Thursday, March 3, 2011
"Queenstown - Aghhhhhhhh" Tomandlizzie's photos around Queenstown, New Zealand
A TripAdvisor⢠TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Queenstown, New Zealand by TravelPod blogger Tomandlizzie titled "Queenstown - Aghhhhhhhh" Tomandlizzie's travel blog entry: "07/09/08 Got up and set off to Queenstown, as we were entering the town we passed the first ever Bungee - The Kawarau Bridge bungee jump, one of the three AJ Hackett Bungees. I had a look but we had already decided that we were going to do one - the highest one. We headed into town and had a drive around Lake Wakatipu then went and booked our bungy for the following afternoon. Queenstown was a nice town with lots of boutiques and restaurants, there were also loads of people with all their ski gear on which made us jealous as there is so many slopes around that area. 08/09/08 - L Got up scared and spent the whole morning wishing we were doing the smaller bungees at 43m or 47m, but instead we had signed up for the 134m Nevis Highwire Bungy. It was a 30 minute ride in a bus with about 20 other jumpers. We were then harnessed up and 4 of us were taken out to the bungy pod aboard a shuttle that crossed the canyon. This was scary enough as it was windy and the bungy pod is swinging and is held by wires but this adds to the effect. There were also glass areas in the hanging pod so u could see all the way into the canyon. Tom went second but I could hardly watch I was so scared. He seemed fine though and was looking down as he walked to the platform!! We then had to watch and wait for everyone else to ...
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