On a Tuesday Elizabeth and I headed to the South island of New Zealand. We had planned on flying into Queenstown (the adventure-seeker's town of NZ) and then picking up our camper van that we would drive and live in for the next few days.
The weather was bad, however, so we ended up getting to Queenstown later than planned and missing our van pickup. We ended up walking around the town that night and eating at Fergburger, a delicious place that served these massive hamburgers. We also stayed that night in the Black Sheep hostel, it was Elizabeth's first one ever!
At the hostel..
That next morning we had an appointment at the Nevis Bungy at 8:00AM so we headed down to our meeting place pretty early. It was our first time seeing Queenstown in the daylight, there were snow-covered mountains all around us and it was unbelievable!
Finally, after a 45 minute drive up a mountain, we arrived at our jump-site and did the bungy, it was the 3rd longest in the world (3 times as high as the one I did last time in NZ).
It was freezing when we got up there and the wind was blowing like crazy. Although tensions were high for a little while, we both got through it successfully and loved it! This jump has a free fall of 6 and 1/2 seconds, so it was much smoother than the short one I did before. Elizabeth also took the jump like a champ and did a massive dive, it was very impressive (especially since her 1st one was so high)!
This is a picture from Queenstown when we got back from the Bungy, we liked the yellow tree!
After the jump we got things sorted out with Juicy Rentals, picked up our camper van, and headed on up the road.
New Zealanders call them "campa vans", so this is our awesome campa van and home for those next few days!
We switched off driving. It was a little difficult at first to get used to driving on the left side of the road, also the steering wheel is on the right side of the car.. but we got used to it eventually!
Our first stop was Lake Wanaka.
We had no time schedule to speak of, so we just drove and stopped whenever we felt the need. This was one random spot where we stopped and took a little walk to this waterfall, some Asians took our picture here. After we were done, Eliz and I just started running back up the path to get in our van, mainly because it was getting so cold.. and these Asians just started running right along with us, like they were racing us. It was so funny.
Finally, when the sun started to set, we ended up in a little town called Haast where we decided to stay for the night. Just to give you an idea of the size of Haast, it made Clinton look like a big city!
We parked in a lot with this sign for the night! There was another camper parked there too, though, so we figured it would be ok.
The next morning we woke up really early, at 6:00 am, and started heading down the road again. We drove while the sun rose, along the coast and it was beautiful!
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