embracing aotearoa

More pictures! The mountain in the background from the above picture is called the Remarkables. Its easy to see why it was given that name! And if you think the mountain looked familiar, you are probably right! The Remarkables was filmed in LOTR as the Misty mountains! Go back and watch the film again because I have! Haha. The Queenstown region is down right Lord of the rings territory baby! Ruth and I sat on the skippers canyon jet ride high up in the shotover river as well and it was fantastic! We got such an adrenaline rush from that ride! The ride to the site was breathtaking as the driver took us to the cliffs edge throughout the journey. Some parts of the ride were so scary that the Yanks that came along even talked about death. Morbid bunch of people. We even went past the rivers bed where Arwen rode across with Frodo and said " if you want him. Come and Claim him!" How epic was that?! Picture below was where the scene was shot at.

http://picasaweb.google.com/tim.widmann/NewZealand06Queenstown#5157338062460465266

We even had the best burger ever at FERGBURGER. I can honestly say, I will never look at burgers the same way again. All the other burgers out there are no match at all for the Fergburger. You can only get this in NZ. No where else. Extremely Scrummy and the portions were huge as!

We splurged on the buffet up on the skyline where we had the best views in town.
Loved it!

Desert wine