Day 4 of our NZ trip and it’s time to leave Franz Josef and set out for a reaaaaally long roadtrip to Lake Tekapo. The drive time is 8 hours total, so basically a whole day on the road.
Going to Lake Tekapo if you check the map, isn’t the most logical choice given the route since you’re basically going back up to the Canterbury region, and then going back down again to get to Queenstown. But we forced this place into the itinerary because of the good reviews and pictures we saw of the place.. So we agreed that we won’t stop long in any place or do walks.. Stops are only for those that we pass by along the way.
First stop we made was in Fox glacier town, this is another one of the popular places to do glacier walks in besides Franz Josef. I’m not sure which of the 2 is better, but unlike Franz Josef, I couldn’t really see the glacier mountain from the town. We stopped to check out the Lake Mattheson reserve, the entrance had a cafe overlooking this beautiful scenery.
There’s a 40 minute round trip walk to a scenic lookout of the lake, but we decided to not do that anymore and just press on with our road trip.
The road going to Wanaka is near Mt. Aspiring National Park, Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea. So again a lot of panoramic views of mountains and lakes to capture along the way.
Lake Hawea
Little Miss OZ Chinita and Blueclouds 