Aspen on Queenstown

... Its snowing heavily leaving Milford and the coach is sliding a lot of the time but we make it out safe and sound.  We drive to Queenstown, get to the Kawarau bridge at 3.30ish and watch about 13 of the tour do a bungy, not for us.  Then we head ...

I arrived to Queenstown to discover my friend from Israel is already there. After a small meeting he went to work and we went to explore the town. We is Meital, Shani and I. We walked around enjoying the sun and the lake ...

... jewelery from old dead cow shin bones - nice , we will show you our handy work when we are home . Today we have arrived in Queenstown the home of the bungee and Andy has taken leave of his senses and booked in for tomorrow to do the highest one you can ...

... (Fjord) Sound on their list. I am lost for words. I know that is hard to believe but it is true. Queenstown itself is a cross between Aspen and Lake Tahoe on steroids. Must places to eat are FergBurger and The Botswana Butchery. To date we have ...

... Muriel's Wedding.   The next morning we got up early for the first of the two activities we had planned that day. Queenstown is known as the adventure capital of the world, and you can do almost any extreme activity you can think of there, from ...

... friends at home, went to subway and sat near a cute river in town and then caught the bus back to the hotel. (Aspen on Queenstown). Then everyone from contiki met in the lobby of the hotel to pay Saul our tour manager money for our optional activities. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... , Alexandra, Roxbury-- the main job sites in Central Otago. I applied for a change of permit in Alex before we went on to Queenstown, the Aspen of New Zealand. Queenstown may be touristy, but it has the nicest airport I've ever seen in my life, right in ...

... and stayed up late talking to a British couple who were travelling and looking for work in New Zealand. Monday, I relaxed in Queenstown having a look around the shops and lying on the lakeside beach, which, much like Wanaka, was surrounded by a ...

... not dissimilar to that of a possum caught in headlights or a sheep getting an unexpected surprise from a farmer in gum boots. Queenstown is like Aspen if it were built on the shore of a huge lake, obsessed with extreme sports, and full of Japanese ...

... . I'm a little suprised on how few trees I've seen so far on the South Island. I expected a lot more. Queenstown reminds me of like an Aspen or Lake Tahoe. It's the adventure sport capital of the world. On the drive alone we've seen bunji jumpers, ...

... for some more teapots then! I wish we had more time there but i can always go back and probably will. The best description of Queenstown is Aspen without so much snow. Anyway i have put some pictures on but i took about 50 so you ll have to look when i ...

... , I am still glad that it will soon be over.  It's raining again.  We pack up and drive towards Queenstown, the reputed adventure capital of New Zealand.  We drive along Lake Wakapitu, supposedly the longest lake in New Zealand.  ...

Sunday, November 23rd, Christchurch to Queenstown, New Zealand Got up, got ready, got on the net just to book a hotel, and were picked up by the rental car folks. We got our Toyota Camry, and thankfully it has a cassette deck so that I can use the ...

... its so like ireland here you sometimes forget your on the other side of the world. The weekend after that I went to Queenstown, the party and wintersports capital of New Zealand. I stayed with some friends I meet while travelling and kept in touch ...