New Zealand Road Trip Day 11 - To Wanake : Cardrona, That Wanaka Tree, Roys Peak

We woke up in 7:30am and made the nice breakfast. It's hard to use the electric heating stove, I failed to do the omelette. After breakfast, we cooked fried rice for our lunch.

Fail omelette

Then we depart to Wanaka. We stopped at several look out point such as Arrowtown lookout and lookout near crown range.

Flag at the arrow junction lookout point

Arrow Junction Lookout Point

Crown Range Scenic Lookout

Crown Range Scenic Lookout

We also stopped at the Bradrona fence.

She didn't take off the bra. XD

Cardrona Bra Fence

We reach Wanaka tree around 12 pm. There are a lot of tourist taking that Wanaka tree photos. I just simply took it and leave the place. After had our lunch near the lake, we have a Patagonia Dark Chocolate & Macadamia ice cream. It is so nice to eat.

That Wanake Tree

Lunch beside Wanaka Lake

Patagonia Ice Cream

At 1pm, we drove to the Roy's peak car park to do out main activity of the day. The climb is quiet tough as all the way is quite steep but the scenery of the lake Wanaka is quite spectacular. After 2 hours of climb, we reached the main photo shooting point. There are not many people and hence we just wait for a while to take the photos. But we were quite stress by the tourist at behind and hence we just simply take it. Then we went to another place to the jump shoot. It is quite cold that we had to wear glove and windbreaker to stay warm. My hand is even shivering while take the glove off. After that, we quickly hike down and complete the climb in 5 hours.

At the Starting Point

Leaving the car park

Quite steep the climb

Climbing up tough but scenery getting nicer

Nice view

At the top

Roy's Peak

Very windy and cold until hand shivering

Sheeps are on the hill

Then we cooked our noodle soup dinner beside the Lake Wanaka. Enjoy the cooking, eating while viewing the nice scenery.

Ducks on the Wanaka Lake

Dinner

Then, that night we stayed at the Albert Town Campsite which cost NZD10 per person. It is a good night rest after a long hike

Camping Fee