I forgot to mention in yesterday's post that Air New Zealand has quite frankly the best cabin safety video of all time. In what they called "the most epic safety video", the entire thing has a Lord of the Rings theme. There are a few cameos and they were able to use elements from the movies to explain how to buckle your seat belt and use the oxygen mask. There were elves, dwarves, orcs, everything. Seriously, very awesome.
Today's drive through Middle Earth was also awesome. We left Christchurch and headed south to Aoraki/Mount Cook. It was really overcast to start, but by the time we got to the mountains it was clear and sunny. Then the awesome scenery started. Honestly, sometimes there is just too much awesome to take in all at once. I tried taking photos from the car (because we weren't stopping for anything), but I'm sure they're blurry and don't quite capture just how amazing it was to see it. The snow capped mountains peaking above the clouds, the lakes that were so blue and smooth they didn't look real. At the mountain, we hiked the trail that took us up close to one of the glaciers and had a better view of Mount Cook. As we made our way from Mount Cook to Queenstown, we went through Lindis Pass which was basically driving between 2 mountain ranges. The awesome kept going even as we were getting into Queenstown, which is situated within the mountains next to a lake with spectacular views all around. I've already declared it my new favourite place.
It's late and the epic journey continues tomorrow as I dive off a platform using the world's tallest swing. To be continued (hopefully)...
"Don't believe me, just watch"
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