Advantages: BRILLIANT experience Disadvantages: Being convinced that you will die
...there was at the Mokai Gravity Canyon - an extreme adventure park. This is situated 20 kilometres South East of Taihape. Here you can do the North Islands highest bungy jump and New Zealand's highest night bungy jump at 80 metres (262.5 feet). It also has the world's first water powered chair lift and they are currently constructing what will be New Zealand's highest Bridge Swing at 80 metres. However, the most amazing thing here, and the reason ... ...own personal experience of the Gravity Canyon. This will be heavily geared towards the Flying Fox, as you might have guessed from the information above. This is because that is actually the only thing that I tried in Gravity Canyon. I went to New Zealand to attend a wedding of an old friend of ours. He is Australian but used to live in the UK and his wife, who also used to live in the UK, is from Feilding, NZ, hence the reason the wedding was taking ...
annaroos1 20.04.2006 (15.05.2006)
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Advantages: Very exhilerating, lots of fun Disadvantages: Scary, Really scary, Expensive, Very Scary, Hard to Reach, did I mention it was scary?
Mokai Gravity Canyon is a centre for performing a trio of adrenaline sports - bungee jumping, canyon swinging and their world famous flying fox. It is located near Taihape, New Zealand, a couple of hours drive North of Wellington. ===The Canyon itself=== The canyon itself featured in some river scenes of Lord of the Rings, so you may recognise it. The walls of the canyon are sheer and mostly bare with a few lone plants clinging on in a few places. ... ...Centre=== The adventure centre at gravity Canyon consists of a building clinging to the side of the canyon with a viewing platform from which you peek right out over the depths. This centre is the place that you pay for your activities and get weighed. The web pages specify a minimum age of 10 and minimum weight of 45kg for most of these activities and they're rated safe to extremely high weights. Next to the building is the bridge across the canyon ...
beckyXX 29.09.2009
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Advantages: Even someone with bad joints can do this. Disadvantages: You have to be able to overcome your fear of heights though.
Location: Mokai Gravity Canyon, Taihape, New Zealand
The chair Cost: $110
Gravity Canyon is all that people say it is, and then some more. A place for ‘thrilling adventures of velocity and adrenaline’. The canyon is an amazing sight and of course the river should be viewed from all possible angles. Now that was where my problems started. Jealousy.I watched the exhilaration and tremendous adrenalin rush enjoyed by those leaping from the bridge, ... ...I couldn’t do that (thinking of my poor old joints!). The Flying Fox? Wow! That looked amazing… but what a climb to get to the top (the old joints problem again.) The Swing – much better for, let’s say, the mature person, surely. Except that you actually have to step out into space and… AGGH! No, think of the blood pressure. However, the chair looked perfectly innocuous. Of course I could do that. I’d seen children doing it. Couldn’t be so very challenging ...
NomadSue 11.10.2009
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