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we spent over 12 days in queenstown because we loved it so much! we were there for about a week after coming down from wanaka and we spent our days looking around the snowboarding shops, walking around the harbour and finding ice hockey (steve was very pleased!) there was a real buzz around town as it was getting into winter and everyone was excited about the ski slopes opening so everyone was buying all their gear in the shops. there were lots of backpackers there and one night we met up with two friends from home that we randomly bumped into in the street! in the middle of our time in queentown was when we rented out the car and went of to milford sound for a few days, and when we got back it was offically winter! you could tell, it was so cold and frosty and every morning all the cars and houses would be iced up. the mountains in the backdrop of the town were all covered in snow and looked beautiful!
on our last day in queenstown we went up the gondola (london eye capsules going up a hill like a chairlift!) the views from the top were amazing and up there you could do the 800m luge track which was really steep and you went down in sledges with wheels. it was a concrete track and awesome fun! we went on it three times down two differnt tracks. later we had a coffee in the panoramic glass walled cafe and then at 6pm we went to a haka performance. we were greeted by mauori people in traditional clothing and they treated us to lots of songs and dances. the mens dances (im sure they were war chants not dances!) were pretty scary, you wouldnt want to mess with them! then it was a bit of crowd participation and i got up with the ladies and did traditional dance with balls on strings (very difficult) and steve learnt the haka! he wasnt quite as scary as the traditional guys but he was pretty good! then after it was a ride back down the gondala and queenstown looked great all lit up. the perfect end to our stay in queentown!
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