Zorbing involves rolling down a hill within a large inflatable plastic ball. (See here for more info)
We took the "hydro" option - which means that there's 10cm of warm water inside the ball with you (cold water in summer, warm in winter) - it sloshes around you giving a kind of "inside a washing machine" effect. Zorbing was a lot of fun, but during one attempt with both of us inside the same ball, we crashed into each other mid-way down the hill - Lesley ended up with a bloody nose and Rick ended up with very sore ribs!
Needless to say, tandem sky-diving from 15,000ft was probably the most exciting thing either of us have ever done. It was a really clear day, we were jumping over beautiful Lake Taupo (which is the apparently the size of Singapore). Also, the mountains next to the lake were used in Lord of the Rings (Mount Doom, if you know about that type of thing).
It's really quite difficult to describe just how amazing it was, so we'll let the following videos-clips and the photos do the telling.
(the videos clips may take several minutes to load, so please be patient, they are worth a giggle!)
To see a video of Rick sky-diving, click here
To see a video of Lesley sky-diving, click here
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