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Queenstown Slideshow
Queenstown
Travel Blogs from Queenstown, New Zealand
Queenstown
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Queenstown in our entry from Kaikoura, New Zealand entitled 'The Last of the Cliff Climbing Penguins!'. Cheers, K & ...
A day out to remember why we live here!
This is a top pick! ... 's and Alpaca's which we did not expect to see until we got to Peru - but there they were grazing in the mountains in New Zealand!! They were really cute, one came right up to the camera! We saw lots of goats (including one which put it's front ...
SKYDIVING IN QUEENSTOWN!! ARE YOU NUTS?
This is a top pick! ... to do it. I said I always wanted to try but I didn’t really think I could do it. So when we arrived in Queenstown, we booked Sky Diving for the next morning at 10:30am. After we had booked it, I was so nervous, I could barely ...
Keeping the adrenaline levels high
This is a top pick! ... The next day I celebrated my escape by throwing myself out of an aeroplane at 15,000 feet over Wanaka. I am now in Queenstown, having just returned from a couple of days spent in the Fijordland area, including a cruise on the stunning Milford Sound. ...
Doing the Moke
This is a top pick! ... out to be quite a colourful change. I was very impressed with Moke Lake. Considering it's only twenty-five minutes away from Queenstown along the Glenorchy road it makes for a perfect getaway at only a moments notice. It's right out of the way of ...
Customer Service
This is a top pick! ... of the lake and I really want to venture over in a kayak for the hell of it. It would be great to look back and look up and see Queenstown and Ben Lomond from there. If you stand still and look at it for long enough it winks at you. Adventure ...
Bungeeeee
This is a top pick! ... running out of gas along the way) and decided we should find a place to stay first and ended up just a bit outside of Queenstown. We ate some lunch, showered and headed back into town to look into our bungy/swing options. We ended up booking with the AJ ...
The Supersonic Chicken
This is a top pick! When I cast my mind back over the many months that precede us and sift loosely among the abundant adventure-packed times that New Zealand has provided so far, it really is surprising just how many firsts have been enjoyed here: scuba diving, bungy ...
More penguins and stuff
This is a top pick! ... to go to Milford Sound - a fjord a little south from here which is supposed to be one of the must see sights of New Zealand. Unfortunately the road is closed though as there's been so much snow. It's stopped raining now so they're probably flying but I ...
Almost a Week Of Work - Thud back to Reality!!
This is a top pick! ... foodcentre and like oldies we went home early at 2.30am. What a Week this one has been! This week we started our new jobs here in Queenstown which has been interesting and challenging, we both seem to be doing fine, but as we are new and things here ...
A Town Fit For The Queen
This is a top pick! ... up at possibly the swishest campsite we have been on. Next door were a lovely couple from Sweden who were also cycling in New Zealand. They were very much on a different trip having taken 2 months to ride from Christchurch (it has taken us 1 ...
The Battle of the Brown and White Towel
This is a top pick! ... two thick tyre tracks on the road instead of a bloody mess. Thinking about it, the level of road kill here in New Zealand is shocking. I wasn't even halfway through my shift the other night and I'd already swerved round three freshly crunched beauties, ...
Men are from Mars...
This is a top pick! ... with Dean, standing in the Bay of Islands looking out across the ocean, as its giant outline dominated the horizon. Spectacular! Queenstown has been dead the last few nights. October, apparently, is the quiet period. Work-wise it's been better and ...
Grand
This is a top pick! ... again. Apart from having grown up, he's also developed a deeper, more 'American' dutch acc-shent. Yesh. On the subject of new arrivals, today was the day we welcomed our new housemate 'Matt' into our twisted fold. Much like my own initiation at ...
Adrenacity
This is a top pick! ... going on a trip I would have to go with them and show them what a pro I am. The mental contradiction lasts long after you've done it, it seems. If you ever go to New Zealand, and if only go to one place, make it Queenstown. Please, you owe it to ...
Smothered Chicken
This is a top pick! ... long before the pilot took his seat. I boarded the plane just before 7pm on Monday evening, knackered. I arrived in Auckland, New Zealand somewhere around 5am Wednesday morning. I then spent the best part of four to five hours sitting around like a ...
134m long rubber band
This is a top pick! Blurb, video and photos to follow of Waynes first and last bungee jump. 134m free fall from a suspended cable car over the Nevis river ...
Tattoo, skydive, tattoo, skydive... SKYDIVE!!!!
This is a top pick! ... stick a needle through my tongue? Either way I have always said that if I was to get one done, I would wait until I came to New Zealand. At least if I got a Maori tattoo it would mean something, it would have a story associated to it - unlike the many ...
A True Sunday
This is a top pick! ... at the cinema again. This time we watched 'Tracker'. It looked good with Ray Winstone trekking around the New Zealand wilderness in search of an escaped murderer. Unfortunately, there was a serious lack of chemistry between old Ray and ...
Queenstown
This is a top pick! Last days in NZ!! Did some camping in town here. Weather left a lot to be desired but did manage to meet some really cool folks at the campground and another couple in the bar next to Minus 5. As you might have guessed it is basically a walk in ...
That Old Chestnut
This is a top pick! Well I'm back in the land of the limp: wounded again, same foot. This time, I think it's to do with work and this time I think it's serious. At the end of every shift, I've been coming away with a limp. By the end of my last shift on Friday I could ...
The Adventure Continues..
This is a top pick! ... . As a result and following a little negotiation, I walked away with a 'Bungy DVD' containing 'all four!' of my bungy jumps in New Zealand to date - a real treat. They have good DVD burning facilities here in Queenstown so I'll be able to make a copy of ...
A Different Breed
This is a top pick! ... I followed while Shelley tied up 'loose ends'. I've never seen anything quite like it. It was as if the whole population of Queenstown and the two pissheads in front of me were part of a huge cast of actors. The whole surreal performance just kind of ...
The Creative Gene
This is a top pick! ... and accommodation in preparation for the ski season. Some people say that by late May there won't be a sniff of accommodation available in Queenstown, it'll be madness. Madness it may be but the atmosphere will be amazing. I can't wait. It'll be great ...
When a camera just doesn't do justice
This is a top pick! ... all of you, just so you don't hate me too much, let me tell you a bit about my two pet peeves of travel in New Zealand: sandflies and snorers. The two annoyances are actually quite similar in a lot of ways. Both have a bad habit of keeping you awake ...
Bungles voyage in the Land of the Long White Cloud
This is a top pick! ... over wild sea lions and a wee penguin. Then down to the Catlins, the wild and battered South Coast of New Zealand. Great cliff faces and crashing seas, lovely beaches and fortified fossil forests. Rare Hector dolphins performing acrobatics and surfing ...
A Birthday with a Bang!
This is a top pick! ... continued to move slowly over. When the fire sirens started churning the whole feel of the place became cold and dark. The fire sirens in New Zealand are exact replicas of the old WWII sirens used in the war. So yeah it was pretty scary. I just sat up ...