Sherwood Manor Queenstown

... vineyard in the valley just 15 minutes from town, with great view and lovely wines. We bought a couple of bottles for the road and headed for Arrowtown, a small gold mining village used in the Lord of the Rings films. It only has two main streets but is very nice and we took a walk up Tobins track which had great views of the surrounding valley. Checked out a local campsite but was a bit pricey so headed for Te Anau.<br>

... drinks and not skiing on the lit runs! Stunning views of the valley below with Queenstown lit up always made night skiing a highlight of the week. Unfortunately we had the last night ski last week as the snow is disappearing and they estimate only another 3 weeks left of the mountains being open at all. I&#8217;m trying to upload some silly skiing videos we took to this page so keep an eye out for them &#8211; it&#8217;s a shame we didn&#8217;t think to do it earlier in ...

... four days in Queenstown I figured I would wait a day and see if it had been cleared. Well, the next day I was informed that the road would not be cleared until at the soonest the day AFTER I was to leave! That was no good, so I looked into other ways of getting there. There are companies that fly there, cruise on the sound, and fly back. That option also eliminates the day long bus ride. But it is much more expensive ...

... designated bus stop in town not in the best of moods since I was slightly hungover and sad to say goodbye to Queenstown. As it was early and pouring with rain I managed to sleep a bit more on the first leg of tour until morning tea so I woke up feeling much better! We arrived at Mount Cook at lunchtime but unfortunately due to the rain and low cloud we couldnt actually see the mountain itself! We had a 2 hour stop so we visited the Edmund Hillary Alpine centre and saw a ...

... about throwing stones on one of the frozen lakes which made a really strange echoing "whopping" noise - provided hours of fun....honestly!<br><br>That night in the bar we hooked up with an Austrian girl called Karin who came walking with us the following day on the Routeburn Trail. The scenery was pretty spectacular at the best of times and the cold snap the previous night meant that there was a thick hawfrost on almost every leaf ...

... creating the glacier, which they then named "tears of the avalanche girl".<br><br>The climb was pretty hard going at first &amp; it took a while to get used to the crampons, but it was definitely a fun experience &amp; worth doing! We climbed through ice caves &amp; took some pretty cool photos. It took about 4 hours in total &amp; we were wiped out by the end of the tour, so headed over to the hot pools to relax for the evening :o)<br ...

... people chuck them selves off which <br>believe me it is very odd to say the least when people jump off they <br>seam to be falling for ages almost as if they are gonna hit the <br>ground, very scary. My turn comes around and I get called over to sit <br>in a sort of dentists chair to get strapped to the bungy cord, now the <br>nerves strike and I am prettified! I approach to the edge of the steel <br>platform that sticks over the ...

Having collected our camper van in Christchurch, basically a Toyota people carrier with its back seats removed and converted into a sleeping area, we headed south to a town called Queens town which is known as he "Adrenalin capital of the world" This is the town that lays claim to inventing the bungee and in recent years the canyon swing. Surrounded by mountains, lakes and rivers Queens town is a town with two identities ...

... not kick in till I was being tied up (with a towel and a bit of velcro, if you must know). I discussed my planned backward jump with my bungy dude. 'If this is your fist jump, I wouldn't recommend it. Some people freak out.' Too late, I explained, I had already told people I was doing it and I wasn't about to pussy out in front of the whole bus. But then, standing on the edge, facing my bungy man, not knowing what was behind me, I had a ...

... zusammen und dann um seine Beine, klettert irgendwo hoch, wo man nicht gerade gegen einen Felsen pendeln koennte, springt und schreit ein bisschen und nach 2 Sekunden flutscht man wieder hoch, sieht Sterne vor den Augen, merkt, das man immer noch ein bisschen schreit, spielt ein bisschen Luftgitarre, da man ja gefilmt wird, und geht dann mit gluecklichem Grinsen und Augen wie nach ner durchzechten Nacht zufrieden nach Hause, nachdem man seine 150 Mack ...