Gondola and Luge

Wednesday 12th March

One of the highlights of Queenstown, literally, is the Skyline. This is a complex of restaurants and a luge circuit at the top of the mountain overlooking the town and lake. To get there you must go up in a cable car, and then to go on the luge it is a ski lift to the top before getting these go kart type things back down. I guess it is sort of like doing the luge, just on concrete instead of ice.

So off we went in the morning, up the cable car, which gives great views of the town and Lake Wakatipu, and we got up to the luge. It was fairly good, and as it says it is a great view blurred by speed. It was fairly enjoyable but like most mountain tops there wasn't much to do. Unless you want to jump off the mountain in various formats. Some friends of Clare, who we had met for drinks the previous night in an Irish bar, where else, had done a sort of bungee of the mountain. This makes jumping off the bridge look normal.

Anyway after lunch we headed back down and played a game of crazy golf and afterwards went for a few walks around the town. Although it is a adventure sort of place, given the amount of travelling we had all done to get to Queenstown, we were taking the chance of having a bit of a chill, made a lot easier by having a permanent place to stay for 6 days.