Blogs from Queenstown, Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 2

Geo: -45.0311, 168.663 I woke up early so I did not have to queue for shower, my room in Haka lodge was nice with free wifi but my room was on top of the kitchen /lounge with the kitchen open all hours so the noise of people cooking and the smells even at 3 am, kept me awake. The bathroom was very nice but being next to Lounge/ kitchen, it was occupied most of the time and I had to use one on the other section, the staff at the reception were friendly and helpful. Queenstown in the Southern Island of the country is very touristy on the banks of Lake Wakatipu, nestled with snow-capped mountains of the Southern Alps and the rolling farmland with sheep, deer and dairy farms.... read more

Geo: -45.0311, 168.663Day 11 - Queenstown to WanakaGiven the fact that the Haast Pass was still not open and bad weather was expected on the West Coast for the weekend we decided to blow Queenstown and spend the day in Wanaka at the junction of State Highway 6 and 8. One highway will take us to the West Coast the other to Lake Tekapo and up the centre of the Canterbury Region to our destination of Hanmer Springs.There were to ways we could reach Wanaka, a windy trek over the infamous Crown Ranges and a flatter route through Cromwell and the Gibson Valley. With Debi very nervous about high windy roads we took the route through the Gibson Valley home to many fine wineries. Temped to stop for a tipple we kept driving as we would ... read more

Hi everyone, after a few days im getting ready to back my bags and move on, went out to Bannockburn, if William Wallace had seen this bannockburn scottish history would have been alot different, so on the ride i stopped at roaring meg (pics attached) the weather and the scenery at just wonderful, today im off to Glenorchy with the homemade camcorder mount for the bike, Glenorchy is where a lot of the films Lord of the rings was shot, i believe it is stunning. Ta ta for now ps i did the nevis bungy aswell 134 metre leap, and i must confess i was that scared a little bit of wee came out the end of my willy... read more

Bei gutem Wetter war für heute der Sprung in die Tiefe eingeplant. Zwei (wer, wird nicht verraten) träumten deshalb Nachts von starken Schneeschauern. Zunächst sah es auch sehr gut für die Beiden. Nachts hat es angefangen zu schneien und stark geweht. Wir fuhren direkt zur Kawarau Bridge um uns dort nochmals auf den heutigen Tag einzustimmen. Nach kurzer Bedenkzeit haben Jürgen und Bernd den höchsten Bungee Sprung Neuseelands (134 m !!!) gebucht. Als Combo-Paket wurde gleich noch der höchste Swing (überdimensionale Schiffschaukel über den Canyon) mitgebucht. Die Temperaturen um den Gefrierpunkt waren nicht gerade einladend. Mit dem Shuttle-Bus ging's dann zur Nevis-Schlucht, wo der ganze Wahnsinn stattfinden sollte. Nach dem eingeschirren wurden wir mit einer Gondel bis zur Mitte der Schlucht befördert. Der Blick in die Tiefe verdeutlichte uns nochmals den Wahnsinn! Bei guter Musik w ... read more

Geo: -45.0311, 168.663Today we decided to drive south for a bit as we didn't have anything else to do. Good thing we did because we came across a ton of sheep moving up the road. They were much more orderly than the cows that were on the road and moved pretty quick. Very cute! Stopped at a little town that has a steam engine, but it wasn't running. We came back to Queenstown to do some shopping and have lunch. The big place to go here is Fergberger and so that's where we went. It was delicious! The burgers were huge and I could only eat half. I had a regular burger with brie cheese and Renee had the same, only with blue cheese. Amazing! It had been closed for some renovations and just reopened on ... read more