In July 2013 (yeah… I did a lot in 2013) I did BUNGEE JUMPING!
Valle Verzasca in Ticino, the italian speaking part of Switzerland is very famous for various reasons: well, it’s a beautiful place, and James Bond did bungee jumping from there in the movie “Goldeneye“.
It was a beautiful sunny day… so perfect to enjoy a free fall in the nothing.
I was with 3 friends: Jovana, Nadine, Alicia… the third one was the moral supporter. Nadine was super excited… until she actually saw the dam! It impressive! The road to go there has a lot of turn… suddenly, after a curve, we saw it. Wow! And we heard the scream of a person doing the jump.
Well, we arrive, we signed “yes, if something happen is my fault”, they trained us, and…. JUMP!
It’s really difficult to describe the sensations… during the first 5 seconds I wasn’t breathing. Free falling is different from the sensation you can have on a roller coaster. Launch ourself towards the nothing is unnatural I think. It’s against our survival instincts.
Then I started to scream and then to think “when the rope will ends?!”.. and boooom! First bounce back! In my case it was a big one because I’m 52kg.
And down again!
The second bounce was small… and then I stop. Head down I enjoyed the peace to be hanging by a 220m dam. I pulled me up I positioned myself in the seat positions with the harness, and I called for the recovery cable. I attached the cable and they pulled me up… also the way up was pretty relaxing.
We enjoyed the rest of the afternoon with cold beers and swimming in the cold and crystal water of a river.
I had such a burst of adrenaline… I didn’t sleep for the subsequent nights.
Once upon a journey... 