Rydges Lakeside

... photographic opportunities. Mount Cook and it's surrounding snow capped ranges looked spectacular from the air. After checking into the Rydges Lakeside resort, we bought ski gloves, goggles and thermal socks and pre-booked the following days ski-lesson ...

... car after the spa. (The spring was quite helpful afterall!) Poor papa had to continue driving. After pacing back and forth the lakeside, we finally settled at Burgerfuel, a fast food restaurant, for lunch. Lake Taupo is the largest lake in NZ. There are ...

... to make it to Milford Sound and back in one day, which we did.  Right away, it was beautiful.  We drove on a lakeside road along Lake Wakatipu past Queenstown toward the town of Te Anau.  It was twisty, turny, and terrific.  We stopped ...