View from Queenstown hill

We went for a little tramp up a very steep hill, well worth it for this view! Lovely lovely sunshine!

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July 20th 2006
So we left Wanaka behind, Tom's flu was clearing up nicely (now only a severe cough), and off through the frosty hills and valleys towards Queenstown. A great little drive, surrounded by mountains and steep sided valleys with a torrent of water sweeping by at the bottom of each - beautiful. On a damp Saturday afternoon Queenstown was a surprisingly pretty, entertaining kind of a town. Like Wana ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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