Wanaka Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

i left franz in the morning after defrosting my car and scraping a good thick layer of ice off the windscreen and started my journey to Wanaka it should take about 4 hours but as i stopped so many times to walk and take photos it took me all day. i first stopped at bruce bay by the sea where people hav stacked hundreads of rocks up on the shores...

Most of the time while i was in Wanaka there was very low cloud covering the mountains, luckily on the last evening the clouds clearing in time for sunset, which made the lake look much prettier than before.

I went along to a place called Puzzling World! Its a entertainment place which has lots of optical illusions and a bit maze. The aim...

After a relaxing night we saunterned into Queenstown bright and early for a MASSIVE breakfast at VuDu and then to check in for our jet boat and heli rides.

Unfortunately due to the weather Heli's weren't operating up to the remarkables today so we managed to check in for a wet Jetboat ride that afternoon but had to cancel the helicopter r...

And now onto the more exciting stuff! I finally made it to my destination--the one place on the west coast where practically every tourist stops-- Franz Josef and Fox glaciers. This is the one thing in NZ that I had already planned to see before coming here since my co-workers at Camp Roberts had given me money to do a glacier walk as a going aw...

Arguably the most famous Kiwi in all of the world passed away this morning. Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Everest (along with the Sherpa Tenzing) and the first to drive a motor vehicle to the South Pole, dead at the age of 88. According to many, he exemplified all that New Zealanders stand for; determination, strength, and the abili...

Quietly leaving early trying to sneak out like a ninja but being more like a Sumo bumping into almost everything possible on the way I wished the guys luck who were going to jump out of a perfectly good airplane today while I would wait to the cheaper Taupo alternative. Gota to consider the logic of choosing the cheapest option when doing someth...

Rich and Gord went climbing, Fi did washing so we are no longer smelly - yipee! Climbing superb, single pitch sports climbs from Grades 14 - 17. Grade 17 was true vertical, small handholds and very little for feet (good job Rich has small feet!). Gord hasn't climbed for 6 months but was awesome. Guide had very little to do apart from taking a fe...

I drove on through the mountain area of the Southern Alps and enjoyed the great views. Now I've entered the part of New Zealand that everyone is talking about: green hills, mountains and lots of sheep and a Kea here and there. My book said sheep were the animals most common in New Zealand. In fact there are more sheep in New Zealand than human p...

Hello all, Today we drove from Franz Joseph to Wanaka. ALong the way, we stopped at Lake Matheson. It was a really still lake in the morning and got a great view/reflection of Mount Cook. It was also really cold. To warm up, I did the 1.5 hour walk around the lake. That was a good one, as we got much better views of Mt. Cook than just the lookou...

Jim: Well after a pretty long bus trip from Farnz Josef we arrived in Wanaka. The bus ride was one of the more impressive journeys i have ever been on, although we did seem to be stopping every hour much to our annoyance!! We did however see some pretty impressive scenery. We stopped at Knight s point which was a big rocky out crop sticking out ...