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 variety of tastings ($5 to $15), along with a restaurant, a cheesery and bike hire. It even operates its own bus ($35 return) from Queenstown; bookings essential.
In summer, large concerts (mainly starring past-their-prime rockers) are held on the grounds.
12.86 MILES
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
11.36 MILES
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
12.56 MILES
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
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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
23.8 MILES
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
14.55 MILES
When the Clyde Dam was completed in 1992 it flooded Cromwell's historic town centre 鈥 280 homes, six farms and 17 orchards. Many historic buildings were鈥
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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
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Mixing Smurfs with Studebakers and skidoos (and an authentic MiG jet fighter flown by the Polish Air Force), this completely eclectic and absorbing鈥
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The most picturesque of the Gibbston wineries, Chard Farm's rustic cellar door is reached by a precipitous 2km road overlooking the Kawarau Bridge Bungy鈥
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Peregrine by name, peregrine by design鈥he award-winning construction of the cellar door, shaped a bit like a falcon's wing in flight, looks particularly鈥
2.15 MILES
Producers of one of the region's most acclaimed pinot noirs; its cellar door is in the front yard of the rustic Gibbston Tavern.
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Covering much of the Pisa Range, this conservation reserve has several walking trails through the tussock grass. To get the full show, the 19km tramp to鈥
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With gold rushes came lawlessness. Arrowtown's prisoners were originally manacled to logs, but in 1876 this schist jail, now surrounded by homes, was鈥
6. St Patrick's Catholic Church
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Apart from its impressive Star of David鈥搒haped rose window, this 1874 stone Gothic Revival church, built from local schist rock, wouldn't be worth noting鈥
7. Lakes District Museum & Gallery
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Exhibits cover the gold-rush era and the early days of Chinese settlement around Arrowtown. Kids are kept engaged by the likes of an 'Odd One Out' game鈥
8. Arrowtown Chinese Settlement
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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