NZ Day Sixteen Woke up to a beautiful sunny da, the girls left the hostel at half one and i had my Nevis bungy jump today at two which hadn't really entered my head that much as i was pre-occupied with other things for the last 3 or 4 days. So after seeing the girls off i met up with the lads at the checking in place for our bungy. After checking in and coincidently we had to be weighed and i weigh 63kg we got on the board the 4WD bus up to the bungy po...

NZ Day Fifthteen Today we got up at a ridiculously stupid time as we had to catch the bus for our scenic day out at Milford Sounds. On the way to Milford we stopped at a road layby to see where they shot the Lord of the Rings Two movie well the introductory scene of the rolling mountains which were in fact Eglington Valley. To get to Milford we had to pass through Homer Tunnel which meant a 200m descent from 1000m above sea level , prior to enterin...

NZ Day Fourteen After only 4 hours of sllep i got up wide awake still full of energy so i went into town for a bit of a walf taking in my surroundings. When i got back to the hostel for breakfast i found out that the two Steve's missed their trip to Milford Sounds because they got up late. After breakfast i went back to bed for an hour or two taking stock of last nights events before getting up and meeting the two Steve's down at the bar. Hur...

NZ Day Thirteen Today before got to Queenstown we stopped at Puzzling World which was pretty cool as the whole place was like a little theme park concentrating solely on puzzles. There was a maze and loads of optical illusion rooms there\'s one that stands out in my head and that was the room where all the iconic figures face the like of Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Mother Terresa follows you around the room as you walk. Oh yeah just remembe...

NZ Day Twelve Today as we made our way to Wanaka we stopped off early in the morning to see a really awesome reflection of MT Cook ad the Southern Alps on LAke Matheson near the town of Fox Glacier. Along the way we also stopped to see Ships Creek, Thunder Creek Falls and Blue Pools and arrived at Wanaka around twelve in the afternoon. In the evening the lads and i went to Red Rock which is a bar across the road from our hostel where we sat in fron...