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The next morning we stopped off at puzzle world and tried to complete the maze, but ended up getting lost and gave up and went to the illusion rooms, not the best experience when you’re hung over!! The leaning room almost made me sick! We got back on the bus and made our way into Queenstown, the adrenaline capital of New Zealand!! Our first stop in Queenstown was the Kawarau bridge, which was the first ever commercial bungy site in the world, we got a tour showing us the secrets of bungy and even though I’d already done a jump and wasn’t jumping the K bridge it made me more nervous!! Quite a few people jumped the K bridge including Chris and Steve but I was saving myself, and my money, for the Nevis, the worlds highest bungy!!! We were dropped off at our hostel in Queenstown and went out to hire a car with the 3 Kates! (3 people called Kate who were on our kiwi bus we’d got good friends with!) It took us 5 minutes to sort out hiring a car so the only reasonable thing to do was have a quiet drink in the bar! Although that one quiet drink turned into 5 hours of drinking before we realised we were quite hungry, we went and got some dinner before heading back to the bar for another before getting ready for the evening. Queenstown is seen as the last place on your kiwi tour so when you arrive everyone on the bus goes out for a big piss-up that evening to celebrate as most people fly out of Queenstown to other countries and everyone stays there for different lengths of time! We all went out drinking with our bus and our driver, who got us plenty free shots throughout the night! We didn’t make it into bed until 7am having started drinking at 3pm the previous day!! The next day was spent planning our camping trip to Milford Sound, one of the most beautiful places in New Zealand!! We got 2 tents and a stove along with other supplies (5 crates of beer!) The next morning we set off or Milford Sound arriving in the late afternoon, we booked ourselves on a tour of the fjord the next day and also on a kayaking trip for the day after, we found a campsite, which was an old 1930’s campsite that had been kept in its original working order ever since, no electricity, no phone, no nothing basically! The water for the showers was heated by logs!! Was quite an experience! We pitched our tents and started up a campfire for the evening whilst cooking our bbq! We spent the night drinking round the campfire looking up at the stars, which were out of this world, so much brighter than anything I’ve ever seen at home! One of the Kate’s managed to lock a set of keys in the boot of the car!! Not good! It was too dark to sort anything out there and then so we decided to leave it till the morning! Morning came, after a sleepless night with 5 people sleeping in a 3-man tent! And we went to sort out calling out the AA, the woman that owned the campsite seemed shocked when we told her none of us knew how to break into a car?!! Apparently it’s a life skill that all kiwi’s master?!!! So Bob managed to break into the car and retrieve the keys!! Thank god – would’ve cost us at least $400 to call out the AA, on top of any charges for getting the keys out!! We went on the cruise, which I didn’t find too inspiring but was still quite good! We went back to the campsite for an early night after dinner as we were up at 5 for kayaking the next day!! The next day arrived and we all got up and went for the kayaking trip, this was so amazing, one of the best things! We got to spend 5 hours out on the water kayaking along the fjord passing some waterfalls, sea lions and some of the most beautiful scenery ever seen!! Was well worth getting up at the break of dawn for!! We went back to the campsite and packed away the tents before driving back to Queenstown! Back in Queenstown we went out for another night out as the people who were stranded in Nelson like us but didn’t jump ahead finally caught up with us! We spent a further 5 nights in Queenstown with the highlight definitely being the Nevis bungy, was possibly the scariest thing I’ve ever done but definitely one of the best – a 134 meter jump out of a cable car suspended above a river!!! Such an adrenaline rush and the feeling of freefalling for 8 seconds was out of this world!!
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