Okay. I promised an update, then I completely forgot about it...

When I was in New Zealand, I did enjoy quite a few adventure activities, though they weren't necessarily scary.
First of all, going on the trip itself: first road trip ever, in a large vehicle and with only one driver, me (my boyfriend doesn't drive). I had no experience with large vehicles AND could not drive a manual car - I took some lessons before the trip, but I was scared to no end about driving in NZ. So I guess that's an adventure. :) It was really scary when we first got the vehicle (large campervan), but I got used to it very fast. :) We also took it on a ferry, and driving a car into the ferry was quite something... ;)

So here's what we did in terms of adventure activities:
- black water rafting (you float through a cave on an inner tube, with just a small headlight)
- zorbing, which is a crazy/weird/innovative Kiwi activity, where you roll down a hill in a huge plastic sphere
- walked around geothermally active areas, where the Earth's surface is very very thin, and while we weren't worried, there were "DANGER" signs everywhere
- trip to an active volcano-island (White Island)
- swimming with seals, swimming with dolphins and whale watching (all separately)
- walk on a glacier
- lots of small and large swingbridges, and I went on a flying fox over a 110 metre long swingbridge
- and lots of other fun, but probably not so adventurous things :)

That's all I can remember at the moment... :)

no bungy jumping!?!?! :p

looks like fun. i haven't been black water rafting, but went white water rafting in NZ and Bali. scary stuff!

i have seen the zorbing on a travel show - that looks insane!

No, no bungy, that's not for me. :) I wanted to go on a hot air balloon trip, or sky diving, but it was too expensive. :(

I've gone white water rafting too, in Canada.

Zorbing looks insane? :lol: It isn't, really. It probably looks crazier and more adventurous than it actually is. Though maybe it depends on which zorbing you do... there is wet zorbing (just you and a bucket of water inside), and you slide all around the zorb... and there is dry zorbing, where you're harnessed inside the zorb, no water. I'd imagine that dry is a bit crazier, since you actually end up going round and round... I didn't want to get wet, so I wanted to do dry, but they weren't running it because of weather conditions, so I had to settle for wet. I got soaked, but it was SO MUCH FUN!!! I want to do it again and again, every day. Excellent de-stressor for me. :)