During the planning of my New Zealand trip, I had pencilled in a skydive because thats what you do in NZ isn't it - "extreme" activities? Taupo was one of the places that had been highly recommended for this owing to its quite breathtaking scenery for the freefall. As it was also one of the first places I was to be visiting (as I was going North to South) I swallowed my fear of heights and went for it! Taupo is known as the skydiving captial of the world with over 30000 people hurling themselves out of planes every year here! Becuase of this, you are spoilt for choice with a number of companies offering skydiving packages. I opted for Skydive ...  Read the complete review

The next installment of my adrenaline activities! While in New Zealand, I really wanted to do a sky dive (surprising after all, this was after I had thrown myself off a bridge tied only to an elastic band - see my previous review). Here, unlike home in Belfast, you would be jumping out over beautiful scenary in great weather and all would be well with the world. So when I was in Lake Taupo which is up kind of in the middle of the North Island I deceided that I would do. Also, having researched sky diving in New Zealand, I discovered that this was the cheapest place in the country to do it. The price for a tandem skydive is now $339 to jump from 15,000 feet ...  Read the complete review