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Wanaka Slideshow
Wanaka
Travel Blogs from Wanaka, New Zealand
Mt. Aspiring National Park
... with be leading our three day hike into Mount Aspiring National Park. She seemed very nice and experienced. Set out Friday morning from Wanaka and drove about an hour through the river valley to the edge of the National Park. Our first day wasn't too ...
Glorious Wanaka
... knows us probably knows that we’re mountain people at heart. Well, driving over Cardrona Pass between Queenstown and Wanaka immediately reminded us of that fact. From the alpine vegetation--similar to our experience in type, yet new in ...
Wanaka
... cos it only seats 80 people. You sit in either an armchair or settee (or even a Morris Minor) to watch the film. Another must was Wanaka's Puzzle World which has an outdoor maze. Not as easy as it looked and we spent an hour trying to complete it. The ...
Wine & Recreation
... the Oakridge Resort about 3Km north of the Lake. We traveled back on the Queenstown road towards the Airport to visit the Wanaka Transport & Toy Museum. We can honestly say that we have never experienced such a collection of toys and artifacts from ...
Stunning
Well the west coast is beautiful. Its so hard to drive more than 2 minutes without stopping for a photo. First day was spent mainly driving but stopping at various beaches, walks and small pretty towns. However great the scenery was the best bit ...
South Island
... hotel after the party and headed to Franz Joseph which is where the Glaciers are and is what most travellers want to see in New Zealand. We stopped at 'The bushmans centre' which was a museum/cafe that is meant to give insight into the west coast ...
Lake Wanaka
... , I haven't updated this in ages, but I have been on the run without much time for the internet. I am having a great time in New Zealand and have been doing all sorts of crazy things. On the north island I went abseiling and rafting in a cave and saw glow ...
Wanaka
Hey guys. Have done sooo much this week that i dont have time to write about it all. So im gonna have to be brief. So, Wanaka...Went to a puzzle them park. Was fun. Huge maze. The girls took much longer than me 2 get out. Had a cool room that makes 1 ...
Wanaka
Dec 19, 2011
Getting lost in Wanaka
After our long trip back up from the South we decided to have some fun in Wanaka so we visited Puzzle World. When we got in there we immediately set about trying to solve various puzzles confident that we would find them easy - we didn't solve any of ...
Wanaka Forest Rave
... my brothers car (thanks for the loan marc!) seen as my van was still kaput at this stage... We went first into a pub in wanaka called shooters for some food and a few drinks. Most of the resta the crew were there at the same time, just a couple ...
Beautiful Lake Wanaka
Shar: Lake Wanaka is yet another beautiful spot in New Zealand. We arrived yesterday afternoon, in time to visit an interesting place called Puzzling World and to call up our friends, Jan and Wayne, whom we met during our first week in New Zealand at ...
Fishing in a gorgeous spot!
Shar: Again I sit while Joe fishes. We are at a most beautiful spot (aren't they all here!) along the Haast River on the way north to Fox Glacier and the west coast. The sun is shining, the sky is blue and I am enjoying the moment. This morning we ...
The West-Coast of the South Island
... who has had 2 previous mentions in this blog and I did say she wasn't getting another one anytime soon. So now I am in Wanaka for a night. And tomorrow it is off to Queenstown, where I have a strong inkling that things are about to get even messier... ...
A taster of New zealand
This is just a few pics so you dont forget us as we are way behind on the full travel pod. ...
Oh, Lovely Wanaka
... to go on a glacier landing by helicopter, but the weather was not cooperating. So we left town for Queenstown. All in all Wanaka was a beautiful place, as long as you arrived before 8 pm. It also has great skiing in the area, but ski season ...
Bungee pictures are up!
... pictures and hopefully I'll get to a place with faster internet connection soon. Although I'm not to interested in leaving Wanaka, the town I'm currently, in at the moment. Wanaka is a small town situated right on the lake and ...
Sunny Skiing
... . We setteled in our room which we also had to our selfs and decided it was about time we had the famous New Zealand lamb. We agreed the most economical way was to buy our own and make it our selfs. The hostel was well facilitated and ...
A rainy day
Due to the miserable rain outside we spent most the day in the hostel in our dorm planning our next few stops & looking for work online. We have decided to go to Fox Glacier and Punakaiki and because there are no supermarkets here we thought we had ...
Wanaka
... . I could and will do it again and again and again. It was such an incredible experience and over far too quickly. Photos will follow shortly but for now here are a few photos of Wanaka, one of my favourite and most beautiful areas in New ...
Home Sweet Home
On the way back to Queenstown today we went on a tour to Milford Sound! It was 7 hours on the bus for an hour and a half cruise but the views were pretty spectacular.. it was misty and raining and we got slightly wet but we saw millions of waterfalls and ...
back inland we go
... out of our way, we decided that we were not going to befriend the albatross of NZ on this trip, and headed back inland to Wanaka, via the fruit-growing and wine regions. The driving got more and more striking as we got further inland. We had long ...
The Glaciers & Wanaka
... were amazing but I only have photos of Fox Glacier up. I'll add Franz Joseph photos when back in the states. Spent most of the day driving and viewing Glaciers. Very nice drive but quite long before we arrived in Wanaka that ...
Rain rain go away........
... visit Puzzle-World and then got the dreadful news regarding the earthquake! Our original plan was to head back to Christchurch mid-week before going North so we are extremely grateful to have missed the drama. Such a sad day in New Zealand ...
puzzled
there is not much to do in wanake. there is a lake there, and of course there is puzzle world!! it's kind of fun where they have all these exhibits which are meant to be a bit "puzzling" the funniest one of course is the one where you ...
From Puzzles to Peaks
After a late breakfast we traveled just outside Wanaka to Puzzle World which is a combination of the very difficult maze to the intriguing illusions. We got round most of the maze but seemed to miss out one of the Towers. Having a leisurely walk ...