Lakeview Studios Wanaka

... in Rome...). Wanaka itself was fairly quiet, but it is set in a valley (good wine producing area apparently) with an picture postcard backdrop of snow capped mountains and wonderfully peaceful (enormous) lakes. The hundred or so near identical photos will hopefuly give a flavour of what its like. Would definitely have went out fishing or jet skiing if staying longer, but it's onto Queenstown tomorrow.

... 8217;t theater seating that you will experience here. What you will find instead are couches, recliners, large cushions for everyone to sit on. They even had an old VW bug with comfy chairs so you can feel like you’re at the drive in. It’s quite the evening event in Wanaka and Gillian and I enjoyed our wine, ice cream and comfy couch in the 2nd row as we watched Michael Jackson’s last days.

... big maze took us about 45 minutes to complete with lots of going up and down stairs and backtracking. Josh & Kate wanted to do it by themselves, so they took off running in different directions. After we'd finished at 'Puzzle World' we drove into the township of Wanaka, which reminded me a lot of Taupo - very pretty, very expensive looking tourist shops and kinda fake too. We let the kids have a play in the park beside the lake, but didn't bother looking at any of the shops.

... liegt recht weit suedlich und hat grossartige Skigebiete) letztens gab es in den Bergen sogar schon Schnee, sah wunderschoen aus, aber man hat die kalte Luft leider auch gleich hier unten gespuert. Da ich ja leider nur Schlitten fahren kann und beschlossen habe, dass ich beide Beide in Asien noch gut brauchen kann, werde ich auf das Wintersporterlebnis hier wohl lieber verzichten und wieder ...

... trip to the visitor center in Haast, we entered the pass into Otago province. We stopped for short hike to the Thunder Creek falls.  It was a nice leg stretch - about as much as we could handle a day after Fox Glacier.             On and on we drove, hundreds of kilometers. We reached lake Wanaka, but wound around to another lake then back to Wanaka down the highway. In the city of Wanaka, we decided to stop ...

... The winding roads didn't suit him! We eventually got on to straighter roads and stopped at Bruce Bay, a beautiful blue bay, only to find Macca Pacca had been at work building piles of stones. Sadly Steven was asleep by this point! We eventually arrived at Lake Hawea where we pitched camp for the next two nights. The site was by the edge of the lake and ...

... else in the world...having the alcohol fuelling rugby tournament in town didn't help either. Any adrenaline-inducing activity you can think of is for sale here. We stuck to luging, which was great fun again (particularly seeing Kevin's competitiveness as he tried unsuccessfully to beat Michael). The girls and I also went jet boating and we loved it. The driver took us up to 60 or 70 km/hr in a mere 10 cm depth of water and then turned ...

... that pretty soon we were going to really struggle to summon the energy to be able to climb 5 hours up through the mountains to see the bloody glacier! <br><br> <br><br>Thankfully after about another 20 mins on ...