New Zealand Adventures Bungy Jumping No trip to Queenstown, New Zealand is complete without experiencing the Bungy Jump by A. J. Hackett. In their website they describe the origin of this event as follows: The Bungy Origins Bungy began with a small group of adventurous people in Vanuatu. For centuries, they would fearlessly fling themselves from huge towers with merely a few vines tied around their feet. They called it ‘land-diving’, and legend says that it started when a mistreated wife threw herself from a tall tree, saving herself with the vines while the husband fell to his death. The event was reconstructed annually, only by women. Eventually men would join in to prove their courage, and the tradition is upheld to this day. Then in t...