1: Six Flags Great Adventure: Truth or Dare?

Location: New Jersey, USA

Ticket price: $38.99 for online bookings

Founded: 1974

Number of facilities: 45, including 13 roller coasters

Six Flags Amusement Park was originally a private park called Great Adventure, but after being acquired by Six Flags more than a decade ago, it has expanded and added new facilities almost every year.

The newest roller coaster, called "Kingda Ka", is the fastest roller coaster in the world, reaching a height of 139 meters. At the beginning, the water pressure catapult increases the speed of the vehicle to 206 kilometers per hour, passing through a circular passage of 270 degrees, giving a strong sense of weightlessness.

Also new is the 44,500-square-metre jungle Golden Kingdom, where children can watch a tiger show while riding a motorcycle.

According to the Associated Press, the world's longest and steepest wooden roller coaster, claimed to be the world's longest and steepest, opened to the public for the first time on June 12, 2006 at the Six Flags "Grand Adventure" amusement park in Jackson, New Jersey, USA. Passengers on that roller coaster are screaming. The wooden roller coaster has 4,440 feet (1,320 meters) of tracks, a height of 188 feet (56.4 meters), an incline of 76 degrees, and a speed of 102 kilometers per hour. Amusement park officials say it's the world's largest wooden roller coaster.

Text: Liseberg: Challenging the heart's endurance

Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

Ticket price: $8.5 per person over 7 years old, free for children under 7 years old

Founded: 1923

Number of facilities: 35

Number of tourists in 2004: 3 million

When it's not dull, the park is home to the world's steepest wooden roller coaster, and during the busy summer months, the park is often filled with the screams of the brave as they do freefall. Drinking parties or tea parties are also often held here.

The park has its own stars, but if you're lucky, you might be able to spot big names like Edith Piaf, Birgit Nilsson, ABBA, Marlene Dietrich, Sammy Davis Jr or Jimi Hendrix. Concerts, shows and theatre are among the main attractions of the park, and the stage here never rejects any form of music, whether you are a fan of heavy metal or an opera lover, you will find something to suit your tastes on its program.

3. Gardaland: Adrenaline rushes

Location: On the shores of Lake Garda, Italy

Ticket price: $30 a day, free for children under 10 years old

Founded: 1975

Number of facilities: 40 seats, with an average of 40 performances per day

Number of tourists: Over the past five years, the average number of visitors per year has been 2.8 million

Garda Sky is the number one actor in the Italian amusement park, and in 2005 he was 30 years old. The new Sequoia Adventure roller coaster is also the park's most exciting ride, with the idea of getting the adrenaline pumping so fast that the four-seater car crashes into the air at high speeds and completes the lap completely slowly. The Sequoia Coaster reaches a maximum height of 30 meters and constantly has 180° sharp turns, which make the rider feel the thrill of repeatedly going from high to low to high.

Another new highlight of 2005 is the 4D movie "Robots on Mars", which tells the story of three cute robots who embark on their amazing adventures on the difficult task of putting the universe in order. The high-definition 3D image effect makes you feel like you're in the middle of it.

4. Alton Toers: The most thrilling maneuver

Location: Staffordshire, England

Ticket price: $40 for adults over 12 years old

Founded: 1980

Number of facilities: 28

Number of tourists in 2004: 2.4 million

Alton Tower Park is the UK's largest theme park, and when it opened in 1980, its spiral roller coaster was one of the hottest rides in the UK at the time. In 1998, it opened the world's first vertically swooping roller coaster, which ran on the first day, with the queue going around the park on the first day, and according to statistics, the average waiting time for each person in line that day was 6 hours. The popularity of Alton Tower is evident.

5. Port Aventura: Adventurer's Paradise

Location: Salou, Spain

Ticket prices: $45 for adults, $36 for children and seniors

Founded: 1995

Number of facilities: 33

Number of tourists in 2004: 3.1 million

PortAventura is home to more than 1 million square meters of breathtaking landscapes and more than 30,000 different species of plants. The scenic area is divided into five parts: Mexico, Polynesia, China, the Mediterranean coast and the western United States.

In these different regions, you can sail from the mild Mediterranean climate to the tropical climate of Polynesia, step on the Great Wall of China and reach the Mayan ruins of Mexico, where you can experience the thrill of western cowboy life.

In the newly opened project "Hell Condor", visitors fall from a height of 96 meters, and the mat is actually tilted, giving people the feeling of free fall.

6. Busch Gardens: Unleash the wild

Location: Tampa Bay, Florida, USA

Ticket price: $55.95 for adults

Founded: 1959

Number of facilities: 29

Number of tourists in 2004: 4.1 million

With a guide who walks into the habitat of hippos, coyotes, vultures, crocodiles, baboons and more, you can walk through waterfalls and the fog shrouded in virgin forests, and even see primates such as gorillas and chimpanzees hiding deep in the dense jungle.

Even more exciting is the rides at Busch Park, where the new SheiKra takes the crown of the world's tallest diving roller coaster, which flips continuously and then descends into an underground tunnel with a large dive about 42 meters high, and then rushes through the waterway close to the ground at high speed, splashing violently and causing all nearby tourists to get wet and scream. It climbed to a starting altitude of about 61 meters, broke free from gravity at a speed of 112 kilometers, and was weightless for a full 3 minutes, with a total length of about 800 meters.