Queenstown Begins

Trip Start Nov 18, 2008
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Trip End Dec 12, 2008


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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Queenstown is the adventure sport capital of NZ.  With skydiving, bungee jumping, parasailing, rafting, canyoning, river boarding, etc. available you can spend days here testng your nerve and living on adrenaline.  It also has great nightlife, wine tasting, day trips to Milford Sound and access to fishing & hunting so it will be my base for the next week.  FYI, if you're REALLY into the Lord of the Rings, Queenstown is also home to the "One tour to rule them all" which hits many of the filming locations.  Just to start, here are some pictures from the top of the gondola overlooking the town.

 
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I started by booking my trip to Milford Sound and a rafting trip.  I'm contemplating hang gliding  also.  We'll see...

I had always planned to incorporate some fly fishing on this trip, but the cost for a half-day trip out of Queenstown is $400NZD with a two person minimum.  For me alone, it's about $600 NZD, which with two actual hours of fishing, works out to be about $150USD per hour to fish.  This is more than the daily price for full service float trips in the US.  These prices don't always include equipment either.  Are they crazy? C'mon guys, how much work is it to drive the tourist to the river?
Where I stayed
Millenium
(Queenstown hotels)
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