After a heavy night drinking Gina and I didn't get up until midday. We left the hostel and walked to the start of the gondola. We get 50% off this with our Explore New Zealand cards so we got a return ticket that included the buffet lunch with it as well. We travelled up on the gondola. It's so high and you can see the whole of Queenstown. The views are spectacular. We went to the restaurant for the buffet lunch. There was a wide range of choice here and it was r...

This morning I met Andrew down at reception of the hostel at 9.30am to walk down to the main town pier in the centre of Queenstown. We are doing the Kawarau jet boat ride together. The Kawarau jet boat leaves every hour and we were booked on the 10am ride but it needed more than 2 people to do it so were told to come back at 11am and see if more people had booked at this time. Andrew and I went to get breakfast in a cafe and then went back to the main town pier f...

After a heavy night with everyone last night we didn't really get up until midday as we all were very hungover. Well worth it though. It was such a great night especially as it was our last night out with everyone together on the Kiwi Experience. Gina and I have met loads of really nice people over the last month and its going to be really sad to say goodbye to everyone when we go our separate ways after Queenstown. The Kiwi Experience is definitely the best way ...

Today we left the hostel at 9am to head to Queenstown. Before we left Wanaka we went to Puzzling World. Gina and I got this free with our Explore New Zealand cards. Entry is normally $12.00. There are loads of puzzles to try and solve and we tried to conquer the maze and illusion house. Puzzling World opened its gates in 1973 with the world's first wooden maze. Over time, a 'Puzzling Centre' was developed for visitors to try their skill in solving a range of puzz...