{"id":412,"date":"2011-03-24T20:44:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T02:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2011-03-24T20:44:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T02:44:57","slug":"aa-day-16-17-5-kiwi-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"AA Day 16-17.5: Kiwi anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our trip to Queenstown was gorgeous yesterday morning. Because we\u2019re a smaller bus we\u2019re able to do some of the mountain passes that the big motorcoaches can\u2019t. As a result we came down from the very top of the mountains down into the Gibson valley with a fantastic panorama laid out below us. We made a stop-off at the original home of the Bungy Jump and watched a few people take the jumps. Marco booked a big jump on the Nevis that he went and did later that afternoon. Andrea, Niall, Debbie and David all booked a fly cruise fly to the beautiful Milford sound area. I was incredibly tempted as the weather was beautiful, but it cost around $400 and that\u2019s a good portion of a round trip to Fiji or Thailand if I want to do that later. They said it was gorgeous. I\u2019ve heard the Doubtful Sound trip is as good though and that\u2019s part of our tour (though we drive there) so I won\u2019t be too regretful.<\/p>\n

Once we got into Queenstown we settled into our quite nice accommodation then went to explore the town. It\u2019s a very touristy little place, tons of people of every nationality. David pointed out that he wasn\u2019t sure if he\u2019d been served by a native Kiwi yet when we walked about this afternoon, I think he was right until we hit the supermarket. \u00a0We had a pretty questionable $3 bbq at a bar before moving to a different bar to close out the night. As part of the night\u2019s activities there was a \u201chorizontal bungy\u201d where teams of two had to get drinks and chug them… bizarre. Overall the place reminds me a bit of Whistler or the Okanagan.<\/p>\n

This morning we headed up the gondola and did 5 runs on the \u201cluge\u201d go-carty tracks. Very similar to the few that are out in the rockies if you\u2019ve ever done one. Hilarious photo to come tomorrow. Great views of Queenstown and the lake from above. So far this afternoon we\u2019ve headed over into the botanical gardens and seen their Frisbee golf course (sadly the rental place seemed to be closed) and checked out Fergburger, considered by some to be the burger in the world. I have to say it was pretty good, and any place I can get brie on my burger is pretty choice.<\/p>\n

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At the moment us boys are back in our room unwinding a bit before dinner. David and Niall are doing a canyon jet boating excursion tomorrow while I\u2019m trying to decide between a few options. Unfortunately it may rain which will limit things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our trip to Queenstown was gorgeous yesterday morning. Because we\u2019re a smaller bus we\u2019re able to do some of the mountain passes that the big motorcoaches can\u2019t. As a result we came down from the very top of the mountains down into the Gibson valley with a fantastic panorama laid out below us. We made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-antipodean-adventure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3qtCo-6E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheatingbulldogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}