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Queenstown Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Queenstown, New Zealand
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 ...
Fun Times in Queenstown
This is a top pick! ... we headed out along the road to Glenorchy, another spectacular drive. We enjoyed our lunch at the lakeside before heading back to Queenstown for our big night out, the end of our 2 week road trip before heading back to Dunedin. We started getting ready ...
From Bungy Jumping to Milford Sound
This is a top pick! ... host Jo, who lives about 20 minutes out of Dunedin in Purakanui. A university city of Scottish heritage, Dunedin, New Zealand's oldest city, possesses a unique combination of cultural riches, fine architecture, and world-famous wildlife reserves on the ...
Elizabeth Rafter
This is a top pick! Queenstown was mostly a wash out, so not much to say... Our resident dare devil Liz did take the opportunity to conquer Shotover Creek River Rafting and mysteriously remained dry...! ;) - JJ ...
After the relatively easy going trip down ...
This is a top pick! After the relatively easy going trip down the West Coast, we have hit the adrenalin capital of the world - Queenstown. The centre is a haven of shops and offices all advertising rafting, jet boating, bungy jumping, mountain biking, tramping, skydiving, ...
Adrenalin Madness in Middle Earth
This is a top pick! ... seem to be getting even worse. If there is anywhere better to be on this earth if you are a complete lunatic, than Queenstown; then someone better tell me where it is. Stunt jets, choppers, skydiving planes and parascenders vy for space in the sky above ...
We're alive!!!! we made it through and what ...
This is a top pick! ... still on and then it was time to go. I was stupidly wearing my England rugby shirt in preparation for the game against New Zealand on Saturday / Sunday and was promptly told that I would therefore get an extra special dunking. We boarded the bus to ...
Queenstown, centre for activities
This is a top pick! A couple of film clips to show fun things around Queenstown, and yes, I was actually mad enough to go on the boat! One for Railway Ian here as well. (Anyone got Fyvie's email address for me to send him some ...
Destination Poudreuse
This is a top pick! ... to get herself branded - yes you heard me correctly. Apparently branding is illegal in Australia (I wonder why??) but not in New Zealand. There's a shop I saw in Wellington last year advertising "Tattoos and Flesh cutting" which made me laugh when I saw ...
Campers vs. Hostel
This is a top pick! Queenstown was just a little stopover since its a must for all tourists...and it started good when we tried to shake it up a little and stay on a hostel parking lot while using the backpacker's amenities instead of sharing a 10sqm area with 6 other ...
EXTREME sports...
This is a top pick! This place is ridiculous. I actually typed an email to a friend and realized I summed it up pretty well: I am having an amazing time! Today for example, I went with 3 people in the moring, tied a harness around my waist, backed up about 5 feet and ...
Bungeeeeee!!!
This is a top pick! ... Craig ;-p). Yes, we're total woosies. But then we've never been adrenaline junkies. That's not how we get our kicks. Fortunately Queenstown has much more to offer. We loved it! It remember us of ski holidays because of its distinctive ski-town feel: based ...
Out on the town in Queenstown
This is a top pick! ... been pretty cold all day and Andrea had gotten her shopping bug out of her. We went around to pretty much every shop that Queenstown had and Andrea bought herself a couple neat shirts but overall this town is what I would consider Aspen to be, a resort ...
Queenstown
This is a top pick! ... hotel right next to Christchurch Airport ready for our early morning flight to Sydney the next morning. And there you have New Zealand. A stunning country with very friendly people. Thank you to our friends John and Katherine who chauffeured us about ...
Hanging around again
This is a top pick! Blurb, video and photos to follow of Pidgeandpies first proper flight in the big blue ...
Queenstown Rotary Meeting
This is a top pick! ... speech a Rotarian was called up to do the one minute thank you speech and then they sung the national anthem of New Zealand (Frank should try that one) and rang the bell to end the meeting. Afterwards, everyone stayed around continuing conversation for a ...
Our favorite town ..........
This is a top pick! Blurb & Video to follow, when we return to Blighty and proper ...
From Fox Glacier to Queenstown
This is a top pick! ... lunch. This was enough time to visit the Pancake Rocks. The Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki, are a unique natural attraction on New Zealand's South Island West Coast. Layers of water sculpted limestone, resembling stacks of pancakes, form a fantastic tableau - ...
Many bridges to cross
This is a top pick! ... over it (was dodgy) going down to blue pools of completely clear water, breathetaking if you could get across the bridge !! Queenstown is the centre for adventure activity, we settled for some adventure and some sightseeing as we are getting on a ...
On the way to Queenstown
This is a top pick! ... and found out we have wi-fi internet (yay!!), laundry (bigger YAY!), and are about a 5 minute walk from downtown. Yes, Queenstown appears to have a real downtown with shops, restaurants and all kinds of goodies that actually might stay open past 5pm! ...
Anzac Day
This is a top pick! ... asking them to count down before I jumped - but they said that was for bungy-losers :) So they finally did a typical New Zealand countdown - Lamb, Mutton, SHEEP!!! And then I jumped backwards! The rush was much better than expected - falling backwards, ...
On to Queenstown for a few days
This is a top pick! ... to Queenstown. We arrive in Queenstown about lunchtime and we're in for a bit of a shock after the many quiet towns of New Zealand. There are people everywhere – on the waterfront, in the streets and shops are open. Queenstown is the ...
The THRILLOGY!
This is a top pick! ... - so of course we asked - only to learn that they had been on a Kiwi bus (a backpacker/tourist bus system all throughout New Zealand) which had gone over the edge of one of the roads near the Franz Joseph Glacier (where we had just left)! Apparently it ...
An Upgrade!!!!!
This is a top pick! ... was something that needed to be fixed so told us to go off for a while and when we come back another van would be ready. Queenstown was all hilly and a beautiful little town, had the exact same feel as a ski resort, had a walk round looked in a few of ...
South Island New Zealand
This is a top pick! Hello everyone, Thought i would do a quick entry not so much to write lots of stuff but so i can upload a few photos. I have now nearly completed my NZ experience and since i last wrote I have been bungee jumping, gone to see a super 12 rugby match, ...
It's all down to the the weather!!
This is a top pick! ... sodding river flood we decided to go on the "Skyline Gondola".The Gondola cableway whisks you smoothly up 450 metres as Queenstown drops away below. Breathtaking views from the top extend almost full circle, from Coronet Peak around to The Remarkables and ...
back to the city
River boarding with Mad Dog river company. class, like boogie boarding but on rapids. me and rich got totally wiped out. very hard, just had to let the river take us. also got pulled on back of the wave runner, did a kloof(11ish), slide on boards and a ...
