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This is the place!!!!!!
We have sold up and moved out here, well maybe not yet but soon. Its got everything, fantastic scenery, wonderful restaurants, hot during the summer and snow in the winter. Every possible thrill thing you could think off and...........they speak English.
Seriously this is a fantastic place, we have been here 2 days and felt so at home. Our hotel overlooks the main lake and the centre of the town is about 200 yards away.
I went out for a run on the first night and it was probably the best run I have ever been on in my life, it went along the lake then went up into the hills and ended back down by the lake but on a private cove, I was out nearly an hour and felt I could run forever. We went our for a meal at night at sat at the bar chatting to the staff for nearly an hour it was so relaxing, then we went to a bar and danced to and watched a live band till early in the morning.
We got up today and walked into town to do some shopping and decided to take the gondola cable car up the mountain, when we got up there we saw the tandem paragliding down the mountain into town. They had vacancies and went for it..............wow. I had a very smooth trip down and loved it. Carols found some different currents and had an amazing trip even the guide who took her town said he really for excited about it! Unfortunately he wasn't able to take any photos of their trip as he felt he had to keep his hands 2 I took of Carol taking off and landing but believe me we both did it.
We then went back up the hill and did 2 luge trips down the mountain which was good fun.
We finally took the gondola down the mountain in time to change and go off for our afternoon trip to white water rafting.
Ok, if they had told us the journey we would have to take to get to the rafting we never would have done it. We were driven in coaches for 45 mins along cliff edges with sheer drops to reach the start of the rafting experience on the shotover river. It was really scary and not nice but finally we got there and started our trip down the river. We were dressed head to foot in wet suits etc, plus helmets and other safety gear, 7 of us in a boat plus an instructor, ours was called Jesse from New Zealand only 22 but his parents own a rafting company and it has been in his family for generations he was really good, clearly the best of the 8 boats on the trip.
The trip took over 4 hours and we went through 7-8 rapids plus a long tunnel, we had a fantastic time and only wish we had been through more rapids as those we did were amazing, we only nearly tipped over once but again our guide helped us (after hitting me on the backside to remind me left from right!!) to right the boat and sale through it.
This is the place!!!!!!
We have sold up and moved out here, well maybe not yet but soon. Its got everything, fantastic scenery, wonderful restaurants, hot during the summer and snow in the winter. Every possible thrill thing you could think off and...........they speak English.
Seriously this is a fantastic place, we have been here 2 days and felt so at home. Our hotel overlooks the main lake and the centre of the town is about 200 yards away.
I went out for a run on the first night and it was probably the best run I have ever been on in my life, it went along the lake then went up into the hills and ended back down by the lake but on a private cove, I was out nearly an hour and felt I could run forever. We went our for a meal at night at sat at the bar chatting to the staff for nearly an hour it was so relaxing, then we went to a bar and danced to and watched a live band till early in the morning.
We got up today and walked into town to do some shopping and decided to take the gondola cable car up the mountain, when we got up there we saw the tandem paragliding down the mountain into town. They had vacancies and went for it..............wow. I had a very smooth trip down and loved it. Carols found some different currents and had an amazing trip even the guide who took her town said he really for excited about it! Unfortunately he wasn't able to take any photos of their trip as he felt he had to keep his hands 2 I took of Carol taking off and landing but believe me we both did it.
We then went back up the hill and did 2 luge trips down the mountain which was good fun.
We finally took the gondola down the mountain in time to change and go off for our afternoon trip to white water rafting.
Ok, if they had told us the journey we would have to take to get to the rafting we never would have done it. We were driven in coaches for 45 mins along cliff edges with sheer drops to reach the start of the rafting experience on the shotover river. It was really scary and not nice but finally we got there and started our trip down the river. We were dressed head to foot in wet suits etc, plus helmets and other safety gear, 7 of us in a boat plus an instructor, ours was called Jesse from New Zealand only 22 but his parents own a rafting company and it has been in his family for generations he was really good, clearly the best of the 8 boats on the trip.
The trip took over 4 hours and we went through 7-8 rapids plus a long tunnel, we had a fantastic time and only wish we had been through more rapids as those we did were amazing, we only nearly tipped over once but again our guide helped us (after hitting me on the backside to remind me left from right!!) to right the boat and sale through it.
We were unable to take a camera down the rapids so have paid for photos, we will download them to the photo album as soon as they xome available.
We drove back into Queenstown and then went out for another meal. Again the meal was amazing we decided after the day we had, had that we go for an experience. One restaurant did a 5 coursr meal of the chefs choice along with appropiate wines and we went for it. The vegitarianism went out of the window as we had pork and beef but it was a great meal, now sitting with indigestion so it won't convert me back to meat but it was a great experience to match the rest of this fantastic day.
We drove back into Queenstown and then went out for another meal. Again the meal was amazing we decided after the day we had, had that we go for an experience. One restaurant did a 5 coursr meal of the chefs choice along with appropiate wines and we went for it. The vegitarianism went out of the window as we had pork and beef but it was a great meal, now sitting with indigestion so it won't convert me back to meat but it was a great experience to match the rest of this fantastic day.
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