Adventure town!

As Josele already explained, for phase three of our trip we are in Queenstown, the so called "extreme" capital of the world. It is not my cup of tea of a place, too many "extreme" people and "extreme" shops. But I should not complain, as that is what phase three is about: 

We're going hardcore, dude!

In order to be really hardcore we have decided to choose, out of all the ridiculous sports you can do in here, the least and the most ridiculous of the batch. This morning we have done a very reasonable and familiar run on a white water river riding a very reasonable and familiar raft. We have jumped in the water, splashed at each other and generally have had a very wholesome morning. Then we came back to Queenstown where we had enough time to try the most "extreme" hamburger in town before going on to the second activity of the day, the crazy idiot nuts one.

The hamburger turned out to be pretty good and we also found our beverage of choice in this corner of the world. Ginger beer is non alcoholic, delicious, tastes like sushi ginger and has twice as much sugar as a Coke. So yes, we'll have one or two in the future, but not too many.

Talking about beverages, the wine we had yesterday was quite nice, but very new world style. No surprises and I still stand by my wine guru, who says that NZ wines are good but very samey. But I'll keep trying to prove him wrong.

The pinots were fruity but not complex neither on the nose or in the mouth. Too short aftertaste in my view and some had alcohol problems. The Riesling was as normal Riesling, very nice, but when you have tried the good ones and know what can be done with a Riesling, this one was extremely... normal.

The best of the lot was a pinot blnc, of all things. It had a lot of wood and did not match at all the fish dish, but I found it quite delicious. JL also liked that particular wine, so we all won yesterday!

Anyway, I am disgressing as I have still not told you about the second activity in Queenstown!

We did the Nevis Bungee Jump, 134 mts. in altitude, the highest jump in all Australasia and a fucking scary thing to do.
Scary does not even begin to describe it. You get to the top of a huge canyon where they have basically hung a big telephone cabin from some wires. There is a small steel basket that takes 4 people over the chasm into the telephone cabin. It is only when you get into the basket and you are moving tovards the chasm that you realize how fucking high 134 metres are. And you have time to look down, think about it, over and over, while the different harnesses are attached to your feet and your chest.
I went ahead of Josele and to be honest, I was way more scared than I thought I would be. I have experience with heights and ropes and usually can deal fine with it, but this damn telephone cabin hanging from a wire was not stable by any means. I did a shitty jump, stylewise, but I did jump, after all.
The fall is so incredibly long and short that you cannot think, but you can realize what an idiot you are. Once you get to the bottom, the first rebound takes you up and when you think the worst is over, you have a second free bungee jump as you fall back into the empty space.
I lost my voice shouting, got back to the cabin and started shaking like a leaf. But of course, I had to put up a big smile to encourage Josele, he was next.
unfazed by the situation, he did a much, much better jump than mine and when we got back he got some photos. Enjoy!