Craziest Water Slides

Towering at over 100 feet, the craziest water slides from around the world excite fearless thrill seekers. From Dubai and the Bahamas to the shores of Brazil, these slides are engineering models which have taken years to build. Water slides have made their way into the Guinness Book of World Records, and many remain on the adventurous bucket lists of summer fun enthusiasts.

Citta del Mare Hotel Village - Siciliy

Sicily’s most scenic water park attraction runs down a cliff on the northwest coast of the island. A surprisingly large resort, this park features eleven slides. On a sun-drenched summer day, the turquoise slide, which is open to guests of the resort, complements the clear-blue waters of the Gulf of Castellammare— the end point of toboggan. Keep your eyes open: the slide passes three decks, and each level delivers spectacular views of the 67-acre property. By now you’ve no doubt seen the pictures of the epic water slides that run down a cliff and deliver you into Mediterranean Sea. Travel + Leisure even named the slide one of the world’s craziest attractions when pictures began circulating back in 2012. The slides are located at the Citta del Mare Hotel Village in the province of Palermo, Sicily. If you’ve already read Citta del Mare’s reviews on TripAdvisor, you might be wondering if the slides are actually worth it. The choice is yours!

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Wildebeest - Santa Claus, Indiana

First off, the slide has a freaking lift hill, which means you don't have to drag your tube up endless flights of stairs. You hop on the conveyor and ride toward the steepest point of the slide, similar to the tracking at the beginning of a rollercoaster. At one-third of a mile long, the slide takes riders on a thrilling journey that lasts for nearly three minutes! The initial drop is four-stories-high and whips patrons through eight total drops, several swirls, and two exciting underground tunnels. Because of the innovative lift hill, this slide is ideal for patrons who struggle with stairs but still seek summer thrills. You just sit back and enjoy all the drops, hills, laterals, and pops of airtime that Wildebeest has to offer you. The Wildebeest is based in Santa Claus, Indiana at the Holiday World and Splashin' Safari, which was built in 1946. Looking for bonuses aside from the legendary slide? The park boasts free parking, soft drinks, and sunscreens!

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Leap of Faith - Atlantis, Bahamas

Do you like huge drops, history, and marine biology? The slide, which starts at the top of the Atlantis Mayan Temple, propels riders through a clear tunnel submerged in a lagoon filled with sharks. With a sharp drop of nearly 60 feet, the slide offers an especially significant thrill. The tunnel runs alongside a lazy river ride that also goes through the shark tank at a much slower pace. Ride both to get up close and personal with a variety of sharks! If this doesn’t get your adrenaline pumping, then challenge a friend to race on the Challenger Slide. Check your times to find the winner. Access to all slides is included with your stay at the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort.

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Summit Plummet - Orlando, Florida

This ride is part of Disney World's popular water park, Blizzard Beach. The first thing you see when you enter Blizzard Beach is 90-foot snowcapped Mount Gushmore, the world's most photographed faux-mountain and home to one of the fastest free-fall speed slides, Summit Plummet. Designed to resemble a ski jump in a winter wonderland, the ride takes daring park-goers through darkened tunnels and super fast twists and turns. 120 feet from the ground, the slide is one of the world’s tallest and fastest free-fall body slides. The flume extends 360 feet, with riders often reaching around 50 to 60 miles per hour. Check your top speed on the digital speedometer if you don’t believe us.

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The Behemoth Bowl - Guangzhou, China

This slide is located in the Chimelong Water Park, the largest water park in the world. The owners are on their way to having the biggest, tallest, and best water rides on an international level. The Behemoth Bowl is their best, as it is currently the largest bowl water slide. Rather than just including the typical twists, turns, and drops, this ride boasts a water injection system and a thrilling corkscrew exit. Four riders get into a cloverleaf tube. After whooshing through an 80-meter-long translucent tunnel, they plummet into a massive bowl. Centrifugal force propels the riders around the inside and then throws them into the central drop chute.

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Tantrum Alley - Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The Jumeirah Sceirah from Wild Wadi Waterpark in Dubai will appear on many of these lists, but earlier in 2016 it was dismantled with the promise of something bigger. Tantrum Alley, in the meantime, is the park's highlight featuring the first slide in the world to have three funnels that will tumble sliders down the course. All riders sit in four-person tubes, and they are propelled into "tornadoes," which are areas with speedy, circular swirls. Two to four people can be part of each tube.

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AquaLoop - Moravske Toplice, Slovenia

The AquaLoop is a unique slide, because it's the first one to feature a 360-degree loop. The highest point of the Terme 3000 Water Park in Slovenia, the AquaLoop is the fourth-fastest water slide in all of Europe. The whole ride is so fast that it only lasts seven seconds! The park features river rapids, waterfalls, general swimming pools, whirlpools, diving pools, water loungers, and more. The AquaLoop and Terme 3000 Water Park are part of a Sava Hotels and Resorts vacation package, which also includes black thermal mineral water pools.

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Insano - Aquiraz, Brazil

Beach Park is one of Brazil's most significant tourist attractions, and happens to be the largest water park in Latin America. Perhaps the most exciting ride in the park is Insano, to which international thrill seekers flock in enormous numbers. The ride was constructed in 1989. With riders often reaching 65 miles per hour, Insano has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s tallest water slide, standing at the equivalent height of a 14-story building. At the very top of the stairs, riders get a breathtaking view of the ocean and the rest of Beach Park. Frighteningly, the ride takes only five seconds to complete.

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The Abyss - Fushun, China

At a mind-blowing height of 98 feet, the Abyss is designed to take up to six riders on a wild journey fraught with powerful twists and turns. The most exciting attraction at Bali Water Park in China, the slide swirls its riders high up its paneled walls with a near-vertical drop. After funneling down the walls of the dome, riders drop into the core of the Abyss. The ride has uniquely high walls, which allow for bigger drops as tubes swirl around the final dome. Bright tunnels emphasize the Abyss' exhilarating feel. The ride is especially speedy, allowing for 1080 riders to slide per hour.

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Cannonball Loop - Vernon, New Jersey

The Cannonball Loop definitely has made it on here because I am a proud New Jersey native. New Jersey’s Action Park is pretty much the Mecca of bafflingly stupid ride concepts, and exists as part of Mountain Creek's ski resort. Opened in 1978, Action Park has a comical history of drunken visitors and underaged ride operators. However, Action Park/Mountain Creek has since cleaned up its questionable safety record with stronger regulations. Cannonball Loop had a full vertical loop during its operational years in the mid-1980s. This ride was the only one of its kind, and proved so unstable that it was only tested a handful of times. Legend has it that trials featured the decapitation of test dummies. According to some reports, employees who risked it all for test rides developed back and neck injuries, along with severe bloody noses.

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