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Wanaka Slideshow
Wanaka
Travel Blogs from Wanaka, New Zealand
Anyone for a Skydive Before Lunch?
I've been very bad with the blog of late because I honestly haven't had the time to do any updates at all. New Zealand is just amazing and there is so much to see and do! The thing is I still don't have time to tell the story of the last two weeks, so ...
Mark goes skydiving
We went to Lake Wanaka, partly because everyone said it was really nice, but mostly because Mark had his heart set on doing his skydive there. We arrived with the skydive booked for the following day. When we arrived it was a really nice hot ...
Wanaka
... saw Mount Cook, Mount Aspiring National Park, all the surrounding lakes and just beautiful countryside in general! Also did a massive walk in Wanaka which nearly crippled us both - and on the way up we saw a man who was Ian McKellen's twin - he was ...
Skydive Day
... be wooed. Clare, Byron, Helen and Tony walked towards town to get an ice cream but were steered towards a local bar Wanaka HQ formerly Shooters for a couple of jugs as we only had 20 dollars between us. On the way home we booked our Indian at ...
skydive!!!
... . Weeh det var saa godt! 60 sekunders frit fald. 2: Jeg sprang ud over en flod i 134 meters hoejde med en gummiline om bener'n ! Det var saa fedt. Nevis bungey jump det hoejeste i New Zealand. Jeg var lidt nervoes, hvilket man nok ser paa ...
Lake Wanaka
we spent a night in milford sound before driving to lake wanaka, north east of queenstown. wanaka was a sweet little town at the foot of a gorgeous, lake at the base of the mountains. we spent one night there. in the morning we went round an art ...
WANAKA
Wanaka was rad. Beautiful lakefront town. Very mellow. Met some good peeps and went bar hopping, of course. Went to a vintage movie theater filled with bus seats, loveseats, and a volkswagon convertable bug that we sat in while ...
Wanaka
... . Nach einigen Stunden Fahrt durch wunderschoene bergige Landschaft, vorbei am tuerkis-blau schimmernden Lake Hawea, erreichen wir gegen 2 Uhr Wanaka, ein auch von Kiwis heiss geliebter Urlaubsort, sowohl im Sommer wie auch im Winter. Joerdis und ich sind ...
Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World
Whilst in Wanaka, we made a beeline for Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World. This boasts the world's first "modern-styled" Great Maze, made out of wood and running over two levels. To complete the maze you either need to find each of the four coloured ...
A puzzling world indeed
... , as was the collection of bizarre art work and quirky toilet seats! Afterwards we made our way to Queenstown, although our progress was slowed slightly by an unexpected influx of sheep on the road. It's as much New Zealand traffic as we have seen so ...
Watch Out!!
... still here, still happy. I do miss travelling though. As a temporary cure for my urge to pack my bags, I decided to pay Wanaka a visit this week. I caught the bus over there and checked myself into a hostel I'd stayed in a few months back with Sinead ...
SKY DIVING!!
OK- Mom- sorry I didn't tell you first- thought it would be best to wait until I was safe! but SKY DIVING over the mountains was insane! Jumped from a PLANE at 12,000 Feet- free falling at 120 mph and 180 feet per second- thats about 45 seconds of FREE ...
Rocky mountain high
... Focker in Meet the Fockers, decided that would be unnessary. "we'll just drive slowly" I quipped. "Yes, but you don't know New Zealand roads," our woman said darkly. Well it turns out what she meant by that is that the road sometimes throws itself at ...
Queenstown to Christchurch
... been the front wheels! another 20 minutes later we set off for 3 minutes and were told it was safe to remove them. Great. Anyway we got some great photos of from the top and from Lake Wanaka, aswell as various other stops like lake Topeka and Mount ...
Wanaka
... day of travel we departed from Charlie B's at 9:00am. This day was a day of mostly travel but it was definitely interesting. New Zealand is very new to all of us at this point so the littlest things have seemed to amuse us! We had about 6 hours ahead of ...
lakes, waterfalls and mountains
... 's who used to wander over the West Coast searching for Greenstone. The Haast is one of the most remote wilderness areas in New Zealand. And as the landscape consists of rainforest, wetlands, sand dunes and shingle beaches it is described as one of the ...
Wanaka
At Wanaka it was time to get away from hostels for a bit and visit Carla, a friend from Bristol who's from New Zealand. Not sharing a room with loads of other people is always a good thing and Wanaka would also be the start of my `Kiwi immersion ` ...
Wanaka
... ostern gehts vllt weiter. Wird etz auch zeit dass wir wieder bissl geld machen um uns a hostel zu leisten. Seit ich hier in wanaka is jeder tag wie man sichs wuenscht: warm, sonnig und blauer himmel. Aber wenn die sonne mal weg is wirds unglaublich kalt ...
Freefallin'
... kill an hour or two in. There is a really good local museum and a restored Chinese settlement where the first Chinese people in New Zealand lived in these tiny huts as they panned for gold. After Arrowtown we headed back on the road to Wanaka and just on ...
Lake Wanaka at night
The day of my arrival to Wanaka I got out to a little walk on the side of the lake with two Israeli girls. The mean purpose of the walk was fooling around and taking weird photos. ...
Wanaka -> Te Anau
... these places: (which we didn't) Puzzling World Lake Wanaka Weather permitting you may want to hire kayaks on Lake Wanaka - great fun. Central Otago District (Luggate -> Terras -> Cromwell -> Clyde -> ) Lunch was at a great ...
allo from wanaka
... least I can still take pics and I didn't lose any. I was fretting quite a bit about that. Today I took a beautiful bus ride to Wanaka, this town on Lake Wanaka, funny enough. The drive was all wind-y and through mountains and beside lakes and rivers. ...
Wanaka - Aghhhhhhhh
... ! Jumped out and started free-fall with some awesome views over the mountains - including Mount Cook and Mount Aspiring, Lake Wanaka, and the World Heritage Mt Aspiring National Park, all while falling at 200kph! We had people taking video's and photo's ...
Puzzling World!
drove back from milford late monday night and made it up to wanaka. got woken 6.30am some guy moving us and some campervans from the car park! went to a place called puzzling world, giant maze and illusion rooms, it was wicked!! drove up to fox glacier ...
Wanaka Rodeo Day
... arena and a compere with his fall guy…….now for those of you who know him you will have to admit that this is New Zealand's David Rose (Rosie from Lowestoft and Yarmouth Rugby Club). We got home at about 6pm had a walk to the lake with Samson, ...
Paradiso Cinema and Indian meal.
... !! After the cinema Todd and Cody went home and Paul, Jane, Clare, Byron and us went for an Indian meal at a relatively new Wanaka restaurant called The Spice House. We ordered our meal, had a couple of bottles of wine, and I thought "not enough ...
Happy New Year from New Zealand
... bring you everything that you hope for but most importantly good health and happiness. We hope you set some realistic New Year Resolutions and keep to them Lots of love Tony, Helen and Clare xxxxx No more news today. Tomorrow off to the Wanaka Rodeo. ...
Fox Glacier/Wanaka
... and hills surrounding it, and creates a really cool atmosphere. Then it's just a case of following the road until you reach Wanaka, which is a little lakeside resort. It was really pretty here, as the lake is surrounded by lots of snow-topped mountains. ...