Saturday, December 25, 2010

Adventure Zone!!!

We took an Air New Zealand flight from Rotorua in the North Island to Queenstown in the South Island. Our flight had to take a detour to Christchurch because of bad bad landing conditions in Queenstown. While waiting in the lounge at Christchurch for our flight to Queenstown I was able to witness a very caring gesture of love. A middle aged women who was travelling for business at the day of her anniversary was waiting with us for flight to take off in the Christchurch airport lounge. Suddenly she had a card delivered to her by one of the airport officials and while she was opening to see who it was from her husband was standing right there next to her a bunch of flowers in his hands ready to take her in his arms and give her a kiss. The woman's happiness knew no bounds and she had tears in her eyes only to be wiped by her husband. It was miraculous...and magical to witness love in that form... :)
Anyway getting back to my travels;we finally landed in the most adventurous place in the world - Queenstown.
Queenstown truly is an adventurer's paradise with activities ranging from shotover jet to skydiving.
But even apart from the adventure activities Queenstown as well the neighbouring Arrowtown is truly a page torn out of a fairy tale. Its fabulous. The hillstation is built and developed around a huge lake which provides water to the town. New Zealand is the only country in the world where there is no water tax!!!
If anybody would ask me about visiting New Zealand, my only advise to them would be to visit only Queenstown and Christchurch.
When I visited New Zealand around two and a half years ago the concept of an ice bar was a novel idea. (now of course there are many around the world) and i truly loved the experience at Minus Five.(the name of the bar). I won't waste too much space in writing about it since many of must have experienced and also for those who haven't i dont want to spoil the novelty of the experience.
I know you guys anxiously want to know about the adventure but i'm gonna leave that for my next write-up so till then, Adios!!!

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