Queenstown Ranches - Reviews and Rates

Yesterday was amazing, despite some ups and downs!
So I decided to walk up Ben Lomand, then I decided not to, I‘m to ill, then I decided to have breakfast in a café, then I decided that I would, then I went and bought, for a excessive $5 dollars, a booklet on other more sensible walks I could do. Then I decided not to do any of them...

It definatly lived up to its name!!!!

We passed by the beautiful lakes Wanaka and Hawea and stop briefly in the
town of Wanaka for a look around before heading to Queenstown.

Just
before Queenstown we stoped off at the famous A.J. Hackett bungy site, in
the Kawarau gorge for the option of throwing yourself off a bridge

well I did it and i didn't even end up half drowned and having to be fished out !! the rafting was on the shotover river and was graded 3-4 and therefore quite serious but not as made as in taupo where people can raft a grade 5 river with a 7 m drop through rapids - I knew some people who did that and the raft tipped over. anyway after being pic...

Wow, have I been BUSY! Finally time to update my blog again. After Dunedin the four of us headed to Queenstown. Everyone was always telling me how much Queenstown reminded them of Aspen, or some other ski town in Colorado. I have to say, they were kind of right. Queenstown is a nice little town that is inland on the South Island. It is by a big ...

Jumped out of a plane today from 12,000 feet :o) More about this later! Woke up this morning just after sunrise to a rather eerie looking view over the mountains which were steeped in mist and a new covering of snow. Last nights sleep as expected was pretty poor. Think it will be the tent from now on or maybe I'll try the front seat one night to...

12th Sept Arrived in Queenstown at around 11am and settled into our campsite. That evening we met up with Stephen and Cliona from our Inca Trail for dinner in Speights Ale House and Restaurant and then we met up with Sarah's cousin Siobhan and the two girls she was travelling with Maeve and Sinead. We got lots of photos to keep Ger and Mary happ...

We Luuurrrrvvvved Queenstown, very hip!! and chilled, nice small town with some really cool shops, lots of cafes and nice streets to wander around, we headed out to Glenorchy, on the outskirts as we were told it is very pretty, which the drive to Glenorchy was stunning. We did the Routeburn Track the following day, which again was a good walk, b...

3rd time we hit Queenstown, 3rd time it's been brill sunshine ... HOW! We had to drop the car back off so we had to go back there for a couple of days; but we stayed in a different hostel, Bungi, but it was cool as it was the same chaine as the one in Franz Josef so we had our own little room, free soup and 2 for 1 drinks at one of the bars, sol...

Hi everyone We have now commenced our gypsy lifestyle having collected the Backpacker Coaster van from Christchurch. We drove to Akaroa, a very pretty little town first settled by the English and then four days later by the French, and it still retains a very French influence. It was raining when we arrived, but was sunny the next morning and we...

Ok, there has been a lot going on in the past few days. We haven't had internet for awhile now since a couple hotels haven't had it accessable, and then we have been out in the wilderness the past three days hiking the Routeburn Trail, which I will get to in a little bit. There really wasn't much going on in Christchurch. It's the second largest...