Gondola in Queenstown
Day 344
Te Anau South Island, NZ
Camping again in Te Anau.
Te Anau is SO pretty! We were glad to end up in this gorgeous little town. The township of Te Anau is just two hours from Queenstown.
The woman at the Holiday Park in Te Anue got our name completly wrong :-) The "e" ended up an "i" and our name came out looking so funny.
The kiwi's really do have a strange way of pronouncing things!!!!! (in our aussie books anyway!) All the vowels are swallowed. When you think of how young the country is, the evolvement of the language is very recent.
We have a similar historical background, and yet both the aussies and the kiwi's have a unique individual pronouncement of the same language. I was reading a whole article about this (language and linguistics) in the paper today, which was interesting. But i guess it's the same with the british (Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English) as well. Language is so fascintating!
The spot we chose for our tent was near a lot of other tents that were up in the camping ground. We got friendly with the guy next door and had quite a few discussions about weather! It was raining when we pitched the tent..and it rained all night!!! (I didn't hear it!!! It was pelting down apparently..and i was still oblivious!) Ignorance is bliss, as they say! Poor Greg ended up, up half the night thinking the tent was going to fly away..or get drenched..but we survived!
I love our blow up mattress...
But the camping side of it...is getting a little.....OLD?
We spent the day in Queenstown after our night in Te Anau..
And Queenstown should definitely be awarded the spot on the Monopoly Board.
SO..SO..beautiful!
We went on a gondola and had the most incredible view of the whole town...gorgeous.
While we were up the top, we also had FUSH and CHUPS. Which were very yummy...
We were going to go on the luge and paragliding...
But it was raining...hehe
(Phew!)
We headed out of Queenstown, past all the large poplar trees, the one way bridges oceans and trees and a whole lot more wineries to Fiordland...
Entering South Westland World Heritage area was special....we felt we were in another world...
The name of the town was Fox Glacier.
But, where to stay?
We decided to book into a cabin for the night. It was still raining.
But..........
Would we find a cabin in this popular town that had 'no vacancies' on every motel?
