On Sunday we walked from our hotel round the lagoon to the Macau Tower.
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| Macau Tower from our hotel |
The Macau Tower is apparently modeled on Auckland's sky tower. Just a little bigger.
From the observation deck we could enjoy spectatular views across Macau, the harbour, Taipa Island and the neighboring mainland coastline.
Macau Tower is also home to the worlds highest commercial bungee jump, which is run by AJ Hackett, the NZ bungee pioneers. Many years ago Rika and I did their bungee jump from the Shotover Bridge at Queenstown.
The height is 233m or about 61 floors! Every 15 min or so we could watch someone jumping off the platform and falling down towards the plaza below.
Hannah surprised me by asking to do a 'sky-jump'. A sky-jump is like a controlled bungee-jump - not free-fall and not face-down, but still looks pretty scary.
We hadn't suggested the possibility of doing a jump. But Hannah seemed pretty confident so I 'sold' it to her for 50 'smily tokens' (that is a serious amount of good behavior at home).
Hannah says she wanted to do it because she has a dream of being able to fly.
After being safely harnessed-up and clipped-in, she calmly jumped off the platform by herself on the count of three.
After she first jumped she swang to the side and was scared she would hit her head.
But then she says she felt like she was really flying, and the breeze was so nice!
She wasn't scared to be so high. I think we were more worried than she was!
The descent lasted about 25 seconds (compared with about 5 seconds for a bungee jump)
When she got to the bottom she showed no signs of nervousness.
She seemed pretty proud of herself. I certainly was.
Hannahs comment: "mummy was crazy and was scared of heights even though Hannah is not".
Video: Hannah's sky-jump (2min - may take time to load)
Video: from Hannah's arm-camera (2min - may take time to load)
Video: the short version (30s)
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| Long way down |
From the observation deck we could enjoy spectatular views across Macau, the harbour, Taipa Island and the neighboring mainland coastline.
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| Barra hill from Macau Tower |
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| Macau from the Tower |
Macau Tower is also home to the worlds highest commercial bungee jump, which is run by AJ Hackett, the NZ bungee pioneers. Many years ago Rika and I did their bungee jump from the Shotover Bridge at Queenstown.
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| Tampa Island from Macau Tower |
The height is 233m or about 61 floors! Every 15 min or so we could watch someone jumping off the platform and falling down towards the plaza below.
Hannah surprised me by asking to do a 'sky-jump'. A sky-jump is like a controlled bungee-jump - not free-fall and not face-down, but still looks pretty scary.
We hadn't suggested the possibility of doing a jump. But Hannah seemed pretty confident so I 'sold' it to her for 50 'smily tokens' (that is a serious amount of good behavior at home).
Hannah says she wanted to do it because she has a dream of being able to fly.
After being safely harnessed-up and clipped-in, she calmly jumped off the platform by herself on the count of three.
After she first jumped she swang to the side and was scared she would hit her head.
But then she says she felt like she was really flying, and the breeze was so nice!
She wasn't scared to be so high. I think we were more worried than she was!
The descent lasted about 25 seconds (compared with about 5 seconds for a bungee jump)
When she got to the bottom she showed no signs of nervousness.
She seemed pretty proud of herself. I certainly was.
Hannahs comment: "mummy was crazy and was scared of heights even though Hannah is not".
Video: Hannah's sky-jump (2min - may take time to load)
Video: from Hannah's arm-camera (2min - may take time to load)
Video: the short version (30s)
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