Located quite a drive north-east of Mexico City towards the city of Pachuca is the Feria de Mineral de La Reforma. Too large to play as a Scrabble move but hopefully an opportunity for us to add a few points to our coaster count.
A large fountain display at the entrance was keeping the kids cool. Today was quite a hot day and we were out literally out in the desert.
Emergency Services were close at hand. Perhaps the risk of fire is quite high out here.
A haunted walkthough attraction formed part of the initial set of attractions. Better to have to walk past things like these rather than displays of pottery and jacuzzis as we'd done previously.
This was a circus, and I would guess one that featured animals quite heavily. A quick look on the net revealed that this was the case and I came across a rather interesting story reporting that they were held up and had a white tiger stolen in 2012.
I'm not a fan of animal circuses so didn't bother checking this out.
There was a small farm paddock where animals could be fed and petted.
Any volunteers to pet the tarantula?
A purpose built diving show.
and a tiny bullfight.
A nice two-storey carousel marked the entrance to the fair rides area at the back of the complex.
First up was the Wild Mouse coaster with a strange sign that could only be read when viewed from the side. This ran well but would never be as good as the crazy spinning one we'd ridden at the previous fair.
Again another good selection of rides some clearly to small for us...
...including unfortunately the second coaster, themed around what would happen if the Flintstones stumbled upon an explosion in a highlighter factory. We think this one was called Picapiedra which is Spanish for Flintstones.
Wacky Worm #11 we were certain we hadn't ridden before and offered nothing out of the ordinary.
It's the El Chavo crew again. I wonder if that does translate to The Chav?
This one like Gus at the Monterey Fair was discounted as a coaster on account of there being no hills or drops. A flat circuit just makes it a train.
and that was the fair. A long drive for 2 ticks. We were happy with that. It was now time to head towards the airport.
No comments:
Post a Comment