Coming up trips

AJ Hackett Bungy New Zealand expects to launch its new three-person swing — the first in the South Island — at the Kawarau Bridge, near Queenstown, in September.

A steel structure the Kawarau Swing will sit on, under the viewing deck, was lifted into place last week.

When it opens, the new tourism attraction will be adapted for single, tandem or three-person rides, swinging people up to 43m high across the Kawarau River before winching them back to the platform on the southern bank of the Kawarau Gorge.