Kawarau Suspension Bridge Queenstown

Kawarau River, Queenstown , South Island, New Zealand
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    Attraction Type:

    Bridge, Landmark/point of interest

Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Kawarau Suspension Bridge Queenstown

  • 1

    Beautiful Milford Sound

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    13th of October

    We spent most of the day travelling to Queenstown which is a well known for Apres-Ski (but it is currently out of the Ski season) and extreme sports. This journey involved passing the Southern Alps which was again completely different scenery to the previous days.

    I spent alot of time during this trip on a …

  • 2

    Kawarau Bridge Bungy Jump

    23 photos

    From Queenstown it was a half hour ride to the Kawarau Gorge for my bungy jump from the Kawarau Suspension Bridge. The Kawarau Bridge Bungy is 43m (140ft) and is world-renown as the first commercial bungy jump operation. AJ Hackett Bungy operates two other bungy jump sites out of Queenstown, one that is three times the height of the Kawarau Bridge …

  • 3

    aaaaaaaaaahhh!!!! bungy!!!

    27 photos

    We had the morning free in Wanaka to have a look round the town and go for a coffee before we were picked up at 2:30pm by another new driver Rob and a new bus full of people!

    We had a walk by Lake Wanaka which was created by large glaciers and it is 45km long and around 312m deep. Legend has it that the great chief Te Rakaihautu carved out …

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    Queenstown

    ... a song...in any case, it did make the rest of the journey a bit more interesting!   The bus stopped of at Kawarau Suspension Bridge, the site of the worlds first commercial bungy site where we all got out to have a look.  However, no one on ...

  • 2

    aaaaaaaaaahhh!!!! bungy!!!

    27 photos

    ... in the coach and saw the bridge i realised i wasn't but it was now or never! The location was the Kawarau Suspension Bridge - this bridge was originally built in the 1880's to provide access across the gorge but fell into disrepair and was deemed unsafe ...

  • 3

    Franz Josef- Queenstown

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    ... Next stop for the remaining passengers was the site of the world's first commercial bungy platform, which was housed at Kawarau Suspension Bridge. None of our bus were particularly keen to recreate the historic first jump, but this wasn't a problem ...

  • 4

    Happy Bungyday to You

    10 photos

    ... at the Copthorne for tonight and Paul has a bungy jump booked for 3:00pm at the original bungy jump location in the world: Kawarau Suspension Bridge, 14 kilometers east of town. That's more of a plan than we have had since arriving twelve days ago. It's ...