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New Zealand Adrenaline Pumping Adventure Activities
Jump and feel the rush with AJ Hackett’s Kawarau Bungy

Adrenaline Pumping

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Adrenaline junkies rejoice! New Zealand has an exciting array of white-knuckle thrills just waiting for you to explore.

Experience the thrill of New Zealand’s famous bungy jumping at spectacular sites throughout the country. Zorbing is another unmissable Kiwi thrill sport, as you roll down a hill inside a giant transparent ball. Or how about some extreme descending as you go heli-biking or heli-skiing or snowboarding in New Zealand’s rugged mountains?

If high altitude thrills are your thing, you can speed through the air as you try hang-gliding, paragliding or skydiving, or try the more unique Canyon Swing or Fly by Wire rides.

New Zealand’s waterways provide even more thrilling activities. Go jet boating and brace yourself as the driver pilots the boat at breakneck speeds and then suddenly executes a heart-stopping 360-degree spin! White water rafting is another popular high-adrenaline activity, and only in New Zealand can you drop over the highest commercially rafted waterfall in the world – and live to tell the tale!

Most adrenaline rush activities can be enjoyed by people at a range of skill levels, and New Zealand operators abide by the strictest of safety standards and quality control systems.

The home of bungy

Although the original idea came from the people of Vanuatu in the South Pacific, New Zealand is home to the first commercial bungy operation in the world, AJ Hackett Bungy.

After extensive research and a high-profile publicity bungy from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, AJ Hackett and Henry van Asch opened the company for business at the Kawarau Bridge, Queenstown in 1988. In the first year of operation, 28 people paid $75 dollars each to leap off the 43 metre bridge with a bungy cord attached to their ankles. And the craze caught on.

The company is now one of many around the country, and around the world, offering adrenaline junkies the ultimate fix.

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