How the coaster is? It is amazing!!! For sure still my absolute number one rollercoaster. This coaster is the ultimate dream of every coaster fanatic. Dragon Khan is for sure one of Europes best rollercoasters to this date. I just can say, that my first ride on it took me away in an other dimension of coasterrides.

the ride experience

It was in the summer of the year 2000. It was a sunny afternoon and I was sitting in the last row of a train of Dragon Khan, and this was to be my first ride on this coaster. After nearly an hour of waiting, I could finally get a place alone in the last row on the right outside. Then the train left the station with a short, but fast drop to give all the riders an idea of what was coming up soon. The train was pushed with it's weight foreward into the lift hill, then catched the chain and was transported upwards.

Until here, normal coaster business... But then I was treated with the wonderful sight, that was given to me here. The train reached a height now, where you could have a great look on the full coaster track. I heard several people say words like "mama mia, look at that" or just "oh my god"... Here you could see the legendary eight inversions from an breathtaking angle, and they took my breath away too.

It was the first time since long, that I knew, this ride was going to be more than I had experienced so far... And then it reached the top, left the chain, dropped a little to get pushed foreward and turned the direction into the way for the first drop. No time anymore to think, the first car started to drop and pulled the rest over the edge. The first drop is unbelievable. The train got a very high speed and I thought myself... Wow, this is it! But compared to the rest that would follow, I didn't know at that point, that this was still nothing at all.

Then the train started to drive upwards into the highest vertical looping I can remember. (Today it is still one of the worlds highest vertical loopings). And now I knew this coaster is more. After getting down from the vertical looping, the train already started to go up into the dive-loop, and here it did beside the inversion also a 180° direction change. After leaving the dive loop it entered the marvelous zero-g-roll.

Every inversion was taken with an astonishing wildness and speed... It was just unbelievable. Some inversions (like the cobra roll) were taken so fast, that you really had to concentrate intensive, just to know where you were. I truly lost my orientation. It was wild, amazing and very very fascinating. This coaster treats the riders from the wildest side, and all this with perfect smoothness.

After eight inversions, a highest speed of over 100 km/h and a very wild and long coaster track, the train reached the brakes with still a lot of speed. I left the coaster and thought to myself, that this Dragon is an amazing monster I will never forget.

If you haven't been on it you can't imagine it. Go for a ride and let me know your experience.