After a VERY cold night (we wouldn't recommend sleeping next to glaciers!), we woke to the sound of tapping in the bonet of our car, only to look up to see a kea bird running around on the car! However, rather than shooing it away, we encouraged it to stay so that we could take photos of it, hehe! A bit of a hilly walking & skipping on rocks over rivers & we were greeted by a huge glacier. It was different to the Tasman Valley glacier that we had previo...

Checked out of our motel at 10 am prompt and headed north to Wanaka and Puzzling World. Firstly we had a go at the Maze that has two, yes TWO levels to it but got rained off so we headed into illusions rooms. We were greeted by a wall of different holograms in the first room. From Clowns to girls with guns they were truly marvelous. Then we headed into a room that was at a 15 degree angle from horizontal. Immediately we both felt sick like we had been too many l...