Sunday, April 1, 2012

Queenstown and home

The weather continued to improve as we left Te Anau and headed to Queenstown, a beautiful city in the mountains. A lot of the areas around were very similar in look to the interior of BC, the Okanagan and Kamloops.


Queenstown is situated on Lake Wakatipu and hosts skiing on local mountains. We headed up on the gondola to see the city, lake and the Remarkables (a mountain range that one may see in Lord of the Rings. Apparently a host of areas around Q town were filmed.) There is a bungy jump and a luge for the adventurous. We enjoyed a nice visit with Jenny, who was on my first trek in Nepal in 2004. We were entertained by her new baby daughter Olivia, 2 year old Hayden and Jen's Mom.





Well, as all good things come to an end, we boarded our flight back to Auckland on a beautiful sunny day and the views from the plane were incredible. We actually got to see the north peninsula of the south island and Mt. Taranaki, an old volcano which, due to heavy rains we did not get to visit when in the Lake Taupo area.








Back in Auckland we had a whole day to head back to the National Museum where they have a lot of the Maori culture as well as geological history of NZ. It included a house which you sit in and there is a simulated volcanic eruption with a shock blast that hits the house violently.







Thanks for reading, hoping you enjoyed our view of this great place. Also, thanks to those who sent emails and followed along our journey. We calculated 1400 kms of driving on the North island, 1800 kms on the South island for a total 3200 kms so we covered a lot of the country, but feel there is much more there for another time. 

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