Omarama - Gliding Capital of the World
December 11th 2005 Omarama is 40 minutes from where you reach Route 8 after leaving Mount Cook. Next stop can be the salmon farm along the way. You might want to pull into Twizal and have a look next. A community built as the village for all the workers on the Waitaki Hydro dams and is now a thriving up-market community and a pleasant place for tourists to visit.
Just before Omarama is a turnoff to a new DOC camp o
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