Wanaka

We had driven straight from Queenstown to Wanaka after we had gotten the van fixed and dropped Jess off. It only took us about 2 hours to drive north so it was fine.
The only main thing we had wanted to do in Wanaka was visit "PuzzleWorld" as we drove through it anyway to get up to the glaciers - Fox and Franz Josef.
We stayed the night in Mount Aspiring Motor Lodge - and it was the best camp so far that we have been plugged into..The showers were like ones you would get in a hotel, and believe me this is a luxury when you are travelling in a Toyota Hiace van with no loo and you are used to Hi- Dee - Hi style one.. ie cold and timed!
Usually the showers we go to automatically turn off after approx 6 mins which is not good when you've just put your shampoo on! Its a wonder i havent been caught running out of the shower in the nip to push the button again for another 6 mins..
So these ones in Wanaka got a full 10 out of 10 and this is now the one facility that we base our choice of camp on!

Anyhow, we got up the following morning and headed for Puzzleworld. Its not a very big complex but its got a cool maze outside and then illusion and various puzzle rooms inside.
We started with the maze outside and managed to get each marker in the 4 towers in the corners, but then when it came to get out we got lost trying to find our way back to the start...
So in a maze that should only take 1 hour to complete we were still running around after 2 hours looking for the exit, so yes in true irish chancer style we took the emergency exit instead and never let on!!

The illusion rooms required far less patience and were fab. fron gravity room to ones where hundreds of faces seemed to follow your every move (v. freaky), and then the grek style toilets it was super...

So having reclaimed our youth and stopping off at Pebble beach for pics we set off up north for the 2 ice glaciers Fox glacier and Franz Josef.