Next day I went and walked the Queenstown/Glenorchy end of the Routeburn Track up to the Routeburn Falls which was a great fun 4.5 hour hike. It was also a lovely drive out to it (pictured below) Had to finish in the dark though because beforehand i went looking for a wee place called 'Paradise' which was on the map and signposted on the road but it wasnt there! Haha! I even went an extra mile and still didnt find it. I though this was quite interesting and got all philosophical about it!...Maybe people are always searching for Paradise where it doesn't exist. Hmmm....


I went on to Queenstown and did the Nevis Bungy jump which was a good laugh. 134 metress (440 feet) out of a cable car arrangement down a big mountain valley towards the river. Next day I went skiing at a nearby resort called Cardrona. All in all it was pretty poor....very limited skiing, any recent snow was very windswept making for a particularly good icy fall, the base of snow wasn't even a good covering, and of the 3 lifts one closed! Honestly...and they call it 'world-class skiing!' I think not. But maybe i'm spoiled with what i'm used to. Plus it was school holiday time so there were loads of precocious brats pushing for those 2 lifts. But i struggled on and did my best! Haha! Oh, and last complaint....there is no door-step skiing...it was a 1.5 hour bus journey EACH WAY to get to the slopes. Not fun.