Queenstown Adventure Day: Bungy, Jet Boat, and Paragliding

Every traveller in Cappadocia books the balloon flight. The question is whether it lives up to the hype. The answer, emphatically, is yes — it is among the most genuinely spectacular experiences available anywhere.

Explora Patagonia sits at the edge of Torres del Paine National Park, designed by the Chilean architect Germán del Sol to make the landscape the total experience. It is, without reservation, the finest wilderness lodge I have visited.

The Kawarau Bridge jump is where commercial bungy began, and it remains the most atmospheric of the several AJ Hackett sites around Queenstown. The 43-metre drop above a turquoise Andean river is not something that preparatory research fully prepares you for.

The classic four-day Inca Trail — 45 kilometres, four mountain passes, dozens of archaeological sites, and the most dramatic arrival at a destination in the world. All of it documented.