Wenzhou Amusement Park was, if nothing else, amusing

Hey everyone,

I usually have Mondays free from work, the only day of the week that I don’t have to work at all, and last week some of my TAs invited me to go to the Wenzhou Amusement park. Now I had never been there before, but I’m going to be honest, based on what I know about China I didn’t have super high hopes, but I was still excited to go. See something different, something other than Lingxi. So we got up bright and early at like 6:45, met up at 7:30 and got on several busses to finally get us there around 9:30.

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…and finally visited an Ancient City (May Holiday Part 5)

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So I’m pretty sure that most of you, if not all of you, have at some point stopped at a truck stop on the side of the highway. Gone to the bathroom, grabbed some food, gassed up and continued about your trip. Well they have those in China too, they’re just a lot smaller.

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…and went to Chinese Hollywood (May Holiday part 4)

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So as I said in the title, I went to the Chinese equivalent to Hollywood. The place is called 横店HengDian (pronounced Hung Dien). It’s a actually pretty cool concept when you think about it. You know how in America if they want to film something in New York they just go to New York? Or they need to film in Miami, they film there. Well rather than incurring all of these massive costs of moving all around the Chinese country to film shows, they just built a fake everything in HengDian. They have a fake forbidden city, they have fake Shanghai streets, the have fake castles and courtyards and everything a movie could need. It’s pretty cool…at least I thought so.

It was raining most of the day that we were there, but we still got to see lots of cool stuff.

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