Kilimanjaro water slide. The highest water slides in the world

Do you consider yourself a true adventurer? In this case, you will be interested to learn about the most exciting rides that mankind has just invented. In this article, we will present a list in the world and find out why they acquired their status.

Formula Rossa

To survey the largest in the world, perhaps, it is worth starting with the largest attraction located in the United United Arab Emirates. It should immediately be noted that the presented design is not the most massive in all the globe. However, thrills are guaranteed to visitors of the attraction due to the crazy speed with which the trolleys move.

Deciding to ride the roller coaster Formula Rossa, extreme people get the opportunity to feel what it's like to race at a speed of 240 km / h on cable car. At the same time, the peak height here reaches an indicator of 52 meters.

Alton Towers

The monumental structure, which recently opened in the British Staffordshire, has as many as 14. This fact alone allowed the attraction to forever enter its name in the Guinness Book of Records.

The most extreme rollercoasters are the property of researchers who long time studied the true nature of human fears. Based on the data obtained, the engineers managed to develop a truly terrifying design.

In addition to the crazy speed, which reaches 85 km / h in some sections of the “track”, there are special effects in the form of holographic images that further increase the level of adrenaline.

Superman: Krypton Coaster

Considering the largest roller coaster in the world, you can not ignore the attraction located in Texas Six Flags Fiesta Park. Superman: Krypton Coaster is famous primarily for the presence of a huge dead loop. Her height in extreme point reaches 44 meters. While chained in the trolley, visitors to the attraction carry out full rotation 360 on such a terrifying trajectory.

Kingda Ka

The attraction, located in the Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park, can rightly be called "the largest roller coaster in the world." Its visitors are able to fully experience what happens if you go into a free fall from the height of a 45-story building.

At the same time, the biggest roller coaster in the world gives you the opportunity to ride along winding paths at great speed. Despite the fact that the journey in the trolley lasts no more than a minute, this is quite enough to raise the level of adrenaline in the blood for the rest of the day.

Silver Star

The biggest roller coaster in the world is impossible to imagine without an attraction called Silver Star. It is located in the German park "Europe". Such roller coasters are not only a favorite pastime local residents, but also attract the attention of thrill-seekers from all over the world. The attraction, designed by Mercedes-Benz engineers, reaches a height of 73 meters. Within an hour, about 1,700 visitors pass through it, who overcome winding slides at a speed of 130 km / h.

Steel Dragon 2000

The attraction, which is located in the Japanese amusement park "Nagashima", does not claim to be the "Biggest Roller Coaster in the World." However, the relatively small height, as well as the lack of lightning speed during the movement of trolleys, are fully compensated by the total length of local tracks. It is the duration of skiing that attracts the attention of fans of extreme pastime to such slides.

It is worth noting that Steel Dragon 2000 is the most massive attraction in history. It took an unimaginable amount of steel and concrete to build. The Japanese engineers were forced to implement such a decision by the increased seismic activity that is observed in the region. Given the likelihood of an earthquake during the ride on the attraction, it can be safely called one of the most frightening in the world.

Eejanaika

If we consider the largest roller coaster in the world, the attraction called Eejanaika, located in the Japanese amusement park Fuji Highland, should definitely be on the list. In addition to numerous take-offs to an impressive height, visitors can expect crazy flips around their own axis, the passage of a number of dead loops. All this makes even the most notorious extreme seeker feel genuine fear.

Tower of Terror

A roller coaster with such a frightening name is located in the city of Queensland (Australia). Visitors to the attraction, who dared to sit in local trolleys, soar with an arrow to a height of about 120 meters.

After stopping at the peak of the largest rise, there is a free fall, during which the riders find themselves in a state of complete weightlessness. Only after a few such hesitations are the rather frightened roller coasters allowed to leave the trolleys.

Finally

So we looked at where the largest roller coaster in the world is. Our review presents only a small fraction of the largest attractions on the planet. But it is they who look the most intimidating for true fans of extreme sports.

The ideal vacation is a concept that everyone understands in their own way. For some, an imposing pastime on the beach is optimal, while others get real pleasure from an active or even extreme vacation.

The heart beats faster, every second a huge portion of adrenaline is released into the blood, and in the meantime the brain seems to turn off, but the colorfulness of sensations does not decrease from this! Believe me, you will have enough impressions for many years if you dare to conquer the largest water slide in the world!

Summit Plummet

In a water park called Disney Blizzard Beach, which is located in Florida, there is one of the most extreme water slides - about 37 m in height. Despite the fact that the summer here is always sunny and quite hot, those wishing to descend from the Summit Plummet will find drifts of snow at the top and along the entire route, because of which this attraction looks rather unusual and looks more like a ski jump. But since the snow is artificial, the probability of freezing something for yourself is reduced to zero.

To climb the Summit Plummet you do not have to make any special efforts - for this there are cable car. And if the climb is easy, then it is at the top of the water slide that you will have a very hard time. Why? Because you need to have nerves of steel to sit in a narrow gutter, let go of your hands and ... experience an incredible feeling when you are rapidly falling down at a speed of 100 km / h. Ready? Then Summit Plummet is waiting for you!

For more than 15 years, this slide has held the proud title of the highest water slide in the world. Its height is 41 m and it is located in the water park, which bears the name of Fortaleza beach park. And if you have planned your vacation in the Brazilian resort of Fortaleza, then you simply do not have the right to pass by its luxurious attraction, which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records.

Insano is a water slide that not everyone dares to slide down. Its descent is almost vertical, and in height it is equivalent to a 14-storey building. Anyone who dares to climb to the top of this Brazilian attraction will be able to find out what a bird's eye view is and fully enjoy the surrounding landscape.

But the view of the coast and the port city is not the main thing! You are at the top and now you should gather all your will into a fist and make a real flight down. Its duration does not exceed 7 seconds, but due to the huge speed, which is about 105 km / h, the sensations are incredible! During this short time you will experience amazing, incomparable feelings!

Verruckt

But the biggest dose of adrenaline awaits you in Kansas City, where the Verrückt water slide awaits all the madmen in a park called Schlitterbahn. Only real daredevils are able to agree to this adventure, since this slide is not only the highest in the world, but also one of the most extreme. By agreeing to this flight, you get several pleasures at once:

• fast travel on a water slide;
• an incredible track design that wags like rails on an American roller coaster;
• amazing turns that make you fall down and immediately soar up.

And all this happens at an incredible speed, which reaches 120 km / h. The highest section of the Verrückt water slide is 52 m. And when compared with well-known buildings, then, for example, the Statue of Liberty will be half a meter lower than this attraction. The same can be said about some other world landmarks such as the Tower and Niagara Falls- they are also inferior in height to this amazing water descent.

In order to reach the top of the Verrückt you will need to overcome 264 steps. At the top, risk-takers are already waiting for rubber rafts, each of which can accommodate 3 people. And then only a dizzying flight from the height of a 17-storey building and another 180 m of incredible extreme! At the same time, the first fall is not the only one - immediately after it, you will be lifted to a height of about 5 floors and carried further along a narrow and, as it seems to many, an endless chute.

Do you want to tickle your nerves? Then you are on the highest water slide in the world!

It is difficult for adventure seekers to stay at home within four walls - they are always looking for something new and interesting for themselves. For this, rides in amusement parks are great, which can give you a real adrenaline rush. But today there are many more ways than crazy rollercoaster rides.

And if you want to up the ante, then the world exists theme parks, which are some of the highest water slides! And here are some of them:

1. Waterslide "Verrückt" (Kansas City, Missouri, USA)

Since 2014, Kansas has been home to the tallest waterslide in the world. Standing 168 feet (51.21 m), its starting point is even higher than Niagara Falls, and a three-person boat can travel nearly 45 miles per hour (72 km/h).

Unfortunately (or fortunately), adrenaline junkies won't be able to experience the thrill soon, as the waterslide is scheduled to close for the foreseeable future after an accident occurred on it in 2016.

2. Waterslide "Kilimanjaro" (Mato Grosso, Brazil)


Located on the territory state parkÁguas Quentes, "Kilimanjaro" is only a few feet lower than the water "Verrückt" - 164 feet (50 m).

They say that this slide is so steep that the body practically does not touch its surface until you are at the very bottom.

3. Waterslide "Insano" (Fortaleza, Brazil)


Located in the park "Beach Park" (Beach Park) on tourist resort in Brazil, "Insano" is a waterslide that will take you down at 65 miles per hour (104.61 km/h).

That means it's not going down by boat: it's just you and the slide, which is 135 feet (41.15 m) high. The ride ends with a four-second splash fall into the pool.

4. Scorpion’s Tail Waterslide (Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, USA)


The Scorpion Tail Waterslide is located at Noah's Ark Waterpark, considered the largest amusement park in the United States.

The uniqueness of this water slide is that you do not even have to make an effort to go down - a special mechanism will do it for you. All you have to do is stand on the platform inside the pod and it will open up underneath you, forcing you to quickly descend the 400-foot (121.92 m) covered slide.

5. Jumeirah Sceirah Waterslide (Dubai, UAE)


Another super-extreme waterslide for real adrenaline addicts is located in Dubai, in the Wild Wadi Waterpark. It's like the Scorpion's Tail waterslide, where the floor you step on drops out from under your feet and you begin your fast-paced 102-foot (31.09 m) adventure at 80 miles per hour (128.75 km/h).

6. Waterslide "Free Fall Kamikaze" (Free Fall Kamikaze) (Algarve, Portugal)


Kamikaze Free Fall is a 104-foot (31.7 m) waterslide built in 2015 at Aquashow Water Park. You will get pleasure comparable to a ride on a winding roller coaster. A journey at a speed of 70 km/h with a length of almost 129 meters!

7. Waterslide "Leap of Faith" (Leap of Faith) ( resort complex Paradise Island Atlantis Resort, Bahamas)


If descending an extraordinarily high waterslide is a piece of cake for you, Leap of Faith might test your strength.

Located at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas and surrounded by a real paradise, this waterslide will give you a colorful adventure on a 60-foot (18.29 m) slide.

An additional challenge is to slide into a pond with sharks swimming in it. Yes, that's right - sharks. But don't worry! You will stay safe because you will "dive" into this body of water on a covered slide.

8. Waterslides "Cliffhanger" and "Screaming Serpents" ("Cliffhanger" and "Screaming Serpents") (Galveston, Texas, USA)


Schlitterbahn Water Parks has two attractions for adrenaline junkies. Either you go to the Cliffhanger and enjoy the 81-foot (24.69 m) drop, or choose the Screaming Serpents for another spectacular immersive ride. In general, if the adrenaline rush is your thing, then it is better to ride both slides!

May 8, 1976 there was a real revolution in the world of roller coasters. Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park in California opened the world's first steel loop coaster. In our time, a dead loop is far from the worst thing that the creators of attractions are ready to offer to adrenaline lovers who line up in long lines around the world to tickle their nerves. We offer you a virtual ride on the ten scariest rollercoasters in the world!

Attention: for the faint of heart, those who are afraid of heights and people with a weak vestibular apparatus, it is better not to look further!

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1. Silver Star, Europa Park, Rust (Baden), Germany

The Silver Star, the highest slide in Europe, has been tickling German nerves of steel since 2002. Using a system of chain lifts, they will first slowly lift you to a height of 73 meters, and then they will drop and circle at speeds up to 130 km / h.

2. Tower of Terror II, Dreamworld, Queensland, Australia

The first "Tower of Fear", opened in 1997, managed to scare more than 8 million Australians, and in 2010 it was launched again and became even scarier. Riders leave the tunnel and in 7 seconds reach the top of the vertical tower with maximum speed 161 km/h At the top of a 35-meter tower, they freeze for a moment, after which they fall down in horror.

3. Steel Dragon 2000, Nagashima Spa Land, Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, Japan

The Steel Dragon is no longer the fastest or tallest slide, but it is still the longest. And also the most expensive ever made, thanks to the amount of steel used in the construction, it is necessary to make the slides resistant to earthquakes. But, even if we do not take earthquakes into account, this monster definitely deserves its place in our top ten.

4. Kingda Ka, Six Flags Great Adventure, New Jersey, USA

Kingda Ka is a long-lived rollercoaster in the world, but to this day remains the tallest roller coaster in the world with a dizzying record of 139 meters. However, during its history, the attraction had many problems. In 2005, the slide suffered a variety of mechanical damage that affected the starting engine and rope system. Fortunately, all the problems were completely fixed, but in 2009 Kingda Ka was struck by lightning, causing new damage. Now this is really scary...

5. Intimidator 305, Kings Dominion, Virginia, USA

A relative newcomer to the rollercoaster world, the 305 Intimidator (it's scary just the name...) won the 2010 Golden Ticket Award for Best New Rollercoaster.

6. Dodonpa, Fuji-Q Highland, Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.

How slides can surprise lovers thrill, if they are not already the fastest, tall or long? Doponda knows the answer - the biggest acceleration! Confusing riders with not the most frisky start, Doponda suddenly accelerates to 172 km / h in ... attention ... 1.8 seconds! And then tosses you up and down in an almost vertical loop.

7. Superman: Escape from Krypton, Six Flags Magic Mountain, California, USA

Until 2011, Superman: Escape from Krypton was known simply as Superman: Escape. But after a new coat of paint and the addition of rearward-moving carts, a new amusement superhero was born. With speeds up to 160 km/h and climbing to a height of 126.5 meters, the updated "Superman" knows exactly how to get you a shot of adrenaline.

8 Thunder Dolphin Tokyo Dome City, Tokyo, Japan

The Thunder Dolphin is rather modest in terms of speed, height and acceleration compared to other participants in the list, but it has its own unique "trick" thanks to which it got into it. The path of the "Dolphin" passes through the concrete ring, and also goes around the real building at a distance tickling the nerves.

9. Formula Rossa, Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Formula Rossa - on this moment the fastest slides in the world. Accelerate to 240 km / h in less than 5 seconds. The speed is so high that those sitting in the front row have to wear special goggles so as not to injure their eyes.

Another slide from the same park, but worth it. These slides are “with twists”, and in the very literally words. Eejanaika is the so-called 4D roller coaster, which actually means that in addition to the usual ups, downs and loops, you also get ... 360-degree rotating chairs! Can rides get even scarier?

Water attractions are leisure, salvation from the summer heat and good mood. We have collected in the review the most extreme water slides, which also guarantee a solid dose of adrenaline. Such entertainment is suitable only for the most daring thrill-seekers.

Snake River Falls is the oldest slide.

In 1870 on the shores of Lake Erie in US state Ohio Cedar Point Amusement Park opens. The main attraction of the park is the water slide Snake River Falls, along which you move down from a height of 25 meters at a speed of 65 km / h.

Perilous Plunge - Risky Step

Knott's Berry Farm in California is one of the 13 most visited theme parks in the world. North America. One of its 40 attractions is Perilous Plunge(Risky Step) - a boat that seats 24 people, which falls from a height of 37 meters at an angle of 77.8 degrees. The speed of the boat falling is 85 km/h.

The tallest waterslide in the world is located in Kansas City at the Schlitterbahn Water Park. Verruckt translated from German - "mad". From a hill 52 meters high, daredevils roll down at a speed of 80 km / h.

Summit Plummet: at the speed of a car on the ass

Isano - slide from the Guinness Book of Records

The 41-meter Insano waterslide at Beach Park in Brazil has entered the Guinness Book of Records. The 14-story high hill rises above the trees and most of the buildings in the surrounding area. Few people dare to fly down almost a sheer hill at a speed of 105 km / h in 5 seconds.

Kilimanjaro - almost a mountain peak

Kilimanjaro is known to be the name of the high mountain in Africa. And this is also the name of a 50-meter water slide in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, from which water extreme lovers fly off in 5 seconds at a speed of 91 km / h. Moreover, the slide pipe is extended further down the hillside. Kilimanjaro is so high that every twentieth person who has climbed to its top refuses to slide down.

Spacemaker: 100 km/h on a rubber raft

In Venice, Italy, the Aqualandia water park is home to the Spacemaker waterslide. On it, you can slide down with your friends from a height of 40 meters at a speed of 100 km / h on a 4-seater raft. Wherein most of The track is built at an angle of 60 degrees. Spacemaker is one of the 20 waterslides you can ride in Aqualandia.

Jumeirah Sceirah: Incredible Fall Down

Dubai has the most high building in the world, so it is not at all surprising that it is in Dubai that one of the highest water slides in the world is located. Jumeirah Sceirah is pride Wild water park Wadi Water Park. Recently, this water slide has been reconstructed and now it has become even faster and more extreme. Two people simultaneously suddenly fall into a hatch opening under their feet and fly through a 120 m long pipe at a speed of 80 km/h.

King Khajuna

The star attraction at Spain's Port Aventura's Aquatic Park is King Khajuna. This waterslide was named after a character in an ancient Hawaiian legend. The height of "King Hajun" is 31 meters, and anyone can ride along the chute, built at an angle of 55 degrees, at a speed of 6 meters per second.

The Devil's Drop - Devil's Drop

"Devil's Fall" is a rather intimidating name for a 29-meter waterslide located in the Aquarama water park in Castellón, Spain. Devil's Drop boasts the steepest water chute in Europe - a whopping 62 degrees.

Scary slide Xpirado

The waterslide at Xpirado Water Park is one of the most unique rides on this list due to its stylization of a menacing piranha. Having flown 32 meters at a speed of 87 km / h, as a result, the daredevil falls into a hot spring.

VertiGO is the highest slide.

VertiGO was launched on August 1, 2013 at Aqualandia Park in Benidorm, Spain. It bears the title of water slide from the very great height free fall in Europe. Visitors climb to the top of the hill, where a hatch opens under their feet. The height of the fall along the chute with water is 33 meters, and at the end a person develops a speed of 96.5 km / h. At the same time, there is another descent, lower, if the visitor does not dare to climb to the very top of VertiGO.

The Wedgie - the coolest turns.

Wedgie slide at White Waterpark water world, located in Coomera, Australia, is an engineering marvel created by ProSlide. In 6 seconds, a person travels 18 meters in a stream of water in a closed pipe, that is, he descends at a speed of 3 meters per second. At the same time, the hill is notable for its sudden turns. Gradually, the rate of descent decreases towards the end of the tube.

Stukas

Near Verona, Italy built a water park called Caneva. It is notable for its attraction called Stukas - a 30-meter water slide in the chute of which a person accelerates from 0 to 100 km / h in less than 3 seconds, faster than any Ferrari in the world. It's so fast that 40 percent of people refuse to ride the slide after climbing to the top ten-story landing. Stukas has the reputation of being the scariest waterslide in Italy.

Booster Loop: in a transparent tube with a height of 7 floors

Booster Loop is one of the fastest circular water slides in the world, which is located in the Aqua Park near Lake Geneva in Switzerland. In the Booster Loop, people roll from a height of 7 floors in a transparent tube at a speed of 80 km/h. For visitors there is a prerequisite - they must weigh at least 50 kg.

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