Wanjiku's Take...

• Bungee jumping on Vic falls....

  Posted: March 28, 2011, 12:14 am by rebecca

  For many people, when I said I bungee jumped or wanted to, they thought, how crazy can you be? Others thought I had lost it. To some extent yes, coz I remember lacking the words when I called my mum to say I arrived safely. I could not call her before going to the Victoria Falls coz I wasnt sure I would come back safe, its always a gamble.

  Can imagine me explaining to my mum "nyuma kuruga ndaraca-ini handu maikagia mundu ta kigutha" loosely translated to mean I was at the bridge where they catapult you below. Sounds absurd considering that most of our lives are interesting enough and may not need some of the risks.

  However, I had made up my mind, if I was in Livingstone, I wanted to do the bungee and no amount of pressure would make me bark off, thats why I could not tell my mum before hand, am sure she would have talked me out of it or called me every five minutes to know if I was ok.

  Victoria Falls has 100% records, there has been no accidents but there's always a first. I must say that the guys are very good, professional and funny. You start on the slide, which is just the wire from one end to the other....its gives you a taste of what to expect.

  I was determined and there was no turning back; but the free fall feeling is something... by the time I was 110 meters below, I remember thinking, I must be crazy. By the time they throw you up and down.... you feel the stretch on the ankles.

  The funny thing was, I never asked the guys how I was supposed to come up, but I knew I had to....and I finally did.... It was all worth it!

  Was it crazy? Maybe....

  
  

• Turning side, back ways....

  Posted: March 28, 2011, 1:26 pm by rebecca

  You get to experience it all...

  
  
  

• Upward swing

  Posted: March 28, 2011, 1:25 pm by rebecca

  There is this part when they pull you up then throw you down again.... I was thinking the rope will come off... but what could I do? Just enjoy..

  
  
  

• Full stretch....

  Posted: March 28, 2011, 1:20 pm by rebecca

  Its 111 meters and you think... this is it...

  
  
  

• Admitting am crazy

  Posted: March 28, 2011, 1:17 pm by rebecca

  Its only after I saw the rocks that I thought; I am crazy. At this point, I was like oh my God, I am crazy....

  
  
  

• Its upside down

  Posted: March 28, 2011, 1:13 pm by rebecca

  You go head first... perfect upside down..

  
  
  

• Its a free fall....

  Posted: March 28, 2011, 1:11 pm by rebecca

  The free fall is something.....to experience

  
  
  

• 1..2...3...bungee

  Posted: March 28, 2011, 1:08 pm by rebecca

  There was no turning back...

  
  
  

• 1..2....3....

  Posted: March 28, 2011, 1:05 pm by rebecca

  Getting the instructions....look to the horizon and jump as far away as you can....

  
  
  

• At the start line...

  Posted: March 28, 2011, 12:37 pm by rebecca

  The guys getting me ready.....

  
  
  

• At the start line...

  Posted: March 28, 2011, 12:34 pm by rebecca

  First you have to get off the shoes.... or the jump will be very expensive...

  
  
  

• Travel Diary: Bungee jumping at Victoria Falls

  Posted: March 28, 2011, 12:28 pm by rebecca

  What do you say to someone who says they want to go bungee jumping, 111 meters below Victoria Falls bridge?

  
  
  

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