Emily Cournane last month took her riverboard down one of the fiercest white water rivers in the world, the Sun Kosi River in Nepal.
She and nine other riverboarders kicked and fought with the rapids to go down the river in a record-breaking 10 days.
"It was awesome," she said.
"It was a beautiful river, white sand and gorgeous beaches."
But Miss Cournane was already looking about for her next big challenge and said the hardest thing of all was coming home because she had now caught the "travel bug".
The 29-year-old loves Arrowtown, but has struggled to adjust to her routine.
"We will, hopefully, be able to do another mission. There was a bit of talk of that after we finished.
"There weren't really any negatives the whole trip."
Miss Cournane is a qualified massage therapist and is looking for a job locally, but she said her "hobby" of riverboarding could well take her back to Nepal for a job in commercial boarding in the Sun Kosi, which is fed by the Himalayas.
After 10 gruelling 9am-5pm days spent in the water, she took some time out for sightseeing and shopping in Pokhara, which, she said, reminded her of Queenstown.
However, before she even thinks about future travel plans, Miss Cournane said she was going to spend the summer here working as a tour guide for Serious Fun on the Kawarau River.
