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My name is TJ, and I'm from Sri Lanka, and I'm 24 years old. I've been on
the South Island Lick Tour, which is a seven-day tour. My tour manager was
Burto.
Actually, this trip was a valued trip and the best experience to me was
because of Burto, because he was the man who convinced me to do all the
stuff which I wasn't going to do, and he wasn't just a driver, he was
actually a tour guide, and more, he was a friend as well. Yeah, good guy to
be around, yeah. I think my favorite activity was the Canyon Swing.
The canyon swing was the turning point which took all my fear out of
heights, because before the tour, I'm actually afraid of heights, so Burto
told me, "Man, just do the canyon swing. Trust me, nothing will happen to
you. And the skydiving won't be anything." I mean, it will be easy as. So,
I just took his advice and did the canyon swing, and actually the jump
twice, and it just took all my fear of heights, and I think that was my
best experience, the canyon swing. Yeah, it's very scary. You jump off and
it's actually higher than the bungy jump as well. So one, I have to do the
forward way, the other way I did the backwards.
The backwards, it was scary as [beep]. That was. And the guys who do that
also keep you and make you scared. They say, at the final, "Oh, I think the
rope is not attached," and when I freak out they just let me go, and I fall
off shouting, it was mean as. Yeah, I actually jumped off a bridge as well,
which was quite interesting, which I won't normally do in a normal
situation. Actually, Burto convinced me to do that as well. He jumped
first, and then I jumped second.
Actually, the main reason I chose Haka tours was the small group one. But
with Haka tours, it specifically says "This is aimed for small tours" so
they can give more attention to you, and that exactly happened. The tour
guide showed us many places, we'd see some secret places as well, that only
the locals know, so that was really cool. Burto, just let us have our fun,
and it was mean as yeah, to change up. I mean, to do something different, or
to get things out of your system, you know, have fun. And the second thing
is, do different things. Do things which you haven't done.
If you haven't gone on a boat or if you haven't jumped from a very scary
place or a weird place, do that [beep]. It's all good, because the tour
guide will take care of you. Because even he said in one instance, he will
take a bullet for us. So that was a really good feeling. Third one, go out
every night and have some good beers. That's about it. 20 out of ten. Yeah,
that good.