My Favorite Town - Wanaka!

The Ames Illusion Room, tiny me and big Semra
Now I'm Big!
The Roman bathroom
Morning mist
View to View point on Lake Matheson with Mount Cook in the back.
Left Franz Joseph and drove past Fox Glacier. There are only 3 glaciers in the world that are attached to a rain forest, Franz Joseph and Fox Glacier are two and the other one is in South America. Next stop was at Lake Matheson and we tramped up to the View to View point and got lucky again as it was another sunny day and took pictures with reflections in the lake with west side of Mount Cook in the distant background.

Then I headed down to an often missed little town called Wanaka. Along my travels so many people had told me to stop here and I am so glad I did! What a great little 'chill out' town, I went to a cool place called Puzzle World where they had different Illusion rooms and a Giant confusing Maze. They also have a giant leaning Tower of Wanaka with a backwards clock that they stated on January 1st, 2000. They also had Paradiso Cinema where I watched the movie - Changeling with Angelina Jolie while sitting in a decorated room with comfy couches and an old car and you got giant cookies at intermission. They still use a projector to show their movies.
I also rented a bike and followed the paths along the lake and through the yellow freshly fallen leaves, it was so beautiful and smelled just like home in the fall! I have only gone thru 2 seasons in the last 6 months, Fall, Summer and Fall again!