Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Glenorchy: The Gateway to Paradise

While we were in Queenstown, we took a day trip out to Glenorchy, a tiny township about a 45 minute drive northwest along Lake Wakatipu. The drive there has been renown as one of the most scenic drives in the world:


The town itself didn't have a whole lot other then this really nice park where we stopped for lunch:

But the real reason we wanted to go to Glenorchy was because it was known as the “Gateway to Paradise,” and Paradise, like Twelve Mile Delta, was a major Lord of the Rings filming location!

More on Paradise in the next post...

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