Thursday, December 6, 2012

Life and death of romance: Queenstown ultimate temptation (Photos)

The depth of the momentThe depth of the moment

A bridge across the ice bridge, a line in the ankle on the rope, a short stay, a person's past and present...... Romance is so in a few seconds, is played most incisive, let a person forget urban world, like a thoroughly to remould oneself fully enjoy the pleasure of.

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Here is the New Zealand queenstown.

Queenstown, New Zealand's South Island, is a beautiful town which is surrounded by south the Alps. Ten thousand years ago, here was glaciers covered with a world of waters, now has become a holiday leisure tourism paradise.

Speaking of Queenstown, have to say is bungee jumping, because this is the world's bungee jumping carry forward.

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A rite of passage for actually bungee originated from the South Pacific island of Vanuatu, hundreds of years ago, Vanuatu men must withstand the test of aloft hanging jump, can be in adulthood, they used rattan, tied his legs, jump down from 35 meters high tower, a sudden stop in the ground a few inches, then the village people of all ages and both sexes around him now singing, now dancing, celebrating his success through the test of adulthood.

In 1986, new Zealander Alenjohn Hackett (AJHackett) invented the first root bungee cord from the Eiffel Tower in Paris and jumped, the world began to really focus on this adventure. In 1988, Hackett and friend Henry von Asch (Henryvan Asch) founded the world's first bungee company, and the world's first profitable bungee platform located in the picturesque Queenstown Carvalho labor bridge.

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