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[quote=Anonymous]The Tongoriro Crossing--do that!  Awesome day hike!  And there is a big fancy hotel nearby there--old, famous; nothing around it--that's the place to stay--and order the Beef bourganion.  You'll find that hotel in any tour book.

(OMG pardon my spelling for all this)

Kaikoura is a town on the South Island that has an ocean situation that makes it full of everything--fish, seals, whales, all right there.  Go there!

We did not get the Milford Track (the most famous of the Tracks) but got the Routeburn Track.  These tracks take a few days.  Routeburn was fantastic and there are not as many stinging flies as on the Milford Track (so I've been told). You have to apply for this; only a certain amount of folks are allowed to go and stay in the lodgings.

Outside Queenstown there was a company ha! I remembered it!  Called "The Shotover Jet" and that ride was fun.

There is a cave (Wai….Waiwowa?)  A famous cave with glow-worms.  I recall we just sat in a boat and floated under them.  I often think of it, even though it was sedate by comparison.

We did another rappelling, caving experience (and had no experience) but it was a blast.  During one part of it, you turn off your headlamp and it's pitch dark and they fling you on a pulley over a gorge--omg so fun.  Then on that cave ledge, everyone stops for tea.  Then we walked on the cave/river floor--with some big old eel.

Also, we took a helicopter up to the top of Franz-Joseph glacier.

Somewhere in there we saw a sheep-shearing.

Have fun, OP, and let us know what you did and how the endangered Kiwi and that endangered parrot that hangs out on the ground are doing. [/quote]

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