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A visit to Germany’s most remote park

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Rügen Park

Miniature Village and Heege Rides

At the edge of the village of Gingst on the island of Rügen is the Rügen Park, a miniature park of decent size, which has grown into a small leisure park through its expansion. Typical for a small park in Germany you can find half of the Heege product range here, which is not bad for classics like the Butterfly, Luna Loop or the Nautic Jets.

The showpiece area and at the same time the root of the park offers miniatures from all over the world, but also regional buildings in small format. The level of detail is quite high, but the small gimmicks on the edge are missing, which is for example the Miniatur Wunderland in the Hamburg Speicherstadt.

The park railway and Familienachterbahn

The main attraction of the park is the Chance Park Railway, with the classic C.P. Huntington train. But there is also a second train in this park. This one has a funny grimace and belongs to the Zamperla children’s roller coaster, which luckily doesn’t try to kill you right away, like the Vagones Locos from the Parque de Atracciones de Madrid do. The ride with wide open safety bars was quite adventurous, but for the children, where the safety bars were mostly closed, the ride was a lot of fun.

Pictures Rügen Park

Conclusion Rügen Park

The Rügen Park is, if you are ever on Rügen, worth a visit. It is best to visit this park in the high season of the island, because then you can be sure to do everything without annoying conversations. Both the park railway and the roller coaster don’t really run very often, so it is advisable to wait a few minutes in front of the ride rather than postpone your visit to the back of the park and thus not enjoy the ride.

 

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Rügen Park

One hour in Jaderpark

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Jaderpark

My first goal for today was to go to the North Sea to take a closer look at the amusement park of the showman family Ludewigt, which is located in Jaderberg. The animal and amusement park Jaderpark, known from the ARD Zoo-Dokusoap Seehund, Puma & Co, has a small amusement park and a quite large zoo.

The park itself is built in a rather unusual way, thus there are always some turnings and one has to pay attention to which part of the park one has already visited in order not to miss other parts of it. The newest part of the park is again the exact opposite, but is still under construction in some places.

Wildwasserbahn

The amusement park part consists of some used rides, some of which were bought directly from the funfair, but some were also taken over from other parks. The big log flume of the Italian manufacturer SDC, for example, came from the showman Heitmann-Schneider and was on tour in Germany in the early 90s. Interestingly, however, there are hardly any rides by the showman Ludewigt in the park.

Holzwurmachterbahn

The big family park roller coaster of the park is the Holzwurmachterbahn. This medium sized Zierer Tivoli rides wonderfully and has a nice design too, apart from the large noise barriers.

Giraffenturm

At the outer end of the park you will find a Twist & Turn Giraffenturm made by Metallbau Emmeln. This combined teacup, Ferris wheel and observation tower ride is also totally convincing in the Jaderpark and can produce the odd twist & turn. To be honest, it is a miracle that this type of carousel is not to be found in every park of this size; it would at least be desirable.

The park also offers a chance to see the C.P. Huntington type park railway and a classic Mack boat ride with several pavilions along the way where Mowgli, known from the Jungle Book, warbled a few songs.

The Zoo

The part of the zoo itself unfortunately offered some rather small and therefore not species-appropriate enclosures, also the variety of animals was very manageable, so that one was quite fast through with this part of the park. The new part of the park was in this respect already better and above all more freely arranged; only there were no shady places in the sultry heat during my visit.

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Conclusion Jaderpark

Unfortunately, the visit of the Jaderpark was not really worthwhile, as after one hour at the latest, one was already done with the whole park. But due to the low entrance fee, the price-performance ratio was quite ok. Anyway, a visit in combination with the nearby Tier- und Freizeitpark Thüle is a very interesting day trip and therefore highly recommended.

 

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A day in Walibi Aquitaine

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Walibi Aquitaine

After I spent a year in France in the years 2005/06 and did not come to count except for a trade fair for agriculture, where among other things a Reverchon spinning mouse, a Mondial TopScan and some other funny rides could be found. I had to make up for this during my visit in the lower Saxonian easter holidays in 2007. The destination of the excursion was the Walibi Aquitaine amusement park.

As the season always starts late in France, we were able to visit the season start of the largest regional amusement park in the southwest of France shortly before my departure. Walibi Aquitaine is well known to everyone but this does not automatically mean that there is something going on in the park during the low season.

Coccinelle and Boomerang

The park itself is only medium in size, but has some good rides for the whole family. In the front part of Walibi Aquitaine you will find, besides a children’s area with the Coccinelle roller coaster, the biggest roller coaster of the park: Boomerang. This Vekoma Boomerang was the first one I saw and I was thrilled from the beginning. The ride through the three inversions is incredibly fun in the forward direction, but in the backward direction the whole thing is skilfully topped once again. The original HUSS-Arrow trains did their best, especially when it came to repeat runs.

Bateau Pirate

Not far from the Boomerang you can carry your dinghy up the steps of the dinghy slide yourself or slide down the carpet slide on a scratchy carpet. This only depressed the mood a little, the southern French could make up for it in the nearby boat swing Bateau Pirate. The slogans during the ride were simply too divine.

Radja River

Also the Intamin rapid ride Radja River enjoyed a visit. The ride through the beautifully designed course could offer a good moistening, which we gladly took up more often thanks to the short waiting time.

Splash Battle

The situation was somewhat different in the rather young Splash Battle. The Preston & Barbieri ride, built in 2006, was able to soak without any resistance (after all, almost all water cannons were broken), but most of the effects were switched off, which really spoiled the fun.

Drakkar and Zig-Zag

However, if you want to get wet, you can go on the Soquet log flume Drakkar in the northern area of Walibi Aquitaine. The boats had no outlet for the water, which was therefore accumulated in the back of the boat during the lift ride. Also the splash was so big that even with only two lightweight people in the boat you got completely soaked. Luckily there is an Italo mouse from Zamperla right next door, which could blow you dry again in a very short time. The layout of the Zig-Zag doesn’t come close to a Wild Mouse of German manufacturers, but convinces with its smaller drops on the lower levels of the ride.

Tam Tam Tour

The sea lion show is definitely worth a visit for many French people, as the park suddenly became deserted during the show times. Also worth a look is the boat trip Tam Tam Tour, which was taken over by frogs during spring. The otherwise quite nice African themed ride becomes quite eerie due to the loud frog croaking, especially since you cannot even see the frogs so quickly.

Apart from a water fountain show, Walibi Aquitaine also offers some good flatrides, such as a tea cup ride, a wave swinger and Chance Chaos, which unfortunately was broken on my visiting day. The park also has a long ride in a vintage car, which is nicely situated in front of the old building in the middle of the park.

 

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