| Queenstown Posted Tuesday, 19 June 2007 | ||
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| The Lonely Planet slates Queenstown for being touristy but when you’ve driven around New Zealand for weeks and only encountered about 10 people, a few tourists make a nice change. Plus Queenstown is in the most incredibly beautiful setting; you could stick Benidorm amongst these mountains and a few Lonely Planet-type whinges about tacky tourism still wouldn’t have put us off. We did a load of hikes in the area but eventually the lure of the self-styled ‘adventure capital of New Zealand’ dragged us in and we went jetboating through a crazy canyon. Skydiving was cancelled the whole time we were there (still too windy), and we stayed on an extra day to try and get the first day of the ski season but despite bone-chilling sub-zero temperatures, the snow just wasn’t deep enough. Instead we spent lots of time trekking up hills then relaxing in bars dreamily staring at snow capped mountains to get over the exertion. | ||
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