Monday, August 08, 2005
NZ 4: Queenstown - Wanaka - Franz Josef Glacier - Punakaiki - Nelson - Wellington
I know I know, I'm a lazy bastard. Well... Not really!! I just couldn't find a cheap internet place since Queenstown, in other words, I'm simply a tight arse! bite me.
Hee hee, anyway... let's continue my journey at Queenstown. This place is a pretty kool ski town for city people, but we decided to do the skiing in Wanaka for cheaper deal.
Next morning, a random English dude Tom ran into our dorm just wanna put his melting butter in our fridge, our curiosity kicked off the conversation. (quite easy to friends here, huh?) He was actually 80% looks like Hayden Christensen (aka. Anakin in Star War III), pretty boy... but very tough, he did 3 different bungy in a day, mental! I might do the bungy or skydive at Taupo in the Northern Island, apparently it's the cheapest place to do all this shit. But... we'll see~
Did a crazy walk up to the Bob's Peak, where people usually spend $15 to take a cable car up instead. It was breathtaking but definitely worth it by seeing the nice view around! There, you can see heaps people doing paragliding, yet we were more attracted to the luge up there. It was quite fast and we did a luge race too, absolutely fun! WEE~~~!!!! *happy*
Me, Lena and Joe did a special extra trip while Hanna and Jon rest in the dorm. We headed to the north of Queenstown, where the place's called Glenorchy. In this little town, a hidden area named Paradise was also another stunning filming spot of Lord Of The Rings, it was a very nice place, clear river, crispy air, beautiful mountains mixed of green and white. Took so many pictures, golly that was amazing!
Went to Wanaka after we had enough in Queens of the town, grabbed our ski equipments and headed all the way up to Cardrona. My skiing's virginity was gone with Hanna and Jon. Hanna taught me how to turn, slow down and stop, practised twice in the learner ground, then we go up to the top of the mountain!! *shit my pant!*
Funny thing is my first accident was happened on the cable chair, where I tried to ski off in the middle of the seat in between of Jon and Hanna. I was tripped back down to the seat while they both ski off the left and the right way. Chair began to rise and U-turning, I was panic since it would be very embarrassing to sit by myself all the way down to the mountain, while others were looking at you on the other side. Hence, I decided to jumped off, unfortunately fell, and that's how I hurt my thumb...
That, however, didn't devastate my gut! I enjoyed skiing so much and know nothing about the pain on my thumb! (probably it was really cold too...) I ski quite fast after a few times, then Hanna and Jon took me to the next level - a new path! (intermedia level) I was just trying to keep up with them, went down to this track called Highway 89', I ski down with the speed of 100K! Didn't know how to stop so I just sat down on the snow, dragged my arse 5km far until it finally stopped! A stranger just came up with an amazing eyes saying "God you are spectecular! I've never see someone skiing that fast!" After I told him that's my first time skiing, he was even shocker as I'm still alive. Good fun. :)
Drove up to the Franz Josef Glacier the next day and found a very nice cottage, we couldn't do much since it was almost the evening. So I started to chat with some strangers, met this interesting Danish guy David, great fun talking with him. We even watch Lord of the Rings together, Joe started to put a character's name on us. Here's the game for you, we have 6 people (Me, Hanna, Lena, Joe, Jon, David) with 1 character each (Gandoff, Sam, Froddo, Sauro, Arwen, Tree Beard), you do the match! :p
Went up to see the Glacier in the next morning, didn't climb it since it was very expensive and we were really tight in the budget. Instead of that, we did a lunch break at the bottom of the Glacier, was very nice! Plus, Joe went for a chilling shower under the waterfall. He's bloody crazy fool! but I respect that.
After that, up we went to Punakaiki where they have the Pancake Rocks and the Blowhole. On our way, we stopped at Okarito to see the amazing Lagoon and tried to search the wild kiwi. (no luck tho...) Pancake Rocks was so facinating, I was totally blown away! We stayed at Te Nikau Retreat for one night, there I met this lovely English lady Catherine and we talked until god knows when. Have a good trip at the south Catherine!
Last night we arrived Nelson, which was a shithole, I got a terrible (sydney) homesick there, so there's nothing to talk about. (worse than Christchurch) We took a ferry to the Northern Island this afternoon and here we are in Wellington - The capital of New Zealand!
Love Wellington a lot! Especially the groovy building in the city center~ Except one thing... Can you believe that they haven't got Sin City yet??? God, we need to wait til' 11 Aug! So probably will see it in Auckland, no one allows to spill the story in front of me! Or I'll Kill Ye! We went to see The Island there at night, it was a pretty kool film. Start with detective genre and shifted to purely actions. I quite like it tho it made me feel a bit numb in the end. (3.8 out of 5)
Staying in the Wildlife Backpacker now, It's a very funky building (Zebra painting on the wall!). Free internet!! Woo hoo!! I spent like 5 hours for this message! Including chating with people online, and the kool Dutch guy Dan who sat next to me. I really enjoy the great chat with him about the trip, art, junky email, kool sites, stupid jokes and other shit. Nice to meet you man!
Ok, I guess this is long enough for you to read it in a week. Keep your email and message coming!! Damn! It's already one half here! I better head to sleep now! ciao!! xo
P.S. Thanks for answering my question Em! miss ya girlfriend!
P.P.S. Happy Birthday Pauly! Tell me how's your party~~!
P.P.P.S. I MISS FBi!!!!!!!!!! Arghhh~~~!
[[audio: Do You Know The Way To San Jose? - Dionne Warwick]]
I know I know, I'm a lazy bastard. Well... Not really!! I just couldn't find a cheap internet place since Queenstown, in other words, I'm simply a tight arse! bite me.
Hee hee, anyway... let's continue my journey at Queenstown. This place is a pretty kool ski town for city people, but we decided to do the skiing in Wanaka for cheaper deal.
Next morning, a random English dude Tom ran into our dorm just wanna put his melting butter in our fridge, our curiosity kicked off the conversation. (quite easy to friends here, huh?) He was actually 80% looks like Hayden Christensen (aka. Anakin in Star War III), pretty boy... but very tough, he did 3 different bungy in a day, mental! I might do the bungy or skydive at Taupo in the Northern Island, apparently it's the cheapest place to do all this shit. But... we'll see~
Did a crazy walk up to the Bob's Peak, where people usually spend $15 to take a cable car up instead. It was breathtaking but definitely worth it by seeing the nice view around! There, you can see heaps people doing paragliding, yet we were more attracted to the luge up there. It was quite fast and we did a luge race too, absolutely fun! WEE~~~!!!! *happy*
Me, Lena and Joe did a special extra trip while Hanna and Jon rest in the dorm. We headed to the north of Queenstown, where the place's called Glenorchy. In this little town, a hidden area named Paradise was also another stunning filming spot of Lord Of The Rings, it was a very nice place, clear river, crispy air, beautiful mountains mixed of green and white. Took so many pictures, golly that was amazing!
Went to Wanaka after we had enough in Queens of the town, grabbed our ski equipments and headed all the way up to Cardrona. My skiing's virginity was gone with Hanna and Jon. Hanna taught me how to turn, slow down and stop, practised twice in the learner ground, then we go up to the top of the mountain!! *shit my pant!*
Funny thing is my first accident was happened on the cable chair, where I tried to ski off in the middle of the seat in between of Jon and Hanna. I was tripped back down to the seat while they both ski off the left and the right way. Chair began to rise and U-turning, I was panic since it would be very embarrassing to sit by myself all the way down to the mountain, while others were looking at you on the other side. Hence, I decided to jumped off, unfortunately fell, and that's how I hurt my thumb...
That, however, didn't devastate my gut! I enjoyed skiing so much and know nothing about the pain on my thumb! (probably it was really cold too...) I ski quite fast after a few times, then Hanna and Jon took me to the next level - a new path! (intermedia level) I was just trying to keep up with them, went down to this track called Highway 89', I ski down with the speed of 100K! Didn't know how to stop so I just sat down on the snow, dragged my arse 5km far until it finally stopped! A stranger just came up with an amazing eyes saying "God you are spectecular! I've never see someone skiing that fast!" After I told him that's my first time skiing, he was even shocker as I'm still alive. Good fun. :)
Drove up to the Franz Josef Glacier the next day and found a very nice cottage, we couldn't do much since it was almost the evening. So I started to chat with some strangers, met this interesting Danish guy David, great fun talking with him. We even watch Lord of the Rings together, Joe started to put a character's name on us. Here's the game for you, we have 6 people (Me, Hanna, Lena, Joe, Jon, David) with 1 character each (Gandoff, Sam, Froddo, Sauro, Arwen, Tree Beard), you do the match! :p
Went up to see the Glacier in the next morning, didn't climb it since it was very expensive and we were really tight in the budget. Instead of that, we did a lunch break at the bottom of the Glacier, was very nice! Plus, Joe went for a chilling shower under the waterfall. He's bloody crazy fool! but I respect that.
After that, up we went to Punakaiki where they have the Pancake Rocks and the Blowhole. On our way, we stopped at Okarito to see the amazing Lagoon and tried to search the wild kiwi. (no luck tho...) Pancake Rocks was so facinating, I was totally blown away! We stayed at Te Nikau Retreat for one night, there I met this lovely English lady Catherine and we talked until god knows when. Have a good trip at the south Catherine!
Last night we arrived Nelson, which was a shithole, I got a terrible (sydney) homesick there, so there's nothing to talk about. (worse than Christchurch) We took a ferry to the Northern Island this afternoon and here we are in Wellington - The capital of New Zealand!
Love Wellington a lot! Especially the groovy building in the city center~ Except one thing... Can you believe that they haven't got Sin City yet??? God, we need to wait til' 11 Aug! So probably will see it in Auckland, no one allows to spill the story in front of me! Or I'll Kill Ye! We went to see The Island there at night, it was a pretty kool film. Start with detective genre and shifted to purely actions. I quite like it tho it made me feel a bit numb in the end. (3.8 out of 5)
Staying in the Wildlife Backpacker now, It's a very funky building (Zebra painting on the wall!). Free internet!! Woo hoo!! I spent like 5 hours for this message! Including chating with people online, and the kool Dutch guy Dan who sat next to me. I really enjoy the great chat with him about the trip, art, junky email, kool sites, stupid jokes and other shit. Nice to meet you man!
Ok, I guess this is long enough for you to read it in a week. Keep your email and message coming!! Damn! It's already one half here! I better head to sleep now! ciao!! xo
P.S. Thanks for answering my question Em! miss ya girlfriend!
P.P.S. Happy Birthday Pauly! Tell me how's your party~~!
P.P.P.S. I MISS FBi!!!!!!!!!! Arghhh~~~!
[[audio: Do You Know The Way To San Jose? - Dionne Warwick]]
