Queenstown
Shaped like a cartoon lightning bolt, Lake Wakatipu is NZ's third-largest lake. It reaches a depth of 372m, meaning the lake bed actually sits below sea鈥
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Queenstown & Wanaka
Few people come to Queenstown to wind down. The self-styled 'adventure capital of the world' is a place where visitors come to throw their inhibitions out the window鈥nd throw themselves out of planes and off mountain tops and bridges.
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Queenstown & Wanaka
Enter past the fence of bras (Bra-drona!) and you'll find the beautiful cellar door of this fledgling single-malt distillery inside a building made of鈥
Queenstown
Set on its own tongue of land framing Queenstown Bay, this pretty park is the perfect city escape right within the city. Laid out in 1876, it features an鈥
Queenstown
Hop aboard for fantastic views as the gondola squeezes through pine forest to its grandstand location 400m above Queenstown. At the top there's the鈥
Wanaka
W膩naka Station Park is a piece of W膩naka that existed before W膩naka did. This remnant of the sheep station that once covered the entire south side of the鈥
Queenstown & Wanaka
Strung along the creek, near the site of Arrowtown's first gold find, is NZ鈥檚 best example of an early Chinese settlement. Interpretive signs explain the鈥
National Transport & Toy Museum
Wanaka
Mixing Smurfs with Studebakers and skidoos (and an authentic MiG jet fighter flown by the Polish Air Force), this completely eclectic and absorbing鈥
Queenstown & Wanaka
The area's oldest commercial winery (established in the early 1980s) offers tours of the winery ($35) and NZ's largest wine cave ($20). It also has a鈥
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