After a 17-hour flight from LAX to Auckland, I cleared customs, then caught another 2-hour flight to the South Island and Queenstown. The pilots warned us that the airport has a pretty crazy approach. The city is surrounded by mountains, so for the last half hour, we were flying through pretty narrow canyons and generally had to look up to see the mountain tops.
This cool, old church was across the street from my hotel. Queenstown is know as the center for outdoor adventure activities in New Zealand - bungee jumping and jet-boating were both invented here. It has a summertime population of less than 30 k, but it doubles in the winter for snow skiing.
Looking towards dowtown, you can see the path that the Skyline gondola takes up to the Ben Lomond Nature Reserve.
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