After a struggle to wake up yesterday morning, we left our Wanaka hostel and headed just down the road to Puzzling World - a world unique attraction specialising in puzzling eccentricity. It's been around for over 35 years entertaining and amazing visitors. They offer the world's first "3-D" Great Maze, incredible illusion rooms, eccentric architecture and the intriguing Psychic Challenge.

We spent a fair amount of time wondering the various illusion rooms, and then headed out to the Great Maze, a fascinating and enjoyable puzzle containing over 1.5km of passages which interlink with each other. After what turned into a rush around the maze and managing to actually complete it, it was back on the bus and headed in the general direction of Queenstown, about an hour's drive away.

Before arriving into Queenstown, we stopped off at Kawarau Bridge - home to the original 43 metre Bungy Jump, where Bungy founders AJ Hackett and Henry van Ash started it all back in 1988. Even though its only 47m high, much less than some of the other ones around, there was still no way I was about to sign up for that rubbish. Just watching the others jump made my stomach do a turn. I'll stick to the viewing deck where I can hide away watch from. There were however a good number of our group who decided on jumping, so after watching them all jump it was back on the bus, with next stop being Queenstown.

After not long we entered Queenstown - the adventure capital of the world. It certainly had quite a reputation about it, both from people outside New Zealand as well as people locally. Plus Queenstown was where the England squad, and more specifically Mike Tindall had recently found themselves in a bit of hot water with the press. So it was no doubt going to be a good few days coming up. Plus still plenty of rugby on the TV.

We were welcomed into Queenstown with the most stunning scenery of mountains and lakes - my favourite bits of nature, and amongst all of that was this small, beautiful and crazy little town. The first stop was for our group photo before heading to our hostel to check in. After dropping our bags, we took a walk through town to check out a few of the adventures they had on offer for us over the next few days.

Despite being rather against it, sort of, Haig and I headed over to the Canyon Swing offices to enquire about their swing options. Since Haig wasn't all that keen on the skydive but had gone along with the idea, apparently I was now locked into doing a giant canyon swing. Seriously? Not so sure on this idea. Too late now though, its all booked and paid for for tomorrow afternoon.

With that out the way we headed back to the hostel for some catch up sleep, then it was Fergburger time. I had heard from an array of people to try a Fergburger - the famous burgers of Queenstown. And it most certainly lived up to its reputation. To the point it rivals the classic Steers Burger. Never thought I'd say that :)

After a bite to eat, well more than just a bite, those burgers were the size of your head, we all met up in the common room of the hostel for a couple of beers before heading out. The first stop of the might was the popular Altitude Bar, with the Australia vs USA game being shown on the big screens. It was a fairly average game as can be expected, with Australia winning by 67 points to only 5.

Afterwards it was time for the jager train, guessing its something they've now perfected over time. It involves lining up 50 tumblers of Redbull and balancing shots of Jager on top between the glasses and tipping the first one over which in turn topple all of them to end with 50 Jagerbombs. Nice. Made it a bit more interesting than just ordering one from the bar.

After the excitement of the Jager train, it was off to World Bar, just down the road. Their attraction was a free NZ$1000 bar tab, which is always welcomed. Needless to say it didn't last long, but reckon most of us got a fair bit out if it.

What I did like about the World Bar was their teapot cocktail thing, where they have a range of cocktails all served in mini teapots, which quite a novel idea. What I didn't like about World Bar was the music, just rubbish really. So after only being able to handle so much, we left and went to try find another option, but fell short of places to go. Except for one trustworthy place - Fergburger. And that certainly didn't let us down, even for a second time in a day :) Having ended the evening on a positive note, it was time to call it a day and head back to the hostel.