15 Most Insane Water Parks From a waterslide in the
Bahamas that runs through a tank full of real sharks to a human water catapult in Austria
and to some of the world's steepest descents and inverted loops. Watch until the end of this video
for the world’s most insane water parks. Number 15 Mayan Temple, Atlantis
The Serpent Slide, located in the Atlantis pool area's majestic Mayan Temple, is the water
park's most thrilling slide, sending passengers coasting through dark tunnels on a twin tube. The
spiralling ride dumps you into a tunnel that runs right through an aquarium's shark tank, giving
passengers the sensation of being perched on an inner tube while sharks swim just a few feet away.
The tube is modest, but it gives you an excellent vantage point for seeing your toothy neighbours.
Number 14 Area 47, Austria Even if becoming a human projectile
is not your ultimate life ambition, you should not miss out on this amazing experience during
your visit to the AREA 47 water park. Across their Water AREA Lake, a massive water jet catapults you
several metres into the air. This ride will appeal to individuals who still get a rush from yelling
"Cannonball!" and then sprinting towards the pool. The park warns that the sensation is "addictive,"
so people who attempt it should be prepared to ride several times.
Number 13 Sachlitterbahan, Texas USA Six stories high! More than 1000 feet in length!
Schlitterbahn New Braunfels Waterpark, has the first water coaster ride,
Master Blaster mixes the ups and downs of a roller coaster with the one-of-a-kind feeling
of being propelled by water jets. To get into position, they are transported down three storeys,
then back up to the launch platform and into a tunnel. Finally, the rider can
catch a look of the tower just left before in a figure-eight around the tower, Master
Blaster blasts uphill and down before approaching the climactic pretzel-shaped descent spiral.
Number 12 Holiday world & Splashin’ Safari, Indiana
Wildebeest is the World’s #1 Water Park Ride! It has the world’s lengthiest water ride and I
mean it. The length of a wildebeest is one-third of a mile! It excites riders for two and a half
minutes of steep slopes, drops, twists, and turns. And it has been voted #1 on the planet
for the previous ten years! The wildebeest has an area of more than two acres and a top speed
of 36 feet per second. The conveyor-style lift hill removes any slide-tower stairs,
allowing riders who have trouble walking up stairs to ride the water coaster.
Number 11 Hurricane Harbour, New Jersey The king cobra is the world's longest venomous
snake, so it stands to reason that the eponymous ride, which debuted in mid-July 2012, will be one
of the most bizarre theme-park attractions. The ride, which is shaped like a huge cobra,
provides a threatening first impression with its large black, yellow, and bright orange scales and
allows two tubes to fly up to 32 mph. Number 10 The Water Cube, Beijing
The Beijing National Aquatics Center, built for the 2008 Summer Olympics, is affectionately
nicknamed as "The Watercube'' by locals, and it's easy to see why. However, since the Olympics,
the Watercube has undergone extensive renovations, and it now houses a gigantic water park
rather than a number of Olympic swimming and diving pools. The Bulletbowl is one
of the water park's crown jewels, with one of the smallest bowls, of any water slide in the world.
Number 9 Wilderness at the Smokies Resort, Tennessee
Riders wait for the countdown until the trap door underneath them is released and they
plunge 39 feet straight down after assuming their starting position on the Wild Vortex.
This water park resort boasts indoor rides with a massive glass canopy
that keep the thrills going all year. Adrenaline seekers, on the other hand,
will want to go outside for the newest challenge: the 66-foot-tall Wild Vortex,
which opened in June 2012. Number 8 Mirabilandia, Italy
With a flume and roller coaster track themed to offshore powerboat racing, Italy's Mirabilandia
theme parks, Divertical is billed as the world's tallest water roller coaster.
It combines the best of roller coasters and water slides. Riders are confined
in cars that resemble speed boats and race around the course. Before the ride begins,
however, an elevator mechanism transports the "boat" carriages 197 feet to the top of a hill.
The automobiles then accelerate to over 70 mph and produce a huge splash in the pool below.
Number 7 Aquaventure, Dubai Aquaventure Waterpark promises a world of
thrill that will make you feel different in more ways than one in the water. Get your heart rate
up with 30 slides and attractions, giggle your way down Dubai's longest Lazy River, and unwind
on 500m of private beach. The Aquaconda, which is supposedly the world's first slide-within-a-slide,
is a standout; the enclosed tube snakes in and out of another flume-style thrill. Poseidon's Revenge
also has two battling slides that catapult thrill seekers up to 37 miles per hour.
Number 6 Waterbom Bali, Indonesia Waterbom Bali is one of the most gorgeous
water parks in the world. More than half of the 3.8 hectares of this certified carbon neutral park
are designated green spaces. Guests can hang ten in the Flowrider wave simulator,
have a giant water balloon war in the Water Blaster Course, or zoom down any of the park's
heart-pumping water slides amongst the palms. The distinctive 'Boomerang' allows you to spin
down a 20-metre drop before being swept straight back up before a stunning free fall. The FlowRider
Double allows you to realise your fantasy of surfing a 5-foot stationary wave on a board.
Surf with a partner on either a stand-up or a lay-down board.
Number 5 Wet’n’Wild, Canada This was the first time that
more than one AquaLoop was installed in a single area at Wet'n'Wild Gold. As riders
descend a 17-metre (56 ft) near vertical slope at speeds up to 60 miles per hour,
they are released from the trapdoor (37 mph). In less than a second,
riders encounter 2.5 Gs of force within seven seconds, the entire journey is finished.
Few water slides can compete with AquaLoop's signature looping rider pictures
and thrilling ride experience, which is part of our AquaLaunch Series and incorporates a launch
capsule start with a trap door freefall drop. The ride experience lives up to the promise,
launching riders into freefall before racing them around a gravity-defying 360-degree loop,
all of which is visible to spectators because to the AquaLoop's translucent fibreglass.
It's a timeless image that has come to represent the peak of high-adrenaline water slides.
Number 4 Yas Waterworld, Abu Dhabi Unlike the majority of the parks on our list,
Yas Waterworld has a very consistent theme. It is based on the storey of Dana, a fictional Emirati
girl who goes on a quest to find a fabled pearl that has been lost in a violent storm.
Her adventure is presented through the park's 40-plus rides,
which include the Bandit Bomber, the six-lane Sebag slide, and the Al Raha lazy river ride.
Attractions at the waterpark are divided into four categories:
Adrenaline Rush, Exciting Adventures, Moving & Grooving,
and Young Fun. Jebel Drop and Hamlool's Humps are the tallest rides, and Liwa Loop is the fastest.
Starting now, things get serious. It’s now time to look at the most insane water parks in the world.
Number 3 Siam Park, Thailand Siam Park is located in the beachfront district of
Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands, and it has the most Thai-themed structures outside of Thailand.
The rides, on the other hand, are the true lure here: Slip through the wide bends of
the four-person Kinnaree slide, plunge down the steep funnel of the Dragon slide, or simply relax
under an umbrella on Siam Beach's white sand. In Siam Park, you can take never-ending tripos,
which are ideal if you're looking for new and extraordinary emotions. This park has a children's
villa with an infinite number of water games for the little ones, as well as an enormous Waves
Palace where surf professionals can practise their sport on waves up to 3 metres high and
amateurs can learn to move their boards, all in a precious space with a fine white sandy beach.
Number 2 Noah Ark, Wisconsin Noah's Ark, known as America's Largest Waterpark,
opened in 1979 and is located on 70 expansive acres in Wisconsin Dells,
the Waterpark Capital of the World. It is one of the best locations in Wisconsin Dells,
with an unending river, three children's water play zones, and two massive wave pools. The
waterpark features various unique attractions, including RAJA: the World's Largest King Cobra and
the massive loop and translucent plastic tubing, the Scorpion's Tail. The entry to the slide adds
to the fear factor—rather than falling into the tube on your backside like a regular waterslide,
you step into a vertical capsule and the floor slips out beneath you without notice.
You drop TEN STORIES before approaching the loop. Now we move onto the moment you’ve
all been waiting for… Number 1 Insano, Brazil
Brazil's 135-foot attraction stands out from the crowd. Riders are clearly impressed, and
they queue up to tackle the dreaded 14-story drop. And those lineups are just going to become longer:
in 2011, Brazil's largest water park had 788,000 guests, a 7% increase over the previous year.
The steep slope creates a fast downhill; Insano drops at 65 mph, carrying riders from start to
heart-pounding finish in less than five seconds. When the 135-foot-tall water slide was built in
1989, it was hailed by Guinness as the world's largest water slide until 1999. Although Insano is
not the world's tallest freestanding body slide, it is one of the world's most extreme rides.
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