31 August 2011

World's highest "Ferris wheel", on top of 450m Canton Tower, Guangzhou, China

Canton Tower is also known as Guangzhou TV Tower or Xiao Man's waist.

Specs:
- 6 pods which can hold 96 passengers in total.
- each capsule is 3m wide
- each capsule built using macromolecule material, allowing 360-degree view
- inclined at 15 degrees
- resists 8-magnitude earthquakes & Beaufort scale 12 typhoons
- elliptical track
- pods take between 20 and 40 minutes to go round
- Cost to passengers: 130 yuan each






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