LOCATION: Makaora, South Island, New Zealand, north of Queenstown
WEATHER: Partly cloudy. Highs in 60s
We drove about 25 miles to popular Queenstown. It really is pretty, situated between mountains and a big lake. It is the home of daredevil spurts like bungy jumping, sky diving, rock climbing, and jet rafting. The streets were overflowing with tourists, mostly young people. Lots iof neat restaurants and shops selling outdoor gear. We strolled around for a while, then followed the lake toward Glenorchy where much of Lord of the Rings movie was filmed. Beautiful scenery.
Outside of Queenstown, we stopped at Arrow Town, home of former gold mining camps. We toured the Chinese settlement showing how the Chinese miners had lived. We had lunch at the former Postmaster's house, now a cute cafe. We have been seeing lots of deer farms, so we split a venison burger.
We learned it is for breast cancer awareness. Next door was a distillery we decided to visit. It is brand new, so their whiskey was not yet aged/available. They had designer bottles of vodka called "the Reid".
It is the owner's name!
On north. Since it wasn't raining, we thought we would freedom camp, but the wind was too strong coming off the lake at the campground we found. We drove on to this park, next to another beautiful lake.
That's it for Q-town? We were there 3 days and wanted more.
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