Following on from the bungy escapade came our next adrenaline busting feat of craziness, the "Canyon Swing" - the largest swing in the world and this time both of us got involved. So let's start with the basic stats - it's 109m high, you experience 60m of freefall and then fall into a smooth 200m arc at 150kph (93mph). For the record, it was a great deal scarier than the bungy jumps that both of us have done, probably because it's so much higher but also because the jump masters are really cruel up on the platform. We'd both fancied this for a while, it looked great fun, everyone we met who'd done it raved about it, the idea that you fell into such a huge arc above the enormous Shotover Canyon and as rumour had
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