Never, ever in my life did I think I would actually bungy jump, let alone do it for the first time off of the world's highest one. Bloukrans bungy jump is in Tsitsikamma, which is about a 7 hour drive from Cape Town. My host mother's daughter and her husband drove the other volunteers and I, since they had already done it and insisted that we do it too.
On one side of the bridge is mountains, on the other side you can see the ocean. The guys working there are among the most positive, happy people I have ever seen. They take you in groups of around seven and blast dance music while they prepare people to jump one by one. After securing your feet, they make you hop to the edge, where they tell you to put your hands out and head up. (They had to say "head up" two times before I actually stopped looking down.) To reassure you of course, they ask for any last words. I think mine were somewhere along the lines of "Oh my goshhhh...." Then they count, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, BUNGYYY!!!! and you're just supposed to jump off the edge of a bridge. I knew that if I hesitated, it wouldn't be good, so I actually jumped when they said to. About 2 seconds in you have an OMG I'M FALLING THIS IS THE END OF MY LIFE moment, then the rope catches you two seconds later and all the blood rushes to your head. It's pretty ridiculous. Watching the DVD of it is possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen, although I didn't buy it because it doesn't play in US DVD players. But seriously, google it or find someone jumping it on youtube because it's unbelievable.
I'm just glad I'm still alive.
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