Chimelong International Circus

From XiangJiang Safari Park, we took a shuttle bus to go to our next destination, Chimelong International Circus it is. Heard it is a good one, we don't want to miss it since we were there!

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We arrived there a bit early and were lucky enough to get some good seats to enjoy the show. Except for the limited VIP seats that charge extra RMB100 each, all of the other seats are charge a flat rate. Based on the first come first serve basis, no wonder many late comers are unhappy about the place they've get.

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Chimelong International Circus is the world's largest permanent circus, opened in year 2005. Since the circus's commencement, it has produced 3 successful and uniquely different shows including the 1st show The Galaxy , the 2nd show The Jurassic Moon , and the 3rd show The Forest Code.

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The current show has created many records, such as having the world’s biggest realistic stage, the world’s most luxurious circus, the circus with the most amount of performers and animals, and many more. Oh well, I haven't been to many circus before, so I'm not really sure about that.

Performances start each evening at 7:30pm, with the show lasting for 1.5 hours. During the holiday seasons, such as Spring Festival and Golden Weeks, Chimelong International Circus adds 2 extra shows during the day. Over 400 shows are performed annually. How productive !!

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But one thing for sure, they inject a huge investment to create the brilliant stage visual effects. The performances, stage, set, costume design and lighting are some of the best in the business. Its hi-tech flaming and lighting effects have successfully create a mysterious dream word.

The circus comprises of many international award winning acts including performers from America, Russia, Africa, Columbia, Kazakhstan and China. The horseman on the left hand side are the world’s most skilled horsemanship from Kazakhstan. Truly make my jaws dropped to see how good the man and the horse are in co-operation.



They even hired a world renowned fashion designer to design all of the costumes especially for this show. I salute for their professionalism.










These 3 beatiful figures are performing at the height of more than 10m from ground. Awesome !

the raining effect is very astonishing too. The whole audience were in a " wow" when it get started.

From time to time, different kinds of animal will take part in the show. For example, the pink flamigos in the glass enclosure over there had really garnish the show a lot.

Those stunts require deadly accuracy. They don't put on any safety strings so I guess they must be very very confident with what they are doing. And that's exactly the reason why their show is astonishing !





What a bound and what a catch! Have they have ever miss the target?





Animals show. As we saw from the zoo, black bears are highly intelligent aninals.

As if riding bicycles are not impressive enough, they can even roar a motorbike. A big applause!

This is the golden medal winner program of the World Circus Competition Flier from Russia.

The 4 man jump, skip, turn 360 deg in the fast revolving wheels while, odinary people can only do these on a flat ground. I never saw something quite like this, it's really one of the greatest show I have ever seen.

Although they do that every night, all year round, they enjoy the audiences' cheers as if they never get enough of it. Thank you very much for your greatest performance.

While they are busy setting up something for the next stunt, animals show will be slipped in.

Monkey show.

Well, this traditional fly-man show had become nothing too fasnicated after we watched the greater stunt before it.

Lastly, the clown show. They are not ordinary clown, but well trained divers. I think their standard is no less than the world class divers.

In the middle of all the silly dives, this clown suddenly came up to beg an audience to dive with them. A young man who sat right in front of us was pulled out. We suspect this young man is their pre-selected partner. This is because the young man wasn't watching the show at all. Instead, he was playing with his mobile phone the whole night. At first, we wonder why the heck he paid to come in if he is not interested? No we know.

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Anyway, we understand. Who want to get themself diving from high, and get wet from head to toe?

The show ended with all of the performers show up on the stage. One last trick, the minute we saw the cage in the middle was empty...

tatatata...a tiger was there in the cage now.

Good bye everyone. I hope to see you guys some time in the future. Stay cool !

With the largest circus stage in the world, the circus stadium can contain more than 8000 guests per show. The night we were there, it's 90% full house. I overheard a lady said she had watched the circus for 2 times, and it still impressed her a lot.

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To me, one of the outstanding parts of the show is its luxurious stage decorations. The stage is approximately 100 meters wide, 50 meters deep, and there are more than 11 levels of different settings. Decorated by different natural and artificial materials, the whole stage looks like a beautiful area inside the deep forest with trees, hills, streams, boats, animals, and all different kind of fairies. Besides the visual effects, the stage itself can make different movements to facilitate and cooperate with the design of the show, such as moving up and down, backward and forward, turning, and so on.

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The other amazing factor is the lighting of the whole stage. The stage is such a large area that numerous kinds of lighting equipment are necessary to create dramatic scenes. In order to make each lights work efficiently, all of the lighting equipment is pre-designed and controlled by a central computer to create different scenes, such as day time, night, or in any other different situations according to the development of the show.

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Now then, I've get addicted to the modern circus setting. In fact, I'm keeping my eyes on Cirque du Soleil, ZAIA in Venetian Macau. See if KS can get any good offer for us...

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