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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Fergburger @ Queenstown - New Zealand

One of the must eat or try to finish eating when in Queenstown.

It is not difficult to locate this joint as the restaurant is on Shotover Street, which is sort of like the main artery of this town.

Addresss : 42 Shotover Street, Queenstown Town Centre 9300, New Zealand

We ordered 2 versions:-

BIG AL - NZ$16.50

Al delivers a double serving of prime New Zealand beef (1/2lb), lashings of bacon, a whole lotta cheese, 2 eggs, beetroot, lettuce, tomato, red onion, relish & a big wad of aioli.
(taken from the menu)

and cannot remember the other type of burger we had

this is way too much for a person, HB & I shared one burger for dinner and kept the other bun for our breakfast. Luckily no food poisoning :-)

yummy yummy NON-HALAL .... BARGER!

Shotover Jet, Gorge Road, Arthur's Point, Queestown

We took a different road back to Queenstown, through the Gorge Route.

This is andrelin country ..

Bridge Over Shotover River

Shotover Office/Get On-off Points

@ Lake Wakatipu - Queenstown

Arrow Town - Chinese Settlement

This morning, we had our left-over Fernburger for breakfast..ya very economical sharing bread !! In cantonese, it's called 'ngai min poe'..

Our destination today is Arrowtown, a former Chinese settlement.

This former gold mining town is a living, historic holiday destination. It's located about 22km from Queenstown.

With signs that really give you accurate directions, we reached this quaint place in less than an hour of leisure drive.
This place was not recognised until the early nineties when the parliments voted to recognise the contributions of Chinese and the gold miners and the birth of this historical place.

During the high point of the gold rush the population of Arrowtown rose to over 7,000.

The other mining ettlements of Macetown, Skippers and Bullendale (today only ghost towns) can be reached by a 7-8 hours trek along Arrow River.

The town reached a population low of fewer than 200 people in the 1960s, before gaining popularity again.

It's apperance has been strictly preseved and the buildings used by the Chinese & European from the gold mining era are in excellent conditions.

Remants of homes built at hill slopes

Some of the earliest settlers in ArrowTown

Easy to follow signages everywhere

Trails to the ghost towns inland

Colour coded for easier identifications

For the adventerous and outdoor hippies

The classic Macetown Ride follows a journey that in the old days would take gold miners three days up the remote Arrow River to the historic gold mining town of Macetown.

The late comer Chinese going off to try her luck at gold mining

Ya,,I found my gold

Huge chunks of unmined rock with gold

This is my territory

Buckingham Street, the town’s main street, and the lanes and arcades around it are a shopping attraction, offering a wide range of quality products including fashion, jade, gifts and local wines.

The old stable, now a shop

Line Dancing is also available

Lake Wakatipu - Queenstown

context taken from wikipedia :

15,000 years ago during the last ice age, a huge glacier moving from the north west carved out what is now Lake Wakatipu. The lake is relatively thin, but the mountains run straight into the lake, forming a deep canyon, 399m at its deepest point.
Lake Wakatipu is the second largest lake in the Southern Lakes District, covering 290 square km. At its widest point Lake Wakatipu is five kilometers wide, and the total length is 84km.

Maori Legend
The Maori legends state that the giant Matau was burnt to death in his sleep after he abducted a chief's daughter, burning a massive hole in the ground and melting the ice and snow of the surrounding mountains, forming the lake. The lake is a large "S" shape, like a giant, curled up and sleeping on its side. Matau's head rested at Glenorchy, at the north of the lake, and his feet south in Kingston. Queenstown sits on Matau's knee.
One of Wakatipu's mysteries is the rise and fall of the lake by about 12cm (5") every five minutes. Legend states that a Giant's heart is impossible to destroy, and causes this rise and fall, while science says it is due to fluctuating atmospheric pressures. But across the lake from the town below Cecil Peak is a little island visible only from up close, from above, or from a different angle. Some say Hidden Island is the still beating heart of the Giant Matua...

The Maori people first inhabited the area in a search for food, ponamu or greenstone, and the flightless Moa. The north of the Lake is one of six of the country's main sources of greenstone.

The Earnslaw
Queenstown's famous "Lady of the Lake" has been in operation since 1912, when it first set off on its Maiden Voyage from Kingston. Originally designed to carry sheep, cattle, and passengers to high country stations around the lake, today the Earnslaw runs tourist cruises to Walter Peak high country station.

The beautiful steamship was refurbished in 1984, when the 12m high funnel was painted bright red, and the hull a brilliant white. And living up to the town's name as being fit for the Queen, in 1990 the Earnslaw carried Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Queenstown

South Island's view never fail to amaze me..

Lake Wakatipu, the Remarkables, & Queenstown

The dude whom found Queenstown and later gold..

The great guy himself and his little sheep

I just love how clean the city and the rest of NZ is..

Remarkables in the foreground

By Lake Wakatipu

Dunedin to Queenstown/Passing thru Alexandra

Today, we leave Dunedin for Queenstown, a drive of about 290km via Highway 1.
Passed thru Alexandra Town..yes, you got it, that's the surname of dwellers in this town.
It was founded during the Otago Gold Rush in the 18th century.

The 1958 steel truss arch bridge carrying State Highway 8 across the Clutha River at Alexandra. Beside it, stands the remainding towers of the wooden bridge that was swept away by flood.