The Astro Cafe at the end of Middle Earth's Galaxy

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After a quite long drive up to the land of the turquoise lakes we passed a couple water power plants. Then we stopped at Lake Pukaki where we enjoyed the view to the snow covered Mount Cook. That was actually the closest view we got, due to an unfortunate lack of time.

We exspected to find the mirror like Lake Tekapo, but it was just bad luck, that the day we were there was a bloody windy day. So we climbed up the nearest Mountain... Mount John. Up on the Summit we stumbled across the Astro Cafe operated by the Observatory of the University of Canterbury. Once we reached the terasse we didn't really think of stars, cause it was daytime, but rather of the massive battle scene from Middle Earth. The scene was shot just next to us in the vast and wide valley.

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Photos

The endless roads we had to travel...
zzZZZ We kept falling asleep.

Eroded hills beside the road
This is probably a result of the heavy woodindustry, which left only 10% of NZ's Rainforest.

Clouds above Lake Pukaki
just funny. they look like a sandbank.

We thought we found the Restaurant at the end of the galaxy..
... but it was just the Astro Cafe... LOL

Observatory of the University of Canterbury
.. and the Battlefield of Middle Earth

Battlefield of Middle Earth
Can you hear the lost souls screaming...?

Lake Tekapo Downtown.... LOL
The lake has its colour from the many tiny particles floating around and reflecting the sunlight.