The Luge...

Greeted by a drizzly wet morning in Rotarua the awesome foursome, as I've now decided we will call ourselves, we're again on the hot for something to get the adrenaline pumping. This morning that would be luge track racing down the hillside in Rotarua. 

A short gondola ride takes you to the top of the hill where presumably on a clear day you can get a lovely view of the Rotarua lake and surrounding farming lands. Nay and I have been down the tracks at Queenstown several weeks ago but only bought tickets for one ride down the luge, after which it became clear why the slogan is "One ride is never enough!". Rather sneakily the cost of buying a second go once your up the top is five times more expensive so having learned our lesson we bought tickets for 3 luge rides at the bottom before we caught the gondola up. 

We donned our matching safety helmets to resemble a Ferrari pit team and worked our way down the beginner slope first. The carts are brilliant and controlled with handlebars that steer and allow you to brake down the slope. 

They're pretty nifty and can perform some excellent overtaking moves. On our second and third runs we took a few videos to share with you on the way down.