In our journey from Queenstown towards Christchurch, we took the route of SH89 passing through Wanaka and then passing SH8 and Lake Tekapo, and then get into the 'north side' of the New Zealand i.e. SH1 to Christchurch.
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| Lake Tekapo, New Zealand |
For this long route and quite tired, we decide to take a rest for one night stay in Wanaka. Actually The distance from Queenstown to Wanaka was not too far, it’s only 71 km and takes an hour by car. Apparently it was very challenging and wonderful.
When we exit from queenstown, we will pass the wide of low lands which the area planted with only grass and sheep-farming. After that it will start to climb and crossed the mountains. The road will continue uphill and meandering, it will make small car get trouble so don't try rent car like city car, it's quite fun for us with driving a cruiser car. Overtaking another car while on this route seems quite difficult, because in addition the maximum speed only allowed 100km per hour, there is not many straight way to overtake.
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| Wanaka City |
So after we passing through from the mountains, the road will be relatively straight, although it was still up and down to arrive at the wanaka town. We use GPS looking for the motel. We didn’t booked online, so we get walk-in price at $90 per night. The rooms was big and equipped with kitchen set as well as a balcony with direction to the beautiful of Lake Wanaka.
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| Lake Wanaka, New Zealand |
After we finished check-in at motel, we directly towards a museum of famous tourist attractions were here Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World. The location is just 2km from the downtown, it was easy to find it by looking at a map of the GPS. The entry ticket was $13 per person includes ticket maze. A collection of stuff and the room that gives the illusion optics, also for example, a row of prints faces that give the impression of a 3 dimensional protruding out, when in fact the mold on the wall is a prominent backward. And if you standing in the middle of the room it will have effect as if the eyes of the figures follows the movement of our bodies, it was so horror.
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| Roman Toilets Wanaka |
Then there are the Roman toilets, if it photographed from a certain distance it will look as if I was sitting on the toilet with the other Roman, but this is a painting on the wall.
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| Puzzling World, Wanaka |
On the front page there was a 'landmark' of the Puzzling World and it shaped Leaning Tower, well the photos people here generally attach to the same as the standard style at the leaning tower of Pisa in Italy, tried to hold by hand.
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| Learning Tower, Wanaka |
In the courtyard behind it there are 3 dimensional maze. The maze that we visited in the Hampton Court at United Kingdom was nothing compared to this. The usual maze just a road full of trap and an impasse, but this was add the over-bridge which make more complex. The total length of this wood-walled maze if traversed all is 1.5 km. There are 4 pieces of the post in the corner marked with different colors. There are 2 challenge that we can choose, which easily we have to get to the road and reach the fourth post this at any order, and the more difficult challenge is we have to reach into the post-four with the specified colour sequence. That surely we could only reach 3 post by order of random, and give up.
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| Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World |
Actually the Wanaka can be a base to reach Mt. Aspiring National Park for those who want to do the tramping or glacier walk, you could also take day trip to Lake Hawea to enjoy beautiful lake, so plan it previously and having much time if you want satisfied playing in the south.
The downtown itself arguably very small, and in the area along the edge of the lake are available lot of car parking (free 120 minutes) so enjoy this quiet lake.
If you want shopping for daily necessities, there are supermarkets such as New World so we can buy a snack or breakfast.
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| New World Shop Wanaka |
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