As locals will tell you, Queenstown is a hard place to leave. It’s notorious for people coming there for a week or a month and staying for a year or longer. I knew I had to get out of there, so I planned to hitchhike to the Franz Joseph glacier, roughly a five or six …
Travel Notes: Queenstown
Queenstown is awesome, as described in a previous post. I think I’d like to have a vacation home there some day. After a long bus ride from Christchurch I arrived and checked into Base, a chain hostel for a young, raucous, action-sports oriented type of crowd. Eight-bunk dorms in tight quarters with minimal personal space. …
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Queenstown. My new favorite city in the Southern Hemisphere. Just...wow. The small town is situated in a lake-side valley surrounded by mountains on all sides, with a few main streets filled with restaurants, bars, shops and tourist attractions. The action sports capitol of the world, Queenstown is full of everything but kiwis...what seems the vast …
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