Recently, I had come from Queenstown, and I am going to tell you about my trip to Queenstown. Exact two years ago (20 January 2017), I had posted my trip to Queenstown with my Dad's friend. It was really fun. So, this is day 1 of my trip.
Day 1
At 7:00 AM, I woke up for an exciting trip to Queenstown. Two years ago, we had gone to Queenstown with my Dad's friend, it was really fun. I really like going to Queenstown because of the amazing natural views. We are staying there for five days. We were ready by 7:30 AM.
We left our house at 8:00 AM. It estimated that we will reach Lake Tekapo at 11:00 AM. We had gone by SH1 (State Highway 1), we were going straight for 70km. We stopped at the BP petrol station in Rolleston for air.
At 9:07 AM
We arrived at Ashburton. We stopped at McDonald's. We were relieved to stop because I wanted to stop somewhere and eat something. We chose not to eat at McDonald's. Instead, we got some toasties, I ate one Cheesy Garlic toastie and one Avocado toastie. We continued on SH1 to Lake Tekapo.
Our next stop was at Geraldine, we had stopped there for a break. We only stayed there for 10 minutes and left to go on SH8.
At 11:47 AM
We arrive at Lake Tekapo. It was an outstanding view of the lake when we arrived at the town. The sky was light blue, and the lake was shimmering like it was the reflection of the sky. We parked at the Church parking, we took photos of us by the church and the lake. Last time we went to Lake Tekapo (which was two years ago), there weren't any fences by the lake, in my opinion, they added fences because people damage the church or another reason. It's good that they made a new route to go by the lake. We took some photos on the rock. After, we went closer by the lake. After touching the lake, we walked to a dog statue and then went to find somewhere to eat and look at the majestic view. We were happily eating our food. We went to Aotea Gifts to look around. We hadn't bought anything from there. We wanted to reach at Wanaka as fast as possible. It estimated that we would reach Wanaka at 5:00 PM. We decided to go to Puzzling World.
At 5:00 PM, we arrived at Puzzling World. It was about to close after half an hour (5:30 PM). When we entered, we entered the Illusion Room (where we go every time because it's cool, and fun). The first room was the Hologram Room. There were 3D pictures on the wall. There was also a ball where if you touch it the electrics show where your touching (if you don't understand, look at this image on the right). It was a small room, the second room was the Tilted Room. We were the only one in the room because it was about to close. When I first walked in the room. It was quite easy to go through. The third room was the Hall of Following Faces, where there are 168 famous faces. When you move around the room, it looks like that the faces are moving. I could recognize famous people like Albert Einstein, and Nelson Mandala. We moved on to the next room, the Ames Room, which is an illusion room. On one side it looks like that you are taller and larger than the person on the other side of the room. After some minutes in the Ames Room, we went to the Sculptillusion Gallery. There were incredible illusions in the room. There was a table where on one side it looked liked two tables joined together, and one side where it looks like a cube. There were many illusions in the room. After a few minutes looking at the Sculptillusion Gallery, we went to the Puzzle Centre/Cafe. I had Ice-Cream because it was hot. After eating, we went to the Roman Toilets. It's a place to get photos with our family. Next, we went to the Leaning Tower of Wanaka. It's a really great space to take pictures.
After 20 minutes, we left Puzzling World to our holiday park. The holiday park was 10 minutes away from Puzzling World. We passed Lake Wanaka on the way to the holiday park. The holiday park was quite ahead of the town centre. We had arrived at 'Wanaka Kiwi Holiday Park & Motels' and checked in. We parked beside our house. There was a big park behind our house. We had two entries to our house, one from the front, and one from behind. We all unloaded our luggage and went into the house. It was a two bedroom house. After a long time in the car, we all sat on the sofas and rested. We had to stay in Wanaka for one night and leave in the morning to Te Anau. At 8:00 PM, we ate dinner, it was a good time. I saw outside, and the sun hadn't set yet (it was a but I watched India vs Australia on Sky Sports 2. I stayed up until 10:00 PM. I was watching while I was in bed. After some time, I went to sleep. It was a long day in the car going to Wanaka. As you know, that I am going to Te Anau the next day, I am going to stay there for a night too.
I hope you like my post about the first day of the trip to Queenstown. Comment down below if you've been to Wanaka? Have a cool day!! Bye!!
