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Hello everyone, another little update for you! NZ is absolutely awesome- love it! landed in christchurch a couple of weeks ago and worked out it would be cheaper to hire a car than it would be for 3 of us to each buy a bus pass- the result was a 13 seater minbus affectionately named "van diesel" which we pimped by taking out the back seats and laying some foam down for a bed! haven't slept in a hostel since! anyway, christchurch was nothing special- quite nice, very english- having a pint on the side of the River Avon for example! After stocking up on goodness for the van i.e. a cool box for beer and 3 fishing chairs, we cruised on down to Mt Cook. Quality lakes on the way- the water is stupidly blue, something to do with minerals apparently but the photos don't do them justice.

Orc Land

Nick Comer
2006-04-09 14:45:18

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Hello everyone, another little update for you! NZ is absolutely awesome- love it! landed in christchurch a couple of weeks ago and worked out it would be cheaper to hire a car than it would be for 3 of us to each buy a bus pass- the result was a 13 seater minbus affectionately named "van diesel" which we pimped by taking out the back seats and laying some foam down for a bed! haven't slept in a hostel since! anyway, christchurch was nothing special- quite nice, very english- having a pint on the side of the River Avon for example! After stocking up on goodness for the van i.e. a cool box for beer and 3 fishing chairs, we cruised on down to Mt Cook. Quality lakes on the way- the water is stupidly blue, something to do with minerals apparently but the photos don't do them justice. After refusing to pay the extortionate $6 fee to camp in a site we just parked up on the side of the road with lorries hurtling past- pretty stupid with hindsight i guess! did a little walk up towards the mountain which was pretty cool. Only stayed here a night before moving on down to Queenstown as the Gods did not smile on us with the weather. It is a really nice town, right by a lake with mountains as backdrop and more activities than you could shake a stick at. Plenty of bars too with happy hours. On the way we stopped off at a bungy site to have a look and see what me and joe were letting ourselves in for (Arnie plucked out the bad knee excuse!) , looked quite tame actually, nice little bridge and a river below. So we booked our one thinking it would be a bit similar- turns out it was over 3 times as high (134m) and off a cable car! It was brilliant though- quite fun winding each other up on the way to it, but it wasn't as scary as it should have been really- quite a chilled feeling freefalling- not the petrified state we thought we were gonna be! Other days were spent on a luge, which was funny stuff- got some air time on a few humps! ...

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