Shambhala
Shambhala: Expedición al Himalaya is a steel hypercoaster located at PortAventura Park in Salou and Vila-seca, Spain. Manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, it was the tallest and second fastest roller coaster in Europe at the time of its opening.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Roller coaster
- Description: roller coaster
- Also known as: “Shambhala (roller coaster)”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dragon Khan and Templo del Fuego.
Dragon Khan
Roller coaster
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Dragon Khan is a steel sit-down roller coaster in the PortAventura Park theme park in Salou and Vilaseca, Catalonia, Spain. It has eight inversions, which was a world record until the opening of the ten-inversion Colossus in Thorpe Park, United Kingdom in 2002.
Templo del Fuego
Amusement ride
Photo: Christophe95, CC0.
Templo del Fuego is an amusement ride, which is situated 290 metres northwest of Shambhala.
El Diablo
Roller coaster
El Diablo is a roller coaster, which is situated 350 metres west of Shambhala.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Pineda and Punta del Porroc.
La Pineda
Suburb
La Pineda is a coastal resort which forms part of the municipality of Vila-seca in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain.
Punta del Porroc
Locality
Photo: Txapisotegi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Punta del Porroc is a locality, which is situated 3 km southwest of Shambhala.
Vila-seca
Town
Photo: Tabalot, Public domain.
Vila-seca is a municipality of the comarca of Tarragonès, in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain. It has a population of 23,917. The historical name was Vila-seca de Solcina and since the 80's known as Vila-seca i Salou until Salou was segregated from Vila-seca on 1989, however the municipality includes the urban areas of La Plana and La Pineda. Vila-seca is situated 3 km northwest of Shambhala.
Shambhala
- Categories: hypercoaster, amusement ride, steel roller coaster, building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Salou, Tarragona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
41.08853° or 41° 5′ 19″ northLongitude
1.16223° or 1° 9′ 44″ eastOpen location code
8FH335Q6+CVOpenStreetMap ID
way 366353436OpenStreetMap feature
attraction=roller_coasterOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q391332
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Shambhala” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Shambhala (errusiar mendia)”
- Basque: “Shambhala”
- Catalan: “Shambala”
- Catalan: “Shambhala, expedició a l’Himàlaia”
- Catalan: “Shambhala”
- Dutch: “Shambhala Expedicion al Himalaya”
- Dutch: “Shambhala Expedición al Himalaya”
- Dutch: “Shambhala”
- French: “Shambala”
- French: “Shambhala Expedición al Himalaya”
- French: “Shambhala”
- German: “Shambhala”
- Polish: “Shambhala: Expedición al Himalaya”
- Polish: “Shambhala”
- Spanish: “Shambala: Expedición al Himalaya”
- Spanish: “Shambhala (montaña rusa)”
- Spanish: “Shambhala”
- Swedish: “Shambhala”
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