blog post #5

Why do you think New Pretty Town advocates bungee jumping?
The only rule in New Pretty Town is to have fun, and bungee jumping is one of the best ways to go along with that rule.
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Find information about the history of bungee jumping and post it along with the url adress.

Bungee has quite an old origin. The idea of this way of jumping comes from the ancient ritual "Gkol" performed in the Pentecost Island in the Pacific Archipelago of Vanuatu. The legend says that in the village Bunlap a man called Tamalie had a quarrel with his wife and she ran away and climbed a Banyan tree where she wrapped her ankles with liana vines. When Tamalie came up to her, the woman jumped from the tree and so did her husband not knowing what had his wife done. So he died but the woman survived. The men of Bunlap were very impressed by this performance and they began to practise such jumps in case they got in similar situation. This practice transformed into a ritual for rich yam harvest and also for proving manhood.

url: http://library.thinkquest.org/C0123122/historybungee.htm