Day 4 - Wanaka

Stayed at Wanaka Backpakas at Wanaka. Wanaka is a very small town and there was nothing much to explore the night we got there. I liked most of the backpackers we stayed over the week in South Island. We changed accomodation every night!!

Where we slept.

Had dinner at the benches. We ended up with too much food and decided to feed the cat. The cat was really shy! It will come stealthily (as if we cant see it is coming), stole the food and ran away ery fast!! I put the food on my hand and it still came to get it off my hand. But when i tried to touch it, it ran away.

Where we ate. A peek at Lake Wanaka. We decided to go tramping in the morning. I searched up for the meaning of tramping. It means a long and tiring journey on foot. INDEED! what a brillant definition

Initially, the road was flat and easy. Air was cold and we were all stacked up in our winter coats. Quite a number of people were there for morning walks too and we wonder how come they are all in shorts and t-shirts. They stared at us too.And the road got steep after some time... And never got flat again! Slope climbing all the way.We were told that we'll get an awesome view of Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawae when we get up there. But we climbed and climbed and thats all we see along the way.. No water bodies in sight. Got stressed.. too much effort and energy is at stake. Very scared we'll see only a small puddle of water when we get up there. When we finally got up there. Argg.. Not too bad. We were expecting something really really awesome though. we spotted this little platform and everybody had to do a different pose on it. I tried to make it look yoga like. But it doesnt look quite right. Is it the shoes? I don't know what is this. The guys directed this pose.They're not going to get away asking us to do something on the tiny platform and they themselves not doing anything. On the way down, the boys saw sheeps and wanted to catch one.And so they ran up the hill to surround the sheeps.

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The sheeps ran away too.

Next up, Puzzling World! The name speaks for itself. It is an optical illusion kind of place.

Spot me!

The clock goes the other way. Where clockwise is anti clockwise

The roman toilet. Haha.

Solving some puzzles. Cant solve any!! And we looked like old folks in a old folks home doing puzzles. Haha.

EHH??

Water running UPHILL

A normal looking room

And then I shrank!

And I grew again!

All the optical illusions gave me a headache. Literally. As if thats not enough, there is the MAZE. We were supposed to go to 4 different corners before we can go to the finishing point. So we split into groups and got lost!

After the yellow corner, WE GOT LOST! Stuck in the maze for a super long time. Cant get to the last corner. We thought of climbing the fence but they put a sigh saying "climbing is cheating" ROARRRR.

Lost Look. Haha.. I think we nailed it!

There was a sign somewhere saying it is one of the most complicated maze in the world. People talk an average of 1.5hrs to get out and walked 3-5km. Haha.. My god. I think i did walk at least 3km and possibly been to every corner there possibly existed in the maze. All of us were hungry while finding our way out and cannot find the way out! That bad. hahaha..

The stupid green corner

A portion of the maze.

FINALLY.

Lastly, some pictures of Lake Wanaka for you.

Day 3. Queenstown

Arrived at Queenstown at night. Most of the stalls are closed by the time we finished our dinner. Queenstown is supposed to be a happening place where you can do alot of activities. But we did most of the things during our Easter break already. All that sky diving, white water rafting etc.

The surroundings of our accomodation looked great

Kind of dark. But our window is our emergency exit! Haha.. So cool. We can just jump out.

Autumn streets. Autumn is a lovely season.

First Up, we went wine tasting early in the morning! Haha.. The boys wanted to do bungy. so we thought some alcohol might help... How the shop operates:

• You will be given a card and you can top up whatever amount of money you want to.


• A vast variety of wine is available for testing. All of them kept in some dispenser cum chiller kind of thing. All wines have different pricing.


• You can choose among sample portion, half glass or full glass. Different pricing applies.


• The card can be topped up anytime and remaining balance will be refunded.

Sounds like a good deal huh! Can try all that expensive wine for a few bucks, just for the fun of it. But come to think of it, it wasnt cheap. It is just expensive wine made affordable, for testing. Mummy/Daddy/Da jie, I think you will like it there! This is the place I want to bring you to if we ever go to Queenstown.

Nice and cosy.

This ice wine is pretty good.

Hmmmm....

Hmmmmm hmmmmm! Cheese platter. I realise the one i liked best was cheddar. What a common type of cheese to like best.

Scenic Queenstown.

After that we went for Luge. Before we can get to the place, we had to take a gondola up. Gondola is just... cable car.

At the top of the mountain/hill. Sky looks grey and threatening!

Another view. Gives me the Lord of The Rings feeling.

Geared up for Luge.

The trackHow it works!After Luge, the boys braced themselves for Bungy. They tried to psycho us into doing it too but they werent too convincing. Haha..

Felt scared for them!

Prelude. 43m high. Water is clear and blue. No worries if you fall in! Heroes of the Day:

James.

Ian

Even the toilet signs have a bungy theme. Cute.

Rest of the day is spent on driving again...

Havent been updating because I was trying to catch up with some work. Had my jap oral and mid semester test last thursday. Listening was bad! By the time I can make out the first sentence the dialogue was at the 3rd sentence already! Haha... Well well.. We'll see how that went.