Jumping for most people is easy and something learned at a young age, but jumping from a solid base into thin air several hundred metres above solid ground requires significantly more grit. Taking such a jump isn’t mechanically difficult. It’s down to you to make that leap and then entrust your life to what is, effectively, a glorified giant rubber band. One benefit of skydiving is that you’re usually tethered to an expert who knows what they’re doing and takes control of the difficult bits.

Source: The Travel Tester Bungee Jump – China

It’s also worth having your jump filmed – you will want to memorialise your expression when you’re sitting with your legs hanging out of a plane whilst instructor counts down from 3…2…1… In many ways it’s a 2 for 1 experience, as the two parts of the jump are very different. Then your instructor launches your parachute, proceeding to take you on a breathtaking tour of the stunning scenery whilst you glide back down to solid ground. Jumping out of an aircraft at approximately 15,000ft equates to experiencing 60 seconds of freefall towards the clean blue surface of the lake at somewhere close to 125mph. One place we recommend experiencing the sensation of freefall is the over the stunningly beautiful Lake Taupo. However, it’s one of the first adrenaline-rush activities on many people’s bucket list. Granted, throwing yourself from an airplane is going to scare the living daylights out of you in any part of the world. Once you’ve taken the plunge and experienced that rush, you might find that you’re now an adrenaline junkie, and here are a few ideas which will help you get your fix… Sky diving - New Zealand Travel can change people, encourage us to become more adventurous and drive us to experience things which usually seem crazy and well outside of our comfort zones. However – some of us find this rush of natural hormones exhilarating and addictive, which leads us to seek out more and more daring, exciting activities which raises our heart rate, quickens our breathing, and gives us a heightened sense of being alive. The hormone plays a key role in the ‘fight-or-flight’ phenomenon, preparing your body to either fight or run from whatever is stressing you. An adrenaline rush is caused by the secretion of adrenaline from your adrenal glands in response to what your body perceives as stress or anxiety.

Adrenaline pumping