Wanaka - Queenstown

We headed to Puzzling World this morning which is a bit of a weird attraction! There is a massive maze (1.2 km) and you have to find your way to all four corners and back out again! I found this easy enough but some people couldn't do it! The puzzling world has a holograph gallery with freaky holographs! There is a circular room where there are faces all over the walls with eyes that follow you! Then the weirdest room is the tilted room it's all on a slope and it messes something chronic with your balance! I felt really ill after this! The last room is the little and large room where you can see how in Lord of the Rings they made hobbits appear so small!

The cafe in puzzling world was great as well! They had loads of puzzles on the tables that you could play with and work out! The best was one called tantrix! Weird name! You had 8 blocks and had to make loops out of the lines on them! Sounds weird - it is! But it was addictive!

We then went to a place called Have A Shot where you can play mini golf, go on a driving range, clay pigeon shooting, rifle range and archery. We only had an hour - damn! So I started with the rifle range where I had 30 shots and I did really well (I have the targets so I can show you all when I get back!). I then did Archery where I had 20 minutes and got in about 45 shots and only 15 landed on the target paper! I wasn't so good at this! But it was great fun! I would have liked to tried the clay pigeon shooting but didn't have time. The golf driving range was a real one but it had sheep in the range!! I don't know if this is classed as cruelty to animals?!!

We stopped in Cromwell after this at a fruit shop and bought loads of fresh fruit and the most amazing fruit ice creams!

The next stop was AJ Hackett Kawarau Bridge Bungy Jump! Oh my god these people are mad! We watched stunned at these people jumping, some were flying through the air, some were silent with fear, some actually got dipped in the water and one mad pair did it together! They were off of our bus! It was great to watch but there is no way in hell I would ever do that! Also it is so expensive just for a 20 second experience (you do get a free t shirt though!).

We then headed into Queenstown and stopped off at Info and Track for people who are here to book activities, as I have 6 days here I decided to go back and book stuff tomorrow! I headed to Starbucks and ran into loads of people off my previous bus and off of other buses! I arranged to meet up later with Ruth and Emily who I had seen in Franz Josef last!

We then got dropped off at the hostel which was awful! It was a packed 8 bed dorm with no room to move! The building was really old and not very clean! So I went into town with some of the girls from my dorm and got some food shopping and dinner. Back at the hostel I phoned around trying to find somewhere else to stay!

I met Emily and Ruth in town and they were staying at the YHA Central, they showed me their room and it was massive, only 5 beds in the room, en suite and TV! So I booked myself in the YHA for tomorrow!

We all went to Starbucks then and got some coffee and sat on the beach watching the sunset! I went for a paddle in the lake but it was freezing! We then headed back into town and walked around and headed to the World Bar but it was dead so we went to Altitude which was a bit busier and they were giving away free margheritas!

We stayed in Altitude for a bit but the girls had to get up early to go to Christchurch the next day and they walked me back to my hostel. It was quite dark walking along and I'm glad to have had company!