On a road trip through South Africa: Oribi Gorge

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In this episode, S'bu Skosana and Ziphorah Masethe visit Oribi Gorge, where they experience its 165-meter wild swing. This means reaching a speed of 120 km/h in 2.3 seconds. Are you ready to join?

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00:00 (screaming)

00:02 - Join Kool Kaa Chick and myself, Spooda Paloni,

00:04 on an epic road trip as we travel across Mzansi

00:07 from city driving to dune bashing, laughter to screams,

00:11 we explore the very best of what our beautiful country

00:14 has to offer.

00:15 (upbeat music)

00:17 - Just sit there, look pretty like you always do

00:19 next to me.

00:21 - No trip to KZN is complete without a visit to Ete Gwini.

00:24 Now our tight schedule meant we didn't get a chance

00:27 to dip our toes in the warm waters

00:29 of the Indian Ocean,

00:30 but we did manage to take an epic selfie.

00:33 (laughing)

00:35 We headed down to the South Coast

00:38 for our next port of call, the Wild Coast Sun.

00:41 Now, normally you'd come here for sunny skies

00:44 and golden beaches, but unfortunately on this trip,

00:47 the weather wasn't playing nice and fair to ish.

00:50 Then again, there's no better time

00:51 for a little pampering session.

00:53 If having your feet touched by strangers isn't your thing,

00:58 there's plenty of other activities to do,

01:00 even in gloomy weather.

01:01 In keeping with the spirit of adventure

01:03 and trying out new things,

01:04 it was time to jump in the saddle

01:06 and do an impression of a Setswana cowboy.

01:09 (upbeat music)

01:12 After all that relaxing,

01:19 it was time to get our pulses racing again

01:21 and the next stop on our road trip

01:23 was going to do just that.

01:26 - How's it going? Welcome to Wild 5 Adventures

01:28 here at the Orubi Gorge.

01:29 Are you guys ready for action?

01:30 You've come to the home of the world's highest gorge swing.

01:32 It's a 165 meter jump here at Wild 5 Adventures,

01:35 the wild swing.

01:36 You're going to experience 75 meters of free fall

01:38 before you go into the swing,

01:39 dropping a hundred meters in total,

01:40 getting to 120 kilometers an hour in 2.3 seconds.

01:44 All right, so you're going to experience about 2.2 G-forces.

01:47 And then after the jump,

01:48 we're going to be pulling you up alongside Lear's waterfall

01:51 and you're going to come up that mountain

01:52 right alongside the falls.

01:53 With a little bit of wind,

01:54 you might even end up getting pulled through the falls.

01:55 So one of the only places in the world

01:57 that you're going to experience that

01:58 and the ultimate rush guys.

01:59 Are you guys ready for this?

02:01 Yeah, half and half.

02:03 I remember fear is temporary, regret is forever.

02:05 So let's launch ourselves off that edge.

02:07 Despite all the safety gear,

02:13 we were still a little nervous.

02:15 You can tell because Zipporah

02:16 was making small talk with the instructor.

02:18 - My name is Zipporah.

02:20 So how many times have you done this?

02:22 - More than a thousand.

02:23 - More than a thousand?

02:25 And every time you do it, are you scared

02:26 or is it just like you're used to it?

02:28 - No, it's fine.

02:29 - It's been good!

02:33 Goodbye my friend.

02:35 - The jokes quickly stop when you find yourself

02:40 on the edge of a 300 meter deep gorge.

02:44 Then things get serious pretty quickly.

02:46 Will I go through with it or not?

02:51 - No, no, no, no!

02:54 - Wait, wait, wait, wait!

02:56 - Oh my God!

03:14 Oh my God!

03:15 - At this moment,

03:22 I'm reevaluating my life.

03:25 - I don't think Zipporah is going to do it.

03:27 I mean, it took me two tries.

03:30 I almost honestly tapped out.

03:32 Looks like I'm about to catch a shower.

03:39 - Three, two, one, go!

03:45 - Three, two, one, go!

03:47 (screaming)

03:49 - Wow, we liked that jump so much,

03:59 we couldn't resist watching it

04:01 from every camera angle we had rolling.

04:03 - Oh my gosh, it's so hard!

04:14 - Oh my God!

04:15 - We're in it!

04:21 - I'm alive!

04:27 I can't even put it to words,

04:30 I thought I was dying.

04:32 And then it was beautiful,

04:34 and then I wanted to cry,

04:35 and then it's all my work.

04:37 But I do it again.

04:39 - So tell me Z,

04:40 would you go back and do the swing again?

04:44 - I'd go back and do the swing again.

04:46 No questions asked.

04:47 I think I'd be just as terrified,

04:49 but I'd definitely do it again,

04:50 it was that thrilling.

04:51 - My eyes were closed the whole time.

04:53 - It taught me two things,

04:55 that number one,

04:56 I'm not as much as an adrenaline junkie as I thought,

04:59 and number two,

05:00 you are an adventure junkie!

05:03 - Surprised myself,

05:05 I surprised myself all the way through.

05:07 I mean, that was thrilling,

05:08 when you think you're going to die,

05:09 and then you open your eyes,

05:11 and it's like a beautiful jungle around you,

05:12 it's waterfall everywhere,

05:13 it's just like,

05:14 (gasps)

05:15 I don't think,

05:16 how did we even do that?

05:17 We got,

05:18 - Look what we have to show for it!

05:20 Woo-hoo!

05:21 (Zachary singing)

05:23 - Listen, certified adventure junkies,

05:25 that's how we are.

05:26 And we've been having fun, man.

05:28 - And the adventure's not over,

05:29 because we are driving to our next adventure spot.

05:32 - Keep rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling,

05:35 rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling.

05:37 - The third leg of our journey would be the longest.

05:40 Over the next 11 hours,

05:42 we would leave behind the rolling hills

05:43 and rural villages of KwaZulu-Natal,

05:45 and enter into the Eastern Cape,

05:48 that is home to the Addo Elephant Park,

05:50 the third largest national park in South Africa,

05:52 and home to 550 elephants.

05:55 - Why am I so excited to see an elephant?

05:59 - What is it doing?

06:00 - I don't know, but it's beautiful!

06:03 (dramatic music)

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