Skyline Luge Busan
Gravity luge tracks carved into a coastal cliff, with a chairlift ferrying riders back to the top for another run.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Skyline Luge Busan in Gijang traces the ride's origin far from Korea, to a sheep farm on Mount Ngongotaha in Rotorua, New Zealand, where landowner Hylton Hensman opened a gondola in 1985 and spent a year perfecting a cart's brakes and steering. It follows how that design found its way to a cliff above the sea in Busan, where engineers carved four tracks and built a two-station chairlift to ferry riders back up. The lift itself splits across two routes, one through forest and one along open water.
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