{"id":229,"date":"2010-11-20T06:21:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2012-12-15T00:19:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T06:19:07","slug":"travel-freak-skydiving-at-franz-josef-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/travel-freak-skydiving-at-franz-josef-new-zealand","title":{"rendered":"My Virgin Skydive Experience At Franz Josef, New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally, I had my first skydiving experience at Franz Josef, New Zealand. It was… an amazing amazing experience.. and one that I learn something from…lol..<\/p>\n

Quit frankly, I was so looking forward to it when I did my holiday trip down to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I actually booked my skydive package at Lake Wanaka. Upon arriving at Sky Dive Wanaka at about 1.30pm, I was told that due to the wind, the jump could not be continued. So.. I had to call them back again at 4pm to see if any jump is available at 5pm.<\/p>\n

So.. I did.. and sadly.. the wind was still too big.. and had to be canceled. They did gave me a glimpse of hope however, that I can still do my dive tomorrow at 11am. Well.. at least its not too bad. Sadly.. it rained the next day… and I couldn’t wait till later as I had to pack and head for the glaciers.<\/p>\n

So.. I canceled the skydiving package.. with much regret.<\/p>\n

Arriving at Fox Glacier<\/a>… I asked if there was any sky diving package available… but to my dismay… the weather wasn’t too good and we can’t jump due to that…<\/p>\n

Oh well… guess its just my fate that the almighty didn’t want me to do my jump. So.. the very next day… we travel down from Fox to Franz Josef. I remember it was like 5pm or so… and as chances of my skydiving experience was becoming slimmer and slimmer by the minute, we happen to walk pass a book shop that offers the skydive package !<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I only got 1 shot.. because me and my wife had to go for a heli-hike at Franz Josef Glacier the very next day at 11am. So.. I booked the dive at 4pm… hoping that everything will go well.<\/p>\n

and it did…<\/p>\n

The journey up was amazing… the views and all… no words ever can explained that. And yea… I did get a little bit of nervous as they climb higher and higher.. despite me being a “adrenaline junkie”… and as the door opened, I felt like I was almost being blown away by the wind above… then…<\/p>\n

The rest was history… I did my “virgin dive”… IT WAS AWESOME<\/strong><\/em> !<\/p>\n

I said I learned something from the start of this post… yes… I realize that I shouldn’t have went so “high” off my head… shouting “wooohoooo” through my way down… the wind speed, gushing in at 200km\/hr choked me… and when the “free fall” was done.. I actually remove the goggles.. and the wind just gush into my eyes…poor me… I was teary on my way down… haha..<\/p>\n

So.. lesson learned for my next sky dive experience.. probably at Las Vegas…<\/p>\n

For now.. here is a video to share my skydive experience over the Franz Josef Glacier… amazing amazing view… enjoy..<\/p>\n

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Finally, I had my first skydiving experience at Franz Josef, New Zealand. It was… an amazing amazing experience.. and one that I learn something from…lol.. Quit frankly, I was so looking forward to it when I did my holiday trip down to New Zealand. I actually booked my skydive package at Lake Wanaka. Upon arriving …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[54,43,52,65,64,179],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-kenji-tay","tag-life","tag-new-zealand","tag-sky-dive","tag-south-island","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}