After the hiking, Niels and I decided to give downhill mountain biking (MTB) a go.  We hired bikes in Queenstown and then went up the Gondola.  They mount your bikes onto the cable car and they go up with you.  From the top are magnificent views.

Neither of us had ridden a downhill bike before so it took us a while to get use to it.  We started off on the easiest track, Hammies.  My body was certainly not use to this type of riding and my quads were burning after only a short while.  This was closely followed by my hands from breaking and holding on.  We got a couple of action shots:

We tried some different trails and found a really steep one where I screamed the whole way down!  We had four hours on the hill and managed to do about 5 runs.  We finished a little bit early as we were getting really tired.  The funniest thing about the whole thing was that afterwards Niels could barely work due to being stiff.  I on the other hand after walking 70 km over the previous 6 days was good.