New Zealand adventures

New Zealand is known worldwide for its adrenaline pumping, action adventures. It’s also the home of Bungee jumping - AJ Hackett was the man who first came up with our modern bungee jump (inspired by the indigenous people of Vanuatu) in the
1980’s and has built quite a company here. You can bungee jump, catapult launch and do the Nevis swing here in Queenstown.

Jordan, being an adrenaline junkie has always wanted to do the swing, and talked me into joining her months ago when I was planning this trip. I am NOT an adrenaline junkie so this was a hard one. I agreed to it when I learned, statistically I had more risk of death DRIVING to the location, then I did actually doing the activity. So today was the day!

We boarded a huge, powerful bus in the city first thing this morning and were driven up into the mountains about 40 minutes. We climbed some VERY steep winding hills, but made it. Jordan had decided to add on a bungee jump to her package so once there, she went first. It is the 14th highest in the world at 135 meters. Amazing to watch.

After she did her jump we headed over to the Nevis Swing - the biggest swing in the world!! It is 160 meters high - you drop 70 meters in a free fall and then swing out 300 meters. We did it together which made it fantastic. I was PETRIFIED getting onto the swing but it was actually one of the most awesome experiences of my life. Really fun.

We left Queenstown and then took an hour drive North to Lake Wanaka to spend the night. We went up and over a massive mountain to get here - a series of switchbacks that were very intense.

Again … this country is absolutely amazing.

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