Top 10 Christmas & January Sales – Best-Sellers

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A guide to the top best selling vouchers this Christmas & January.

With 9 of 10 still available – why not grab a highly-rated bargain!

Now that the January Sales are coming down and Christmas is but a distant memory – we can take a quick look back at which experiences have been the most popular amongst the masses, and look forward to Valentine’s Day with an idea of which will be the romantic gifts of choice.

Top 10 Best Sellers

It wasn’t just the experiences with huge discounts that have sold the most, as only 4 of the top 10 had been reduced in price – showing that it is quality and not quantity that makes the perfect gift…
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The Sky is the Limit! – The Origin of Skydiving

Aaron    Experience Guides     free fall, freefall, skydiving, Tandem Skydive

As far as adrenaline pumping experiences go, there really is very little that can even come close to skydiving. Rightly billed as a ‘once in a lifetime’ experience, Skydiving is, in essence; crazy!

Terminal Velocity: 120mph
Average Height: 13,000ft

History

In order to understand the appeal of skydiving, you have to question how the very first one was ever completed. The brilliance, balls and baffling level of bravado shown by Parisian André-Jacques Garnerin in 1797 when he successfully ‘parachuted’ from a hot air balloon instigated the evolution of one of today’s most popular adrenaline sports.

Literally using himself as a guinea pig, he cut his parachute free from the hot air balloon at a height of 3,000ft and descended back to Earth uninjured. Unfortunately for André-Jacques, this happened during the Napoleonic Wars – and waiting for him back on home soil were some bemused and pretty angry British Troops, who hastily handed him over to the Austrians to be held prisoner in Hungary for 3 years.

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