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Detailed travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Detailed Travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Larry
2006-05-27 03:23:16

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what I did.
Queenstown is nice, but is crowded, and totally tourism-based. Someone
made the crack that the entire town is owned by the Japanese. Well, I don't
know about it being owned by the Japanese, but it certainly is THE major
tourist area of the region, and there were enough tourists around (Japanese
and non-Japanese alike) to make you wonder if anyone actually lives there.
Just about everything in town is designed to take money from you, and there
are plenty of ways to have it done.
The town itself is pleasant, albeit nothing special, with the main
attraction in Queenstown being adventure. If you want to go bungee jumping
(available both from a bridge, or from a flying helicopter), skydiving,
jet-boating, white-water rafting, parapenting (a mix between a parachute and
a hang-glider), or parachuting, Queenstown has it -- with just about every
business in Queenstown having a tour-booking office to book it for you.
The first thing I did upon arriving was take the aeiral tram up to the
top of the local mountain for the view. This is also the spot from which
the parapenting takes off, and of course, there was yet another tour booking
desk there at the top. I inquired about parapenting, and booked myself on
one for 1:00pm (at NZ$110). I then went back down to have a look around
Queenstown, parking the car on one of the main streets.
In Queenstown (and other parts of New Zealand as well), they have
interesting parking meters. Instead of having a meter for each space, they
simply paint the spaces with a number. Then, there's one box that handles
up to four parking spaces -- you press a button corresponding to what space
you've parked in (1, 2, 3, or 4) and put your coins in. An LCD display
shows you the time remaining, and at any time, you can go up to the box,
press your space number, and see how much ...

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