To cure our hangovers, we stopped at a place called the Bushman Centre for breakfast - apparently they serve the best possum pies in NZ! Ok, so admittedly we did pass on possum pie and had cooked breakfast instead, after venturing into what I can safely say is the WEIRDEST museum I have ever been to. We were shown a video about deer farming first of all which had men jumping out of helicopters trying to catch deer (very amusing!), then as we wandered around, they kept a couple of possums which were asleep, and a wild pig that one of the guys on our bus had to feed, and random practical jokes - not for the faint-hearted! We reached Franz Josef just after lunchtime, and were staying in the Rainforest Retreat, which was a very
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