february-2010
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february-2010
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ADRENALINE<br />
QUEENSTOWN<br />
Conservation for overnight accommodation<br />
on the way, however day hikes on all these<br />
tracks are free. While you won’t get up into the<br />
heights and passes for views of glacial lakes<br />
and snowy peaks, the wire rope bridges along<br />
the Caples River are fun to bounce across and<br />
there’s plenty of easy walking for kids on the<br />
lowland areas.<br />
Mountain biking<br />
to Macetown<br />
I head back to Arrowtown’s<br />
Chinese settlement today on<br />
a mountain bike (NZ$50;AU$40/day) to<br />
Day 6<br />
tackle the 13.1km off-road track to Macetown,<br />
an abandoned gold mining settlement 21 river<br />
38 FEBRUARY <strong>2010</strong><br />
Tackle off-road<br />
trails to Macetown<br />
on a moutain bike<br />
crossings upstream. One of these was used to<br />
fi lm the Lord of the Rings scene when Arwen<br />
stops the Nazgûl fording the river, so I feel like<br />
I’m riding into the movie itself. Unfortunately<br />
I don’t see Arwen, but there are other riders,<br />
4WDers and the occasional runner tackling<br />
the bumpy route.<br />
Fly-fi shing<br />
at Glenorchy<br />
On my last day I go fl y-fi shing<br />
(licences NZ$21/AU$17 for<br />
24 hours) near Glenorchy for rainbow and<br />
Day 7<br />
brown trout. It’s magic to watch the fl y fl ash<br />
across the water and as dusk falls, it becomes<br />
achingly beautiful. It seems a fi tting end to a<br />
FIND IT<br />
Queenstown i-SITE<br />
Visitor Centre<br />
Clocktower Building, cnr<br />
Shotover and Camp Sts,<br />
Queenstown,<br />
tel: +64 (3) 442 4100<br />
Outside Sports<br />
Bike Hire<br />
36 Shotover St,<br />
Queenstown,<br />
tel: +64 (3) 441 0074<br />
Skyline Gondola<br />
Brecon St, Queenstown,<br />
tel: +64 (3) 441 0101<br />
Arrowtown Visitor<br />
Information Centre<br />
and Lakes District<br />
Museum<br />
49 Buckingham St,<br />
Arrowtown,<br />
tel: +64 (3) 442 1824<br />
Department of<br />
Conservation<br />
Queenstown Regional<br />
Visitor Centre<br />
38 Shotover St,<br />
Queenstown,<br />
tel: +64 (3) 442 7935<br />
Glenorchy Information<br />
Centre<br />
Mull St, Glenorchy,<br />
tel: +64 (3) 409 2049<br />
week in which I’ve hardly spent a cent<br />
and left only footsteps, ripples, bike tracks<br />
and exclamations.<br />
Jetstar flies out of Australia to Queenstown<br />
via Christchurch and Auckland; JetSaver<br />
Light fares from AU$179. Domestic New<br />
Zealand flights from NZ$49. Book online<br />
at Jetstar.com.
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