overdue post. written on 7th august.
to be frank, I almost gave up in blogging my nz trip, too many things to write, too many photos to sort
3.74Gb can u imagine that, but our darling
yichin told me she's anticipating for my welly post! so I shall continue posting real nice photos no matter u've started to feel bored heh.
well after Queenstown, we went to
Wanaka, an ultra small town to the north. another 5 hours bus haih. This time I was free from any allergy which
fuglised me, but I tried to be diligent so I read novel in the bus, which resulted in travel sickness and
DENG I
vomited. while everyone was sleeping like a log T__T
luckily the bus driver stopped just in the nick of time. I rushed down and threw out basically everything that made up my stomach space. when I had finally done with it and was walking back to the bus, I saw a few tourists taking photo of the sky and.. tree?
I was like
"freak.. what's so nice about the trees anyway? totally weird". but in the end I joined them =.=
and I took this!
my masterpiece, so proud of myself can! it has got nothing to do with camera okay, I'm just good =p
Wanaka is all about
Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World.
as we only planned to stay in Wanaka for a night, as soon as we settled down in our backpackers
Purple Cow (what name is that right? hmm), we asked for direction to Puzzling World.
the friendly receptionist told us
Oh puzzling world ey, it's pretty near, walking distance from here blabla. And we believed her. whole heartedly.
Okay i shouldn't speak like she lied or something, maybe
35 mins walk is still
walking distance to kiwi?
yea 35 mins! and it was up and down hills again.
we saw this on the way there.
a very typical kiwi scenery. countless sheep and cows munching grassy la they forever eating one? cannot comprehend.Puzzling World is basically divided into 2 parts.
The Maze and
Illusion World. We walked 35mins there so we die die also wanna play both! haha
Leaning Tower of Wanaka. See how strong I'm! lamelame
before entering The Maze, the staff told us that the washrooms are worth a visit.
we were like =.= but we went anyway bcoz we are
jakuns ma.
then we realised that there were loads of
illusion photos along the way to washrooms. those we usually see in forwarded emails.
like this.
There were more surprises in front of the washrooms!
There were benches with holes, reckon that was how ancient toilets look like, and the wall is painted as if the benches are connected to another world. with a few angmoh lengcais having their own sweet time too =p
it looks so real that I couldn't resist myself from touching his umm...I wonder what's the thing in his hand. hmm.and even the
toilet bowls are different, no kidding.
if u are an
ocean lover, u can go for this.
oh wait, u prefer
flowers?
or ur butt is just as sweet as
jelly bean?
well if u think u're so wealthy sometimes u don und y and u have got sick with golden toilet bowls, u can try this.
I think nobody will try this right?
okay enough of toilets and ass,
I personally think that
The Maze is very poorly constructed.
The walls are made of wood. and what we have to do was just to reach 4 different towers through the maze. Well it's not easy but it's
boringgggg.
I got bored after like.. 15mins, but the ego in me asked me not to take the emergency exit. After that 6 of us were somehow split, me lw and yt one group, jai moli and yf another group.
but hohoho unfortunately we came out
WAY EARLIER than them hahahaha. We waited in the shop until the point that we got bored too and called them, who were still trapped in the maze LOL.
Illusion World amazed me more if u ask.
it starts with
a series of photographs which can be viewed from different angle as if it's 3D. Some look like they can move, but when u touch, it's just a piece of photo. Didn't take photo there, sorry, it was kinda crowded and u can only experience the magic by looking at the photo while moving left to right, so no point taking photos la.
And then we came to
Hall of Fame. with staring faces.
Can u imagine many identical Einstein staring at u? seriously scary.
the walls are made up of many identical famous faces. One with
Mother Theresa, another with
Einstein and etc. The blocks are just plastic mold of their distinctive facial feature. They were expressionless if u see with both eyes.
But when u view them using one eye, as in 2D la, they appear as
scary staring faces. and it looks like their vision never leave u wherever u walk.
see! so many Einsteins' looking at me T_Twe got freak out so we went to another.. um.. I don really remember, angle problem world? haha
well everything is just not right there. sometimes u look shorter, the ball rows and water flows upwards with only gravity force,
and u look senget no matter how hard u try to stand straight.
the yellow ruler on the wall represents a line parallel to the groundsee I was standing parallel the to the ruler! but then I just looked weird.sooo confusing.
I got so dizzy after that, seriously.
and there was this room u can turn tall or short, as u like =p
whoever stands at the left door appear larger then the right one.spot me?(right photo) this is the first time I look so petite compared to yt! hahaha
after that there's this sort of play ground for us, with loadsa different games provided, such as puzzles and crosswords. No I didn't manage to solve any.
Wanaka has the most breathtaking scenery ever! the
lake wanaka, it's just beyond description.
I'm the photographer. heh.
it was taken the morning before we left. Jai and Moli back to Dunedin, and us to Frans Josef. we didn't really have teary good bye, but I felt real sad to leave them coz having them around is so so so so fun la.
will always remember both of u. Jai and Moli =)
Bus to Frans Josef. Stopped by a salmon farm and I had smoked salmon pizza for lunch.
conclusion is, fresh salmon is always better than smoked ones. blek.
in case u didn't notice, I'm getting lazy to write more.
then the bus stopped again at some random place (places that i don remember is random place haha).
another picturesque scenery =)
new zealand is pretty afterall =)
sarah tan it's ur turn to update! ish ish.
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