how does 4 minutes sound?
that is how long it will take to travel the new 1,140-meter-long water slide being built at Penang’s Escape Theme Park, it will most likely be declared the longest in the world when it
opens, in August 2019, already 65 percent complete, the slide already measures
705-meters-long, and when finished will take thrill-seekers on an epic 4-minute
ride from the top of a hill, through a lush jungle before, dropping them into a
large swimming pool at the bottom, Escape Theme Park announced that the
remaining 435-meter section of the water slide will be completed in time for
its August inauguration,
“Our plan was to build a water slide which would enable visitors to view the whole park and we did not intend to break the world record. Nevertheless I am proud of what we have achieved,” Escape Theme Park CEO, Sim Choo Kheng, told Channel News Asia, above a short video of the ride,
and here a slightly longer look at the slide, “I am overly
concerned over the environment here so we tried our best to maintain the
greenery by not chopping down the trees,” Sim Choo Kheng added, typically, to
build a slide this long would require building a tower about the height of a
20-storey apartment, which is both very costly and unsightly, especially in
such a natural setting as the Penang jungle, so Escape Theme Park decided to
use one of the nearby hilltops as the launch point for the water slide, which riders
will reach via cable car, as of yet no indication of prices for the ride, but what a thrill it will be!
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