Queenstown is a well known town for adventures. Taxi, our handsome tour guide, gave us a binder filled with adventure companies’ brochure, so we could book our tours for our staying in Queenstown. We were all excited about our next destination.After the last few days of sightseeings, we started our day with adventures before getting to Queenstown. First stop, we had two options - jump off a plane or wander in Puzzling World. Debbie and I chose the Puzzling World to challenge ourselves in a big maze finding our ways to four towers, had fun and got dizzy in the optical illusion section. There was a room that showed us a technique that Lord of the Ring used. For few dollars, we had fun for close to 2 hours time. After the Puzzling World, we got picked up and met up with the other group that chose sky diving. We were in time to see some of them did their landing. Sky diving is on my want-to-do list, but maybe I will do that in Vancouver.We had our little stop in a famers’ market with lots of fresh veggies & fruits. The market had fresh made fruit ice-cream shop as well. It was highly recommended by Taxi. I had two kinds of berries and hoky poky ice-cream mixed. It was yummy.
One last stop before Queenstown was the high light of my day. I did my first bungy jump - the first commerical bungy jump in the world, Kawarau. It was not my first choice of bungy jump location as I wish to jump the highest at Nevis, but it would take my entire next day from doing other activities. It was an easy choice to make that I went jumped at Kawarau with the people in the tour cheered for me. I was scared before I jumped and while I jumped. I closed my eyes, but soon realized that I had to see to experience this jump that I would probably not going to do again in this life time. I was shocked as I dipped into the water, since I was asked to have my hands touched the water but not my head. Almost half of my body went in. There was a mixed of emotion when I got pulled up from the water, but mainly confused as “I didn’t ask to have my head gone into the water”, “oh, do I still have my top?” and “what did exactly just happen?”. It was an expensive experience for about 5 minutes from strapping up the legs, jumping, unstrapping the legs and to walking on the ground again. Of course, they did make good money off from me buying the DVD and the pictures. I heard that the jump is free if you will jump naked. Tempting … but no thank you.
Finally, we got to Queenstown while it was still bright out. Debbie & I walked around town from the lake shore to a mountain top to enjoy the view. Making dinner at the hostel was like in a war zone. It wasn’t a single person task as you needed a person to guard the stove and clean pot & pan we found, and while the other one could prep other things and guard the clean dishes. Our dinner for that night was fresh pasta with tomato sauce and pan fried veggie with garlic. As usual, we finished our night with our lady earl tea. We headed to bed early for our canyoning day and ensure that we would have a good big breakfast.
That is sooooo brave! I’d never have the courage to do it… !