Cruising to Queenstown in style
The rentals this time were Toyota Previas or something to that tune. They were slightly smaller than the Hiaces we were used to renting, but had air conditioning and handled much better. These attributes would prove to be handy later on.
The drive up, at first, was rather bland until we reached the first of two phenomenal lakes. You have to see the pictures to truly appreciate what we saw. Blue. Everywhere. And not like the generic blue of the ocean, this was a shimmering almost glowing blue that was surreal. The water framed snow-capped mountains in the background, and made the perfect scene for pictures destined for postcards.
We stopped a few times for photo ops, and then continued onto a po-dunk town for lunch. I eventually settled on a little hole-in-the-wall café which turned out to be quite tasty.
We didn’t arrive into Queenstown until late that night, and we pretty much crashed once we checked into our hostel. The rooms were quite big – 8 people to a room, with little shower/bathroom pods for every two rooms. No air conditioning (grumble), but it was just barely cool enough to make the sleep bearable. It was too bad we had to be up at
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