A NEW Amazon-themed land was opened at a lesser-known European theme park earlier this year, with new rides, attractions, restaurants and shops. There are so many theme parks across Europe that some inevitably end up getting overlooked. Included in that is Bellewaerde in Ypres, Belgium, home to a theme park, a water park and an animal park, all in the same place.
And back in March it added to its range of offerings with a brand new land, Mundo Amazonia, which cost €21m (£17.7m) to build. The park's website boasts of having "four sensational attractions" in the new land, all of which are hidden in tropical forests with winding rivers.
lt also brags about having a "world first with the Amazonia water attraction". The ride is said to combine "the pleasures of water with a crazy elevator" as well as the largest halfpipe in the world. As part of the ride, families are plunged into the halfpipe on a their circular tube boats before they are taken back up by a rotating vertical lift.
From there they experience the "world‘s first" rapids ride bungee, according to ride designers Intamin , who worked on the attraction. They said: "Amazonia embodies the culmination of decades of knowledge and technological innovation which Intamin has gathered over the years together with a great partner such as Bellwaerde, willing to push the boundaries of traditional Rapids Rides to the next level. "We take immense pride in this collaborative project with Bellewaerde.
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