Let the dark and mysterious forces of this ancient jungle temple take you for a thrilling spin around its towers and pillars. From a nail-biting climb to the peak of the rickety structure to the screeching turns and sudden drops around the ruins, you'll discover what it takes to become a true action-adventure archaeologist!

Attraction Experience

Walk in the footsteps of Indiana Jones on an unforgettable expedition to a forgotten jungle civilisation. The first expedition to the Temple of Peril departed many many months ago... but they were never seen again.

Approaching the temple, the abandoned base camp and the thick vegetation doesn't look promising. The distant whirring of mine cars draws you closer, as you climb the imposing staircase to the temple entrance, where your adventure into the great unknown of the jungle really begins...

The expedition vehicle climbs the rickety chain lift to the top of the excavation site. Any sign of the first explorers down there? There's no time to even catch your breath - you're hurled suddenly into a twisting, turning, plunging ride around the temple ruins, driven around and around, over and under by the mysterious forces which reside here. 

Forget the first expedition, you'll need all the courage of Indiana Jones to make sure you live to tell your own tale...

Fun Facts & Footnotes

Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril reaches a summit of around 52ft, with a total track length of 1968ft.

The track layout of the Indiana Jones is copied from the first looping roller coaster built by the Pinfari company. Pinfari called this a TL-59, the TL stands for "The Loop" and the 59 is for the ride's 59m width. This Intamin version copies the course, but uses a track style that is unique to Intamin.

The style and basic design of this attraction was used as the inspiration and basis for Tokyo DisneySea's Raging Spirits coaster, which opened on 21st July 2005 next to the park's Indiana Jones Adventure, almost as originally envisaged for Paris..

History

Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril (aka Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril) opened on 30th July 1993 behind Adventure Isle in Disneyland Park, Paris. It was not officially inaugurated until December of that year, but was then finally given a lavish ceremony starring none other than George Lucas himself.

An Indiana Jones attraction had been on the drawing board for many years before, but due to the resort's ongoing financial difficulties the attraction went through numerous changes.

Originally, guests would have been able to experience a full-scale Indiana Jones land-within-a-land, featuring a huge mine cart roller coaster based on the infamous sequence from "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". The ride would have taken guests through wild jungles, around the lost temple and inside a large showbuilding for the mine chase scenes. Rumours often circulate of other attractions to have been included in the area, such as Disneyland's EMV (Enhanced Motion Vehicle) Indiana Jones Adventure and a new Jungle Exploration attraction based on the classic Jungle Cruise.

Ultimately, the constrained budgets and requirement for a high-thrill attraction (at this point, Space Mountain was still 2-3 years away) brought the birth of Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril as we know it, a custom-designed looping coaster manufactured by Intamin AG of Switzerland. Despite lacking an indoor showbuilding and the same scale as its "blue sky" predecessor, the final attraction stays true to the heavy themeing of the original plans, with enough landscaping, winding paths and lush vegetation to make even the most frequent Disneyland guests lose their way in the jungles of Indiana Jones.

A l'Envers! (Backwards!)

Seeking a new attraction to market for their 2000 season and wanting to bring more interest back to the attraction, the Imagineers of Disneyland Paris embarked on an ambitious project to create 'Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril: A l'Envers!' - 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril: Backwards!'.

In addition to removing the bodies of each train from their chassis and reversing them, the team totally changed the dynamics of the ride by adding an extra two seats to each car, bringing the total for each two-car train from 8 to 12. Lighting and props had to be reversed throughout the ride to ensure guests didn't see any signs of "backstage", and the track of the roller coaster itself even had to be altered and reprofiled at some points. Since guests travelling backwards are unaware of upcoming curves and drops, their bodies are unable to prepare for the movement. This meant some of the sharper drops and curves had to be "softened" to make the attraction a comfier experience.

The reconfigured attraction reopened on 1st April 2000. On 27th November 2004, the attraction was "reversed" once more, returning the trains to their original, more popular forwards direction.