Chris's Travel Tales

Summer 2008 trip round Central America from panama to Mexico. Lots of steaming jungle, idylic beaches and overgrown ruins. Pics will be on facebook and flckr/lyleston. Chris :()

Monday, January 29, 2007

I LOVE THIS FUCKING COUNTRY!!! Arrived in Queenstown this evening after spending the night in Makarora. Did some jet boating which is my new favourite sport as it is totally mental. Got up to about 120km/hour in as little as 6 inches of water. The driver was a total mentalist and spent the whole time trying to scare the living whit out of us (successfully i might add). We were tanking along about 1/2 m away form the side of the river and jinking in and out of rocks and trees. he showed us the emergancy break which sent a tidal wave 3 feet high over the bow (and me). definatly going to do it again as it was awesome. There was some karaoke on aftwerwards but gaver that a miss in leau of an early night which was much needed!

Queenstown has got to be the adrenaline capital of the world as u seem to be able to do anything that involves jumping, throwing, powering or other ways of scaring the living shit out of yourselves. I've signed up with Team Dutch to do something called Fly Swinging, which is basically strapping yourself into a sldge with a jet engine strapped to the back. Which is suspended in a canyon 400m up then swinging at 180km/h in an arc down and being able to fly it around the canyon. Will try and find the link for the web site and maybe some vids of it as it is going to be crazy.

Might be tempted by the nevis bungy as it is 130m drop and is the most extreme one in the world at the moment. Mike and Ronan are arriving tomorrow so we will have more idea what we are going to be doing then.

Over and out folks,

Me

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

sounds awesome! so jealous you are still traveling. I am back in the working world dreaming of the next adventure:)

take care
-amber

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