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Bec2004-09-20 11:38:03
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because I travel alone for long periods at a time and need to make friends with whom I can communicate along the way.
Getting closer to the Franz Josef glacier, Steve who had not seen glaciers before was impressed but I found that it was somewhat small compared to several glaciers I had climbed in the Canadian Rockies when I was young fourty years ago or to the great andean glaciers which I saw (but did not climb) in Peru and Bolivia and Chile in 1994.
As small as it was, the Franz Josef glacier was something to enjoy in the cool mountain air. I must say however that there were a lot of tourists about and that it took some patience to take pictures without a bunch of them getting in the way.
LAKE WANAKA
Leaving the town of Franz Joseph, I visited lovely Matheson lake but skipped the Fox glacier and took the bus south with my Korean friends. We crossed the mountains again by Haast pass and enjoyed great scenery, such as this view on Lake Wanaka, all the way to Queenstown. The mountain landscapes are really spectacular; it's not surprising to find so many tourists around here!
QUEENSTOWN
Queenstown on beautiful Wakatipu lake started out as a sheep farming and gold mining town but died at the end of the last century. Now it has been born again as a tourist attraction and is doing very well thank you. The setting is truly beautiful and as it lies on the eastern side of the mountains, the climate is good year round.
Skiing in winter and all kinds of sports in summer from bungee jumping through white water rafting, jet boating and parapenting to the more staid pleasures of nature treking are available to enthusiastic tourists. The reborn Queenstown can truly be called "The Town that Tourists Made". The tourist circuit is so well organised that it is hard to resist.
GUNN LAKE
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