Wanaka
How very W膩naka that an art-house cinema should adjoin an indoor climbing wall. Channelling a lush New York or Shanghai vibe, Ruby's has a whiff of cinema's glory days. Watch a movie from a reclining leather chair with a warming blanket over your knees, or just chill in the red-velvet lounge with local craft beers and wine or classic cocktails.
Ruby's is in the Basecamp W膩naka building on the outskirts of town.
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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
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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
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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 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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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
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
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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
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A 3D Great Maze and lots of fascinating brain-bending visual illusions serve to keep people of all ages bemused, bothered and bewildered at this鈥
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It's worth raising a glass to the view alone at Rippon since the Tuscan-styled cellar door has surely the finest winery view in NZ. In a bid to contain鈥
4. 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
5.14 MILES
Push past the Barbies to get to the beer 鈥 the tasting room for the Wanaka Beerworks is rather incongruously at the rear of the toy museum gift shop. Get鈥
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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
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Gold was discovered in Bendigo in 1862; relics from the rush can be seen at this historic reserve, accessible off SH8, near the north of Lake Dunstan鈥
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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