THE HISTORIC GOLD-MINING TOWN OF ARROWTOWN

2nd December 2013 ~ Arrowtown was once a gold-mining town of the South Island in the 18th century. It was so famous that it attracted the Chinese immigrants to come here. They were not that welcomed by the locals though and other than the "cowboy town", visitors could also see the settlement of the Chinese immigrants nearby. If I am not mistaken, they did not stay long for the winter was too cruel and life was too hard for them.

 

 

The moral of the story: you could always find the Chinese everywhere you go.

DRIVING AROUND QUEENSTOWN AND BEYOND

2nd December 2013 ~ We rented a car on the second day in Queenstown so we could venture out a bit. The places visited were Arrowtown and Glenorchy on Monday, and we went to Wanaka the next day. Mr. Hamzah was driving all the time (THANK YOU!), the roads were going uphill and downhill most of the time, and winding too. The weather was a bit too hot on those two days. But I was always happy to see the sun and the blue sky. We stopped a few times to take photos of the lakes and the mountains, we never got tired of doing that, and sometimes I just snapped the photos from inside the moving car. I wonder if you have grown bored looking at almost the same photos every time.

There's a video at the bottom part of this entry. Hope you will like it.

FROM QUEENSTOWN TO GLENORCHY: