Taupo Bungy

Hier is de wintertijd inmiddels aangebroken, terwijl jullie nu in de zomertijd zitten. Best gek, want in plaats van de 12 uur verschil aan het begin, leven we hier nu slechts 10 uur later. Nu de herfst/wintercollectie hier al weer in de etalages hangt, vinden wij het dus hoog tijd om het warme weer op te zoeken in Fiji!

Maar wat hebben we …

J’ai commencé la journée par une heure de route pour arriver a Taupo. Une ville au centre de l’île du nord, qui possède un grand lac qui rempli un volcan, et plusieurs centrales géothermiques.

Pludselig var vi igen tilbage på Nordøen, og tusindvis af oplevelser rigere. Det var virkelig en underlig fornemmelse. Meget af vores tur herned har trods alt været bygget op omkring denne del, og nu nærmede vi os pludselig afslutningen.

Men inden det hele sluttede havde vi et stop i Wellington. Vi havde hørt meget om deres nationalmuseum …

I never thought I'd actually do a bungy jump and I had totally convinced myself that I wouldn't. Just a few days ago I was in a frenzy panicking about all the high-adrenaline, adventure, scary activities we could be doing whilst in New Zealand. In my usual mad-panic I had convinced myself that doing a bungy or sky dive or other life-threatening …

Today we were up at a decent hour, we decided to use Taupo's super loo's which we had to pay 50c to get in to use the toilet and then $2 for 6 mins of hot shower which we decided were needed. So after we were nice a squeaky clean we headed to just on the edge of town, where right by the side of the Waikite river was Taupo Bungy.
This was what …

There aren't many better ways to wake yourself up than jumping 47 metres head first into the gorgeous Waikato River with only a piece of elastic tied round your ankles to slow you down. The Taupo bungy (you know, the one Andi bottled out of coz she's chicken) is New Zealand's highest water touch so it'd be rude not to touch the water and it saves …

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The Tongariro Crossing is widely regarded as the best one day walk in New Zealand, and Richard from Wellington had also recommended it to me, and so I decided to give it a shot. Coincidentally, when I went to pay for the bus ticket at Reception the ...

... swinging (and various other ways of throwing yourself off a building). One of the guys was doing a skydive the following day and it was tempting, but I decided to resist and do it in Taupo when I return in about 6 weeks...after I've earned some ...

... room. After chatting for a while, inevitably the talk turned to these adventure activities that seem to be everywhere in New Zealand! I looked at her skydive pictures, and also some photos of her Bungy Swing in Queenstown (something that I definitely ...

... keeping up with his Scottish character is keen to save and also make use of our tent and his new sleeping bag. Actually camping in New Zealand is probably one of the best ways to see the countryside. DeBretts costs a hefty 10 GBP for us both but ...

... taking this challenge on...   Back on the road we continued up to the massive volcanic caldera that is now Lake Taupo. The Huka Falls provided a pleasant afternoon stroll particularly as there was a group of Gap Year yobs enjoying a cheeky jet ...

Today was supposed to be skydive and bungy jump day in Taupo. We watched some geezer jump off the Taupo bungy thing, and even though I really don't want to do a bungy it's only $65 before 11am, so I thought 'get out of your comfort zone and try it!' We ...

... given, legs up out front and then a slight bump and we were down, a few more cheers of joy and it was all over. Skydive Taupo made the experiance one I will do time and time again, well one day maybe! I dont think I want to cheat death to soon again, ...

... the lines of 'wow , It's been ten minutes and I am only 1Km closer to work'... Ever since I landed here in New Zealand , I have made an extreme effort to enter every competition that there is (Collecting wrappers and everything). So far 'Wheatbix' ...

... , the level of thermal activity and sheer magnitude of the volcanic eruptions that have created such foreign conditions. Advancing to Taupo, we find accommodation and we meet a Swedish girl who wants to go bungy jumping and needs another for ...

... a wander around town, we found a pretty picnic spot by the Waikato River, which empties out of Lake Taupo. We ate our lunch admiring the scenery and watching bungy jumpers fling themselves off a platform atop a cliff high above the river. And no, I was ...