership cards to show that we were legit. 

Just do as Roger told you.

Riding this proved to be a bit of a challenge. I couldn't fit in the seat so had to sort of sit on it and everytime the train turned I had to fight quite hard to stay upright and the last thing I wanted to do was fall out. That would have been embarrassing. Having said that the picture was shared around the office at work and I came back to lots of people telling me they'd seen quite a funny picture of me. Thanks Joe!

In the corner a giraffe films the circular dodgems.

The park has a haunted house which we decided to check out.


They'd done a pretty good job to be honest. There were no live actors and nobody pretending to be a child like we experienced in Selva Magica.


But it was quite a lengthy attraction and by the end of it I think we'd seen enough bloody mannequins and disturbing dolls.

Nice!

I'm not sure this name is appropriate. It sounds more like a viagra product.

These were cool, I remember a game as a kid where you'd hang monkeys like these from a tree and the weight would eventually cause an orang utan to climb a tree and hit a giant banana.

I'm not on drugs, honest.

Found it after a little trawl on line.


One corner of the park had this tower you could climb and I think zipline off.

and on the way out a random selection of UV friendly balls. I doubt very much that Mr Claw would be able to pick them up. We didn't try.

Parque de la Selva. A nice indoor park and I was quite pleased with my Spanish negotiation skills that got us on the second coaster despite the humiliation that would be welcoming me when I got back home. 

Now it was time to continue south for our next fair.


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