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Nelson, Franz Josef and Wanaka
1st April - 7th April 09
Got to Nelson not much here but this is where the centre of New Zealand is, we went to try and find the hill where this actually was, but could find it so ended up back at the Hostel for beer tasting…J at the end was a prize and yep I won it…LA LA LA!!!! Lol it was a night out in Queenstown (bar crawl)
I was supposed to go to Abel Tasman (which is supposed to be stunning, but ended up getting tonsilitus and couldn't move much so had to miss out on that! Never mind will have something else to come back for!
We leave Nelson and head towards Westport not much here but was a goods place to go and see the doc!We only stayed here one night and headed towards Punakaiki (pancake rocks) these were strange, they actually looked like pancakes all stacked up on top of each other, was really cool. We stopped of at the Lake mahinapuia - didn't get to see this but this was the night of the fancy dress and the theme was represent your country - the lad who won went as the Welsh Dragon - looked class! Lol well done Rob!
Our next stop is Franz Josef - all the way down it was raining, the weather wasn't good at all L and the hike actually got called off coz we wouldn't have been able to cross the river… we got a little shuttle bus upto the glacier and hopped over the fence and got as close as we could to the glacier! All was safe and the view was amazing! Just a shame we couldn't get closer! L
Wanaka - ah what a stunning place - I could quite happily live here…the first night there we all had a go on karaoke! Wahoo gotta love it! We took a walk around the lake and the views were incredible - snow capped mountains - I just wanted to get on my board and go up into the mountains! Will def be coming back here! We ended up going to the cinema - which was totally different to the normal cinemas at home - this was only a little one but instead of the nasty seats you normally get they were SOFAs ah!!!!!!!!! They were great felt like I was watching the film back at home in the lounge…all I needed was the cats and dogs and mum falling asleep with her head nodding back and forward and it would have topped it off! (sorry mum! Lol)
If there was one place I would definitely come back to it would be Wanaka!!!
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