New Zealand
Trip Start
Aug 15, 2006
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Trip End
Apr 14, 2007
Queenstown, New Zealand
Thursday, March 1, 2007
We have landed in New Zealand- whoohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's very different from Australia but just as cool, if not a bit more! We are currently traveling about the south island and getting a kiwi experience bus which takes us from place to place. It's basically full of dudes our age so its a gud laugh. The country has sooooooooo much too do (tight on the pocket) but its also got unbelievable scenery so u can enjoy shitloads for free : )
The highlight so far has been swimming with wild dolphins in a small place called Kaikoura on the east coast. The dusky dolphins travel in pods of 500- 600 and we got to jump of the boat loads of times and just swim with them. Won't even try to describe it- too gud!!!!!!!!!!!
We've been doing a rite bit of traveling and have to say out of all the countries we've been to NZ has the closest cadburys to home and it has become a part of our staple diet bigtime! but we've been doing lots of beautiful wee walks so we ain't fatties...yet!!
We also had a hard core days hiking on a glacier called Franz Josef. We got talons which are metal things that attach to your boots with spikes that help you grip the ice, and we walked through caves and up and down through hills of ice- 'sweet as!!' (as the kiwis would say)
We've now landed in Queenstown, apparently the adventure capital of the world and its not hard to fathom why- anything mental u can think of u can defo do ere!!! Skydiving, bungy jumping (though nothing compared to our 216m jump!), paragliding, whitewater rafting, jet boating... Today we got a cable car to the top of the mountain overlooking Queenstown and had the best fun ever on the luging (karting) track up there. We had 6 spins round the track but it wasn't nearly enough, we could have stayed up there all day!!!!!
Anyways gotta go. Hope u are all fighting fit! Never find til we are catching up on home soil :)
tc M & G
Comments
I am not happy
Its 4 degree celcius, raining and windy here.
None of this matters, what matters is that you gits are not stuck at work.
I've always wanted to go to New Zealand.
The karting looks class, but imagine how much craic it would be if there was no tarmac, and instead big rocks and logs, and you were on your mountain bike. What a waste of a hill!
Take it handy guys
love the pics
Hey there. NZ looks class!! That ice walking must have been amazing.
I am off on my final trip before homeward bound. Heading to Hawaii tomorrow for a week. Can't wait going to get a wee sky dive in - bricking it!!
Chat soon
Elma