Queenstown Travel Blogs - Page 10

Flying in to queenstown this morning was amazing, even though it was pretty cloudy we could see a lot! amazing mountains, just like out of tolkiens maps. so cool!as soon as we'd dumped our stuff at our hostel, the black sheep, we set out to see the town. started with some really nice thai for lunch…

Just a few photos from my 2004 trip to New Zealand (Just a few photos for now - I'll add more later, and possibly write something about the trip)

Thursday July 31st 2008 - Last day of the program. The group is rendezvousing at the clock tower in downtown Qtown in an hour. I'm sitting at a local indian joint waiting for my lunch special of paneer makhani and naan bread...mmm. Spent the last morning here in a fabulous manner. We jumped off one…

I was up early today to go on a 3 hour horse trek around filming locations used in Lord of the Rings.  There were 4 others in my group - one Brit, 2 American girls and a middle aged cattle farmer from Australia.  I was allocated Brian as my steed - a big bay cob.  We set off, but on …

The following day we drove to Queenstown, stopping off at Puzzle World on the way. It had a 3D maze, which we decided to do. It was supposed to take about an hour to find four corners and the way out. Finding the corners wasnt too bad, we did that in record time - finding our way out was a differen…

Day 5 - 4th September, 2007 Last day In Queenstown today and hence the last day of snowboarding. Me, still not being able to fully put body weight on my left leg, thought F**K IT! and decided to venture out to the snow fields and give it a go. TODAY WAS AWESOME! overnight there was 25cm of power …

On the Saturday we left for Queenstown, as we had booked to do the Kawarau Bridge Bungee (43m) and the Shotover Jet.Going over the Crown Range, passing by beautiful scenery, and going past Mount Cardrona (a popular ski area), we got from Wanaka to Queenstown in about 45 minutes. We had booked the b…

New years day!!  Didn't want to worry about getting up tooooooo early. I have made a booking for a bungy adventure. I call it that because the only one doing the Bungy is Andrew but then there are 3 of us going as spectators. The first adventure starts at 8.30 but I have booked for 10am. To ge…

After a whirl wind week in QT, it was time to start making our way back to Christchurch for the flight home, but instead of travelling the same route back as we choose inbound, we decided to think more creatively.  Originally my plans were to leave on the 22nd, leaving only one day to get back…

There were not many people left in Queenstown when we got back, but a few of us went out the evening we got back. it was a fairly uneventful night except there was what appeared to be a tramp on the dance floor and he smelt really bad, a bit like bonfire, the tunes werent great either, but it was a…