Your friends will finally tell you to shut up. They will comment on your shaking hands and your shifty eyes. On the drive to town you begin to think back about your jump and wonder if you will ever do it again. If you decide against it, there are plenty of others behind you waiting for their turn. Queenstown and its visitors are hooked.
Adrenaline junkies call New Zealand home.
Isolated by island status and the Tasman Sea, New Zealand floats just east of Australia, its north and south islands staring each other down while they watch over the cooler climes of the South Pacific. Much like the Big Island of Hawaii, the geographic diversity surprises, spanning sub-tropical rain forest, high desert, Mediterranean seaboard, hilly farmland, river valleys, high alpine glaciers and majestic fiordlands. Yet with all the varied terrain, getting lost in New Zealand is difficult. Everything lies within a short drive or hopper flight. But with only 3.5 million people and 60 million sheep, solitude comes cheaply in New Zealand.