If I would be interested in mad adrenalin-junkie kinds of things this would be my dream city. You have the opportunity for bungy-jumping, jetboating, skydiving and so on.
While I´m not into that kind of stuff, this city still has some things that make it stand out for me. The landscape it is located in looks absolutely awesome. You have everything here from a lake up to hills and mountains.
While I´m not into that kind of stuff, this city still has some things that make it stand out for me. The landscape it is located in looks absolutely awesome. You have everything here from a lake up to hills and mountains.
The local icons are Fergburger (much better than McDumb or BurgerShrink) and the World Bar, where cocktails are served in Teapots.
I couldn´t longer resist and took a LOTR tour in the vicinity of Queenstown. It was probably one of the better things I´ve done in NZ. I couldn´t connect the places we visited with film locations (of course the guide had the movie stills to prove that this actually were filming locations), but the tour would have been worth taking even if I wouldn´t have known any of the films. You may have a guess at the scenes by looking at the pictures. Besides LOTR, there were scenes from Narnia and Wolverine shot here, as well as many commercials.
Near Queenstown lies Arrowtown, an old goldmining place that has been restaurated to make it appealing to tourists. It´s really nice there and you can actually try to wash your own gold out of the river. The museum is stunning, considering that it´s located in that small a town. They even have archeological sites, digging up and rebuilding the old huts the miners were living in.
Stunning landscape as usual! the city looked quite normal and not particularly impressive though.
ReplyDeleteyes i see the perfect connection of LOTR in the 7th and 8th pics.
Cocktails from teapots. that's pretty weird. new and interesting, but weird :)
Now, the challenge is to name the exact scene that corresponds to each picture.
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