Sunday, October 28, 2007

Leofoo Village

Welcome to Leofoo Village - an amusement park with four theme parks: African Safari, Arabian Kingdom, South Pacific, and Wild West.

African Safari is more of a zoo. Look! authentic black bears!


As we rode the tour bus, it felt like we had taken a route through the set of Planet of the Apes. I've never seen so many primates in one space before.


Employees wear theme-related uniforms. Sky cycling:



Looks familiar...



A cooperative poser:




Ring of Fire:


My favorite ride was the Sultan's Adventure. You walk through a creepy haunted house to an underground spooky ride. It is unpredictable, diverse, and just the right length of time. You sit in a rickety old Jeep that speeds along, jolts, dips, shakes side-to-side, and goes again. The ride plays upon many fears, including things you can see, feel, and hear. All the displays are very elaborate. Ghosts, mummies, monsters, warfare, wind, screams, snakes, and darkness.

It was like Indiana Jones meets The Pit and the Pendulum.


Onto lighter matters.



I was dampened by this Flute Mountain ride.


Pagoda's Revenge is similar to the Hellevator, only this ride consists only of a single rise and drop. It's over before you know it happened.


Into the Wild West. I don't think most train rides are as crazy as this one.



The Screaming Condor is my second favorite ride. It takes off Bruce Lee quickly.


You're shot up into the sky at one end,


go underground through the loading area, and then shoot out the other end of the tunnel and up this:

A river ride that was fun, but not as much fun as actual river rafting.


Look out!


I got soaked. There's a waterfall and getting wet is inevitable unless you have a raincoat with you.


It's getting dark, you know.


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

OMG!

Anonymous said...

This is in Taiwan? Where?

Elizabeth said...

It's in Hsinchu. Here's a link with the address: http://traveling.network.com.tw/taiwan/point/10.html

If you do a Google search you can find the park's official site. However, it's in Zhong wen.

Anonymous said...

The link is at:

http://www.leofoo.com.tw/village/

The map is at:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Taiwan&t=h&z=17&ie=UTF8&ll=24.820763,121.182858&spn=0.004538,0.010729

Have fun