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New Tenerife waterpark now open

By Caroline Wilkinson    29 Sep 2008

Siam Park, an Oriental-themed waterpark, in Tenerife, Spain, is now open.

The waterpark, owned by the Kiessling family, is built alongside its sister attraction Loro Parque – an animal park and aquarium in Adeje, on Tenerife’s south coast.

Siam Park features water rides, sea lions, a children’s play area called Lost City, a wave pool, golden beaches and a surf school plus five bars and restaurants.

The park will also be home to a floating market and tea house, exotic island waterfalls and an aquarium as well as a lazy river, which at 1.3km (0.5 miles) will be one of the world’s longest.

In total, it has 11 major water attractions including a six-lane speed slide and a twin cyclone ride supplied by Proslide.

Proslide also supplied a Tornado ride for the park, which will be designed as a dragon.

Professor Ruthai, the dean of architecture at Bangkok University, has designed the park, which is themed as a Thai village with over 25 different buildings on site.

The Kiessling’s have invested over 50m euro (US$74m, £40m) in the 185,000sq m (1,991sq ft) attraction, which will be launched in two phases.

The water for the park feeds from the sea into a special reservoir where it is then desalinated and heated to 23ºC before feeding into the attractions.

The water is recycled afterwards to water the plants in the park. Siam Park’s energy comes from the first natural gas system installed in the Canaries and was specially chosen because of its lower carbon emissions, as one of the key aims of the waterpark is to minimise impact on the environment.

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