The Journey: Mini Road-Trip Day 2

Woke up at 6.30am for the sunrise in Lake Matheson. This time we aren't that disappointed as the view are ok, but there are seriously too many people there. The whole viewpoint deck are all occupied with tripod and DSLRs. With my D3300 and kit lens, I felt kinda inferior there haha. We went to search for the blue mushrooms growing along the track after some photos. Surprisingly we actually managed to find two of them, they are not big, but we are satisfied.

After that we continued our journey all the way to Arrowtown for the legendary autumn view. Witnessed the stunning view of Lake Hawea and Lake Wanaka, the hills here are so green and the water is so clear and blue that I couldn't believe my own eyes, it's like the view had been photoshoped. Lol. We weren't that satisfied with this Arrowtown trip. The autumn view are nice, but it's not as nice as we expected though. Some of the leaves on the trees were still green at the moment. As the Autumn Festival is ongoing in Arrowtown from 21-25 April, there were a really big crowd around the town centre. Tomorrow is ANZAC day, which is public holiday, that's why. But still, we enjoyed this trip a lot. This is the main destination of our whole road-trip honestly haha.

Our next destination was Queenstown, which is around 30 minutes drive from Arrowtown. People always told me how nice this city is. Today I finally had the chance to witness the beauty of this city by myself. It was by far the prettiest city I've ever been to. Plus it's autumn now, the maple leaves were red in colour, which made the whole street alive. People are taking pictures everywhere. There were so many Chinese here you can see them everywhere. In Queenstown, you can't save money on food. The most famous attractions here for many people are the food. The burgers, ice-cream and hot chocolate. I didn't had the chance to taste the hot chocolate but we managed to get the Fergburger and the Mrs. Ferg gelato ice-cream. Spent around $20 but it's worth it. It's a small city with a large number of population, so crowded.

At 6.45pm we started our journey to our backpackers hostel in Omarama since we were not able to book the accommodations in Lake Tekapo and Geraldine. Damn public holiday! It's $30 here but the facilities are OK, except that there are no telephone service here and we have to buy Wi-Fi from the office for $1 per 100MB. It's freaking windy here that if you didn't stand still you could be moved by the wind, Freaking exciting haha.