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| Bloukranz Bungee |
Nearly 600 km east of Cape Town is the Tsitzikama national park and
the bridge over the Bloukranz pass.
The bridge is more than 500 metres long and 220 metres above the
bottom of the pass.
The bungee jump from just beneath the road on the supporting arch is
with its 216 metres therefore the biggest Bungee jump in the world.
On Friday 30/3 Nicole and I went to checkout the scene from where
Jesper jumped exactly 2 years earlier.
I decided to also make the jump and after having paid the ZAR 580.00,
Both Nicole and I were fitted with a harness and taken on a tiny foot
bridge the 260 metres to the centre of the arch.
The music was pumping and first a girl called Tracy was hooked up and
jumped. When she was back up, it was my turn.
The staff was joking away and doing all sorts of bloke things, and I
thouggt to myself, surely they could concentrate, whilst they were
connecting me to the "elastic band".
Anyways, after having been checked they asked me to step forward to
the edge and put my toes over the edge, hmmm.
After a countdown from 5, I kicked off. That VERY second when my feet
lost the connection, I thought to myself - what have I done...
Whilst accelerating to 120 kilometres an hour I got to admit that I
screamed a bit uncontrolled...
When the cable was fully expanded and I could enjoy the upside-down
view of the valley and the sea in the background, I shouted Yahoo and
waited to be lifted back up on the bridge again.
I was very happy to see Nicole again.
