Today was a semi-relaxing day, we didn’t have much to do except to drive to Te Anau from Wanaka, which was only about 3+ hours away. First, we made a stop at the information center to find out the road conditions of the Crown Range Road, which led from Wanaka to Queenstown. This was a shorter road than the regular highway, but windy and sometimes snowy. They assured us that the road conditions today were good, so we set off on our way. But not before taking some photos of the Wanaka lake and mountains!
There was an awesome van at the information center, and I had to take some photos of that van. If I ever had a van, I’d probably want it to look like that!
After our visit to the i-Site, I had decided to go to Puzzling World, which was just a few kms away from Wanaka. There was enough at Puzzle World to keep us entertained for a few hours, the maze itself took us almost an hour to complete!
The goal was to find the four corner towers of the maze, the easy challenge was just finding them, whereas the more difficult challenge was finding the towers in a certain order. We decided to start off with the difficult challenge, but soon discovered that it was more difficult than it looked, so we ended up doing the easy challenge instead. 
After completing the maze, we went on to visit the Roman style toilets. It’s so well done that when I peeped through, I thought there were real people using them! We finished up with the illusion rooms, then made our way back to Wanaka for lunch by the lakeside. Of course, the idea always sounded better in our head, when we sat down by the lake, the wind was so strong that we quickly found ourselves making our way back to the restaurant to eat in peace.
We arrived quite early at Te Anau, before 6 and checked into the YHA there. We asked the receptionist for a few dinner suggestions (not that there were that many restaurants!), and headed off to La Toscana. On the way there, we passed by a park, and I felt like making a quick stop to relive my childhood.
Then, we continued on our way to La Toscana, and our dinner.
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Arrrggggghhhh …… I’m so jealous!!! New Zealand is such a beautiful place. Your holiday is coming to an end. Remember to buy us back Presents !!!!