Thu, Jan 8
Spent a few days in Wanaka, which is the gateway to the Mt Aspiring park. It has a feeling like Aspen or Interlachen, where there are a bunch of people getting ready to do serious climbing.
We havent actually seen Mt Aspiring or Mt Cook yet, because of the cloud cover , even tho it’s a nice day at all but the topmost heights. The scenery is just breathtaking. We’ll try to post a picture to give you an idea. This country is one delight after another, we stop so often to take pictures we can’t drive more than about 60 miles in a day.
I’m astonished that accomodations are so available. It’s supposed to be high season now, and all the guide books say to book in advance this time of year, but we have had no trouble finding accomodation within 5 minutes of saying, "this is a nice place, lets look for something here." I think that a lot of it is due to the sagging worldwide economy, and people just aren’t traveling.
But there are still a lot of tourists at the big tourist drawing places. With the majority of them being from England. A lot of Aussies, and a few from Germany. Coming from England seems like a big deal to me. It’s 12 time zones away….. 24 hours by plane. But here they are.
We should be able to put up more pictures tonight.
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Have tried to e-mail you several times but get the dreaded 'reject'. looks like you have been seeing a bit of 'real' NZ. I did Tongariro/Ngauruhoe/Ruapehu + up to snowline on Mt Aspiring as part of my Phys Ed training 50 years ago - also used Abel Tasman for outdoor education with my Teachers College students. Offer for golf (and bed if you want it) in Levin still open as you pass thru. We are a little more awake here than Westport! Adrian
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