Today, I shall start the Routeburn Track; 32 beautiful kilometres through the mountain pass between the Aspiring and Fjordland National Parks. I do not yet know how I'm getting there. I'm sure it will work out. As it turns out, a lovely Canadian girl called Sarah from my hostel is doing the...
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Today, I am taking it easy. Just eating some noodles and looking out over the lake at the mountains...and wondering why I would ever leave this place....
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OH MA GAWD! SIM BOWA MUST BE 50...60....70...134 METRES HIGH! HE CAN'T BE THINKING OF... DOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMBBBBBBUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!! [gallery type="rectangular" ids="3197,3196,3194,3200,3199,3198,3201"] There are only 2 bungy jumps in the world higher than this one. It...was...AMAZING!...
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Today the bathroom was busy, so I brushed my teeth in the shower. It was exhilarating. Oh, I also jumped out of a plane 15,000 feet above the earth, with only some billowing device to prevent my body from being obliterated upon impact. Oh and another man to activate aforementioned billowing devi...
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Here I am in the Adventure Capital of the World. All around me, people are performing brave and mighty deeds as if they were everyday activities! Here a man leaps from a bridge, there a woman hurls herself from a plane - on the other side of the city, groups of people hurtle along a river in a spe...
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When I was forged upon the great anvil in the sky, the prophets of men foretold that I would be the last. Like all prophets, however, their conviction was a weak as their grip. Before the Great Smith could even finish his work, the Nine Champions of Men were sent to bash Him in the face and send ...
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I wake to a hum of pain about my body. There was nothing enormous to lift in the park last night, so instead I performed a series of exercise and feats beneath the full moon. When exhaustion claimed me, I fell to my knees and reconsidered my vows of adventure. Then I drank some free beer ...
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The Jailhouse hostel could not be any more different from the Arts Factory if it had been specifically designed as a crash-out room for tripping hippies. As it happens, it pretty much was! This is a historical jail, where they would hold convicted criminals prior to sentencing. I have stayed in...
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