Queenstown

After Christchurch we took an 8 hour bus ride down to Queenstown. Queenstown is where Bungy jumping was invented. It was pretty cloudy most of the days but still really pretty. Queenstown is by a huge lake so we spent a lot of time talking walks and reading on the beach.





















One night we were watching tv at our hostel and saw tons of smoke so we went outside and there was a maori man preparing a hangi. They make this HUGE fire and then let it die down and bury food underground and it cooks overnight. So we stayed and watched him--the whole thing took about 2 hours. After the food went in he covered it with wet sheets, and then we got to help him cover the whole thing with dirt. We smelled like BBQ for the rest of our trip, but it was such a cool thing to do.