Town of gold - Arrowtown
March 24th 2008 Leaving Queenstown, we drove up to Arrowtown for a few hours on the way to the next stop, which is Wanaka. Its a pretty little town, built on the goldrush and golden now for the colours of the trees, as we approach autumn. They have restored some of the old miners cottages and also rebuilt some shacks that the Chinese gold diggers lived in - rather smaler than the Europeans homes! It was a bit bu
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