ARROWTOWN & QUEENSTOWN (22/08/09)
The picturesque Arrowtown is geographically very close to Queenstown but (as we found out later) couldn't be further removed in other respects. A tiny town set at the foothills of the mountains it was a quiet and relaxing place to spend the night.
After one exceptionally good night's sleep we went for a morning walk along the beautiful Arrow river along parts of which scenes of Lord of the Rings were filmed. This is Adam's best Aragorn impression.
These elegant poplar trees are abundant all around the town.
The trees along parts of the riverbank were coloured this deep pink, we couldn't work out why until we got a bit closer.
Thousands of these berries were growing on the trees which, when viewed with their white bark, made them look pink from a distance.
After the tranquility of Arrowtown we headed to Queenstown for the night. The ' Adventure Capital of New Zealand' it proudly proclaimed but we found it more like Benidorm in the mountains. Crowds of drunken idiots were running around town at 1 in the afternoon and our hostel was a bit like a really run down student halls only far dirtier. Anyway we stayed long enough to ride the gondola up the mountain and enjoy this view of the town before checking back out of our hostel without even staying one night and high tailing it back to the sanctuary of Arrowtown.
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