::scipio's adventures

Yes. New Zealand loves to play outdoors. In 1988 some guys from the Oxford dangerous sports club thought that it might be cool to jump off a bridge, being attached to a rubber cord.

I knew: If you ever wanna try Bungee, Queenstown is the perfect place to start. I jumped off Kawarau Bridge. The site of the first commercial bungee-jump. Not so high and great to start with. Great feeling when you jump down and not so terrifying as you might think (once you have jumped)

That was a good one. My plan was to check out some caves in Waitomo. But it had been raining all night and the cave was almost flooded. The guide wasn't sure wether we can do the tour or not. Me and 4 guys from the UK decided to give it a try. It was awesome. There was so much water in the cave. Our guide Kieran loved it too. Abseiling the waterfall was particulary good.

Yeah. Drove all the way up to Kaitaia and had to take the bus for the last couple of km because it's easy to loose your car at the 90-mile-beach.

Today I noticed that my fligth back to Austria leaves at 16:20. That gives me one more day in southern Spain because I still catch the flight if I arrive in Lisbon the same day. I took the chance to visit Gibraltar. The British took over the rock 302 years ago and defended it sucessfully against various enemies. Today Gibraltar reminds me pretty much of Great Britain or London. You can quite the same stores and sights are equally expensive. I bought myself a Burton shirt. The shirt is great but it turned out to be a bad idea to buy it BEFORE visiting the upper rock, since a gang of Barbary Macaques (apes) sit around there and wait for tourists to nick stuff from them. Preferably plastic bags and rucksacks. You really have to watch out and hide your stuff.

To escape the thieving apes I made a tour through the mountain's tunnel system. There a 50 km of tunnels, but only 35 km of road on Gibraltar. A German gave me a private tour. I guess he was quite happy to speak some German for a change.

PS: I uploaded some new photos. See them here.