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Wanaka Slideshow
Wanaka
Travel Blogs from Wanaka, New Zealand
Quality Time
This is a top pick! ... was the first of the National 'Smoking Ban' which basically means no smoking indoors. The only legal 'indoor place' you can smoke in New Zealand now is in the comfort of your own home. One local shop owner was telling us how the liquor stores even have ...
Stunning Scenery
This is a top pick! ... probably doubled the expected journey time and rolled into the 'one horse town' of Glenorchy at lunch time (which is any time in New Zealand - 'it's all good'). We had a leisurely pub meal and I was happily restored to my status quo as I swiftly sank ...
Feeding the Chicken
This is a top pick! 'Time is it Runtney?' 'What?' "You heard!' Just got back from a short but pleasant break in Wanaka with the Chike. She's been up there for the last few days, having had some free time. It's her birthday on Tuesday, nearly twenty-two whole years ...
Lets go to the lake to feed the dolphins
This is a top pick! Hello everyone, Wanaka itself is a town of little interest, but in the winter Wanaka becomes a big tourist destination due to the great skiing opportunities at Mt Aspiring National Park and the Pisa Range Ski Areas. During the summer ...
Random(s)
This is a top pick! ... into a series of random encounters... ...Like yesterday. An early start and a full day on the mountain. This time over to Wanaka, to 'Treble Cone'. A word on Treble Cone: 'TC' is the largest ski resort in the South Island and boasts some of ...
Beauty bound.
This is a top pick! ... the river and I fished... again. The next couple of days we spent skiing during the day and enjoying the atmosphere of Wanaka town. The mountain roads had become easier and we weren't afraid of them as much even though most people talking them ...
A nicer version of Queenstown!
This is a top pick! ... ). They weren't coming in until 9 so we ate our meal as slowly as possible to see them and when they did arrive we didn't recognise a soul! Drove out of Wanaka and north between Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea and found a quite spot to spend ...
Wanaka Gone-aka
This is a top pick! ... the lake it borders, but several things left my experience there wanting. It did, however, signal a new stage in my New Zealand travels. When we first arrived it was 7:30 p.m. and dark, and we started looking for a hostel. A snowboarding festival had just ...
Life in Wanaka - Pre Ski Season
This is a top pick! ... make a few friends: ex-cleaners from the campsite (all now retired from the cleaning profession, but most still residing in Wanaka); colleagues from New World; even our cleaning boss who has taken it upon himself to teach us to ski. Besides the usual ...
Pit-Stop
This is a top pick! ... . Haast was about as exciting as Baz Vegas but achieves it's purpose well - a much needed rest stop and recharge before heading further South and more inland. So tomorrow we're off to Wanaka, and according to our driver 'Wozza', we're in for a ...
A puzzling time in Wanaka
This is a top pick! ... time I updated, it's been a while (I'm back dating these, it's actually been 2 months since I last updated). We arrived in Wanaka around dinner time and it was raining. I reached into the back of the car to get my waterproof jacket and realised it ...
That Does Impress Us Much
This is a top pick! ... site number 29 for a few more days in our favouritest and most perfectly proportioned and positioned town in all of New Zealand. That afternoon we dined early on burgers cooked outside in the park's sheltered barbie area while rain continued to fall ...
YES, MORE SNOW!!!
This is a top pick! ... weather and do the dive. To see him in the plane, go to www.skydivenz.com , click on view my picture and go to JUNE 19th. I think hes the first there. It looks so funny! Anyway, now onto the best place in New Zealand, Queenstown!! Jack and Andrew ...
Puzzle Puzzle Puzzle Puzzle Kiwi
This is a top pick! ... Possibly realised he couldn't afford to do anything decent in this country. We carried on up north stopping at Puzzle World in Wanaka. It has some pretty cool stuff. One of those leaning rooms. And a hall of faces and some other impressive ...
Lunch at Wanaka
This is a top pick! Left Queenstown at 10am after having the luxury of 2 showers in 2 days. Headed over to Wanaka for a short stop to see Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World and to have some lunch. We went in the Illusion Rooms first and all the rooms were good but the ...
You.................Arrived in Wanaka!
This is a top pick! ... up at the snow capped mountains which were just so gorgeous. Soo enough, we found ourselves driving alongside Lake Wanaka, the fourth largest lake in New Zealand, wow it is so beautiful here! From Lake Wanaka the road goes inland for a bit and then on ...
Skiing Is Like Making Love To A Beautiful Woman
This is a top pick! ... accurately its outskirts and a couple of interesting sounding semi-museums. Our first stop-off was at Wanaka Airport, an obvious choice for the New Zealand Fighter Pilot's Museum, an interesting (honestly) display of old photos and memoirs that led to a ...
Weird and Wonderful Wanaka
This is a top pick! We woke up and split the camping ground area at about 06:45 before the warden arrived. There were signs up saying he came round in the early morning to collect fees but we know that none of the gypsies paid anything at all. We are essentially Gypsies ...
What New Zealand is all about
This is a top pick! Nothing much happened today. We had to drive 300 kms to Wananka. Not what you want when your ill. It didn't help that Monique stopped the bus every 5 minutes for Photo stops. I did get some good photo's ...
Adrenalin time
This is a top pick! ... the thrill I was expecting. As it was a glorious day we went for a walk up one of the smaller hills surrounding Wanaka before heading off to Glenorchy. To get there you have another stunning drive along the side of Lake Wakatipu with gorgeous craggy ...
Just chilling by the lakes
This is a top pick! ... locals go to for their holidays, in order to avoid what nearby Queenstown has become (see the next entry for Queenstown...) I arrived in Wanaka in the afternoon, and after getting settled in, set off to explore a little. My plan was to walk out of ...
Wanaka
This is a top pick! ... getting soaked and eaten alive by sandflies. Cruised on to Wanaka and pulled up at Wanaka backpackers cool place overlooking Wanaka lake (funnily enough). Great hostel with a big lounge and window overlooking the lake from the top of a steep hill. ...
Mooontains mooontains mooontains and other things!
This is a top pick! ... a big hurry but its one of the things that makes NZ so unspoilt. On the way we stopped at Haast, calling in at Wanaka for 10 minutes. The journey from Wanaka was sublime, really beautifull mountains and lakes. At Haast we couldn't even manage to get ...
Crowning Glory
This is a top pick! ... walk. The monument at the top confirmed that we had done well to reach the summit. This was the highest road in New Zealand, a route used a couple of hundred years ago for the gold diggers, and we now had the downhill to enjoy. Before that we ...
Wanaka
This is a top pick! Alex: As has been typical of our time in New Zealand as soon as we got in the car to move on to the next town the sun came out. Fortunately it gave us another chance to see Mount Cook as we passed through Fox. We stopped once again at Matherson Lake ...
Life in Wanaka - THE SKI SEASON!
This is a top pick! ... . Lucky us! The views from several of the runs are fantastic - snow-capped mountain ridges framing the valleys of Queenstown and Wanaka in either direction. So far our trusty van has been ferrying us, plus ski-buddies Laura and Bob, up the winding, ...
Saar' how you doing?
This is a top pick! ... . Gota to consider the logic of choosing the cheapest option when doing something like a skydive. Anyway the bus to Wanaka was just a short hop for an hour arriving at the small lake side resort appearing more busy than Queenstown to which it ...
Lakes, Mountains & Swing Bridges
This is a top pick! Today we headed off to a small place called Makarora. On the way we stopped off at Lake Matheson which is also known as the mirror lake. From here you can get a photo of the lake with a perfect reflection of the mountains in it. It was a little windy ...
Return Road Trip
This is a top pick! ... mishap! Auckland Back to Auckland, where Auntie Pamela and Uncle Chris welcomed us back into their home for our last week in New Zealand. That was last Friday. By Sunday morning we'd sold our beautiful van for the asking price (more pesos to buy ...
Lakes and puzzles
This is a top pick! ... luckily I was convinced by a friend I'd spent the day with to hop on the shuttle bus to Lake Matheson. The lake is probably New Zealand's most famous view, since on a clear day it is smooth as glass and the mirrored reflections of Mts Tasman and Cook are ...