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I’m Not Sure If This Is What Newton Had In Mind

Many of the activities we have planned here in New Zealand depend on the cooperation of mother nature. You wouldn’t exactly want to bungee jump during a blizzard would ya? What’s that you say? You don’t EVER want to bungee jump? Lame. Well we do, but more on that in another blog entry.

Today our plans to fly out to Milford Sound were foiled by some excessive precipitation there. So instead we decided to hurl our bodies down the side of a mountain at the Queenstown Skyline.

First, you need a mountain.

That’s where the gondola ride comes in.

Up and over the sheep on the hillside…

…and past the bungee platform…

Or, alternatively if you’re too impatient for all of that, you can take the more direct route via helicopter.

Either way, you need to make your way to the top so you can then transfer to the luge-lift…

Then it’s just a matter of grabbing your helmet and sled…

…and letting gravity do it’s thing.

Before you know it, you’re screaming down the side of the mountain at breakneck speeds running little kids off the road and laughing all the while.

Now if only we can find out way outta here before their parents catch us.

Authored by: Digital Knowmadd on January 5, 2009.
Filed under: New Zealand,Oceania,Travel | 2 Comments »