The vast acreage of the Happy Valley amusement park in Shenzhen has almost every attraction anyone would wish to enjoy including three exciting rides one of which is the suspended looping roller coaster also known as the Snow Mountain Dragon in Clouds that is guaranteed to thrill. Unlike conventional roller coasters there is no track or carriages. Riders are on seats suspended from the track with their feet dangling in mid air making the ride all the more thrilling and scary. Safety precautions ensure that riders are firmly positioned in their seats and are in no danger of falling off. This state of the art coaster is said to satisfy even the most intense thrill seeker. As China’s first looping roller coaster it was and is one of the star attractions at the amusement park.
The 641.4 meter ride starts tamely enough by taking riders up to almost 36 meters, the highest point in the elevated section of the roller coaster. The fun starts when they are plunged 34 meters down soon afterward. The coaster then banks to the right and enters the first loop followed by a sidewinder, which is half a loop, after which it goes into the sea serpent roll or a roll over, the first of the inversions. After 3 more inversions as part of the helix, riders experience twists and turns one after the other, before making a banked curve to the right for the journey back to where the ride started. By the time passengers have gone through the 85 km / hour ride for one and half hours and have been subjected to a 4.7 G force, they are thoroughly shaken but have had the time of their lives and screamed at all the appropriate places. The unique two abreast design of the seating of the roller coaster allows the twist and turns of the track to provide more movement. Riders swing with every movement heightening the thrilling experience. If this experience is not enough, the amusement park offers a Bullet Coaster and a Mine Coaster for additional thrills but these rides don’t offer inversions.
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