Today was a day mainly of driving as the trip from Wanaka to Franz Josef was around four and a half hours. Before setting off we stopped off at Puzzling World in Wanaka, which, as the name suggests, is a theme-style park full of puzzles!
There was the Illusion Room where water appears to drain backwards, balls on pool tables roll uphill and you stand upright at a 45 degree angle – all very disturbing and quite stomach-wrenching too.
Then there was the Ames Room where one person appears really big, and the other tiny – apparently an illusion they used in Lord of the Rings.
To finish the morning off we attempted the Great Maze, but got bored after about 15 minutes and used the emergency exit!
We had planned a supermarket stop but it turned out that between Wanaka and Franz Josef there was pretty much nothing – we managed to find a cafe for lunch, where Dave and Skins had school-style fish and chips (or fush and chups if you’re a Kiwi) and I had soup. We eventually arrived into Franz Josef at around 4pm. Having booked our half-day glacier walk, we went to the shops to stock up on food for dinner and the glacier walk the next day.
It turned out that the campsite we were staying on was a bit of a party-backpacker style campsite where the Kiwi Experience bus (a bit like the Greyhound I think) was stopping for the night. In the pub on the site, there was a traffic light party going on so we spent the night there with our new found friends Ben and Becky. After going back to their campervan (mainly to compare) for a glass of wine, we eventually fell into a very cold bed at 1am.
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