Europa Park is Europe’s second most visited theme park in Europe (after Paris Disneyland) and Germany’s largest. Located in Rust (close to Freiburg) in the southwest of the country, you’ll find 14 different themed lands dedicated to European architecture, food and culture.

The park is on 85 hectares and offers more than 100 attractions including theaters with seasonal shows, children’s rides, outdoor stages, a daily parade, and 11 enormous roller coasters. The Euro-Mir is a star attraction in “Russia” based on Soviet space missions. In “Greece”, a high-speed water coaster takes you to the top of Mount Olympus before you plummet into waters as inviting as the Mediterranean. One of the most exciting – for the brave – is Blue Fire in “Iceland” that alerts you that there has been a malfunction before throwing you into a twisted horseshoe roll over a lak