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Published: April 17th 2008
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Wanaka, starts with a 'W' and ends with 'anaka', I don't know what's special about the place really
Went for walk up to a mountain about 1500 meters high, next to the village, and it was 2 hours constantly uphill and just got worse and worse. I think many people regret going there while walking up.
Milford Sound & Queenstown, the adrenalin city number 1 !
You can do all kinds of adrenaline pumping activities here, e.g. skydiving, bungy, canyon swing, fly-by-wire, river rafting, jet boating (incl. canyons), luge (similar to gocarting downhill), river sledging and some other stuff I don't remember.
First I started slow, by taking a day trip to the Milford Sound which is a fjord like the ones in Norway. Pretty and post card perfect, yet not so exciting except for when the boat cruise went under a waterfall 😊
Next day was adrenaline time !
I choose to do the Nevis Highwire Bungy, which is a 134 meter bungy jump ! The jump platform was hung up high in the middle of a canyon with a small river below, which had far to little water to soften any fall. I got onto the small
cart which hung in the wires and was winched to the platform in midair. There they strapped the harness onto my legs and told me to wave to the camera and say my goodbyes. Once I was taking my baby steps, while chained to my feet I started to hesitate for the first time. I was about to jump out and it was a looooooooong way down there!
But then the countdown started. 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... JUMP! And jump I did !
When I fell down I realised that I was falling and falling long and fast and the butterflies in my belly were trying to burst out.
I don't remember exactly what happened, but I think I was just trying to breathe on my way down and once the cord started to slow me down and then pull me up I started to scream of excitement. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW !!!!!!!!!
I was laughing and excited and it was an amazing 😊 I had a smile on my face afterwards that I believe is similar to my after-sex-smile :P
Oh yeah 😊 I can do that again, hehe.
After that I just relaxed for a while and remembered the
few moments of the bungy for the rest of the day.
Dunedin, scottish for Edinborough
Did the Cadbury Chocolate Factory tour and got to taste some samples and buy some in the factory shop. They also showed us a chocolate fountain, which in fact was 1000 kg of liquid chocolate coming down 20 meters in a tower and the experience was very loud and the chocolate was splatting abit as well 😊
Lake Tekapo, glacier lake with view of NZ's highest mountain
Known for clear night sky which I experienced for an hour with many layers of clothing and lying in my sleeping bag on the beach of the lake 😊
Christchurch
Arrived in time for sunday market which was small and pleasant and since the sun was out it was nice and warm to stroll around the town. Nice museums and huge botanical garden for a city with just 300 000 people.
The free bus really fitted the saying, "You get what you pay for", since it went fewer times then advertised and when it came it was full so it didn't even pick up people 😞 Hmm, similar in a way to the swedish free
Roys peak is to the left
View outside my hostel in Wanaka health care, long waiting lines and once you get in, you don't get the treatment you want.
Kaikoura, sea creature paradise
Went along the beach of the peninsula and saw a hundred fur seals and sometimes got some angry growls when I came too close the resting seals. Amazingly I saw a lonely yellow eyed penguin 😊 The first one I have seen in the wild !
Next day I went on a dolphin swim tour and it was a huge number of dolphins swimming and jumping and they came as close as half a meter when I snorkeled.
Day after that I went whale watching, but the whales weren't as abundant or active as the dolphins, heh. I saw two sperm whales and they only came to the surface to breath for 10 minutes before diving down to the depths again in their hunt for the giant octopus and other creatures. Their backs were huge though and I couldn't even see the whole whale. After the whales, the boat went to the dolphins so got to do a dolphin watch as well and even if I had seen them the day before it was great to see them
NZ road block
The sheep that is again.
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Micke Wikström
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Cool pictures!
Cool pictures! Keep it up bro!