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Detailed travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Detailed Travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Larry
2006-05-27 03:23:16

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every type of seating you could imagine, from old dilapidated couches to
school chairs, to recliners -- all thrown together haphazardly into a cozy
square room, in order to magically transform it into a small-town cinema.
After picking up dinner, I went back to the motel to do my laundry, and
watched "The Killing Fields" on the in-house TV channel. It was a good
movie that I had seen before, but I almost wished I had stayed in town to
see the late show at the Wanaka "cinema".

ARROWTOWN

The next morning, I set out early for Queenstown, stopping first along
the way at an old mining town named Arrowtown. In its heyday, Arrowtown was
a bustling center for gold mining, but today, is only a quiet reminder of
what it once was. Still, many of the old buildings still stand, and it's
anything but dead -- many people live in the small town, and in the area
around it.
There's a very good museum in Arrowtown that has rooms filled items from
the gold rush days -- from tools to dresses to pianos. There's also an
exhibit on the Chinese immigrants who came during the gold rush era of the
1800s. They played an important part in New Zealand history, setting up
small Chinatowns in most of the mining communities and finding gold in many
of the claims already abandoned by the white miners. When the gold ran out,
many left to return to China, while others remained -- their descendants
still living in New Zealand today.
The museum is definitely worth a stop for anyone passing by -- it's much
more interesting and detailed than you might suspect from just looking
around the lobby.

QUEENSTOWN

After having a look at Arrowtown, I set off for Queenstown, the largest
town (and major tourist center) of the area. I planned to spend 5-6 hours
there, and that's pretty much what ...

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