Today is the "optional activities" day of the tour, where individual members of the "Fellowship" chose different activities to participate in. Jeanne, Nick, Linda, Lyn and myself went on the Dart River Safari , which involved a bus to Glenorchy, a 4WD bus through Paradise (where we saw some LOTR shooting locations), a bushwalk through an ancient beech forest, and jet-boating up the Dart River within the Mt. Aspiring National Park and Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Area . We then took the 4.35pm Qantas flight QF4152 from Queenstown to Auckland. Thus ended our Journey to Middle Earth. Dart River Safari We stopped for a few minutes at Bennett's Bend. It was around 8.15am, and the skies were still pretty cloudy. [Tip: clicking on the image allows you to view it in Live Spaces and download it in high resolution (1280x800)] Another view of Bennett's Bend (sky clearing up). This is a picture of us arriving at Glenorchy. We entered "
Chris Tham's Travel Diary - 11-22 April 2004