Anyway, watched a couple of people fling themselves off (obviously not horizontally as shown, stupid PC won't let me rotate...) before we continued onto Queenstown proper.
Monday, 12 March 2007
Queenstown!!!
I have arrived in Queenstown. The hub of all things expensive, the action capital of New Zealand.
Driving from Wanaka to Queenstown, we stopped at the Kawarau River Bungy Center - the first official bungy jumping center. The jump was "only" 43m high, over the Shotover river. Didn't look that high, then again - I wasn't jumping! Still debating this, its on the 101 thing to do list... but I'm just not that into flinging myself off a ledge at the price of 70 quid/minute. And its not even as if you actually FLY... :)
When we arrived we were told the next few days were going to be continuous rain, so I headed up the gondola pretty quickly to go do the luge. Its basically "rodeln" - taking a little three wheeled cart and using gravity to race down tracks on the mountain. I went round a bend a little too fast at one point and ended up getting "air" and balancing precariously on 2 wheels, great fun - especially if you don't brake!

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