Well Queenstown does live up to it's hype as a party town, but it is quite a classy town, not as dirty, or Blackpool like as I had imagined. The things you can do here are endless...Bunjee, sky-dive, hang-glide, Jet Boats, Snow-board, cannon swings (Don't ask)....you name it, you can do it here!!! Not good for tight arse backpackers.... In the end, we bottled out of the life threatening (or so we thought) and did 3 more days snow boarding at Coronet Peak. Apart from the 2nd day, when Lorraine got clever and boarded near the edge of the un-fenced mountain, only to fall, grab the only pole sticking out at the edge of the mountain, and had to be rescued by an instructer!!! Who's poor pupils, looked petrified..... If I had of seen her, it
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