Project Honeymoon - Day 19: Downtown Queenstown

Gondola Ride - The thing to do in downtown Queenstown (other than shop) is take the gondola ride up the mountain.  This ride is much smaller than the one at Grouse Mountain, but the view is just as nice.  One thing we definitely don't have at the Grouse gondola are sheep...only in NZ.

Sheep under the Gondola

Paragliding - You can tandem paraglide off the mountain.  A viewing deck at the top lets you see people as they run and take off.  Now that looks like a lot of fun compared to bungy jumping.  Maybe Hubby and I will give it a try back home; as Hubby said, our mountains are bigger.

Paragliders in the distance

Luge - For $15 more you can add two luge rides to your gondola ticket.  A ski lift takes you and the carts up to the start of the tracks.  Everyone must do the scenic track first before going on the advanced track.  Hubby seemed skeptical about how fast we'd be able to go which would directly relate to how much fun he would have.  Fortunately, the ride was not disappointing,  You can actually go pretty fast and if you're not careful around the sharp turns you could totally wipe out on the boards.  The advanced track has cool drops which really allow you to gain speed.  Hmmm, if only we had millions of dollars to open one of these back home...LOL.  They actually already have one in Montreal.

Ski lift carrying people and luge carts

Luge

Devil Burger - Reception at our accomodation was not lying about how huge the burgers are at Devil Burger.  In hindsight, Hubby and I should have just shared one burger between the two of us...oh well, we're on vacation.

Big burger!