Wanaka

The evening of our arrival I went for a run with a few of the lads. We jogged alongside one of Wanaka’s lakes that mirrored the neighboring mountains, after many strides these mountains had turned to silhouettes of sentinels watching over the town and the clouds had turned crimson with the setting sun, It looked like some kind of CGI from a big budget movie.

The next morning it rained hard so we entered Puzzleworld one of the few sights around. It was set up by a slightly eccentric Englishman and had been drawing in curious travelers ever since. Inside there are lots of illusions and oddities such as the room where water appears to cascade upstream and balls roll uphill, a room where the eyes of figures follow you wherever you move and my favourite a room that tricks your eye into seeing a two people of similar size become giant and hobbit, this technique was used by Peter Jackson in The Lord of The Rings, It makes for pretty cool photos.