Friday, April 5, 2019

New Zealand Road Trip Day 14 - To Aoraki : Along West Coast, Wanaka and Aoraki


After having breakfast, we departed from Fox Glacier at 9:15am. Our target time to reach at Wanaka by 1pm. But we stop at several lookout like Ship Creek Walk, Thunder Falls. The thunder fall is quite worth to stop and watch. We also stop at several lookout points at lake Wanaka as there is snow cap forming on the top of the mountain.
Breakfast

Morning in the guesthouse

The Kitchen

Ship Creek Walk

Nice Wave, Nice Scenery

Ship Creek

The view at the Ship Creek

The view at the Ship Creek

The view at the Ship Creek

The route in Ship Creek Walk

Thunder Fall

Snow cap at the mountain top

The rental car that had accompanied for 2 weeks

Snow capped mountain at the Lake Wanaka

We reach Wanaka at 2pm. After settled hers bank matter, we bought the Erik Fish and Chip and eat beside the Lake Wanaka while enjoy viewing the snow cap mountain. At 3pm, we fully add the car petrol and depart to Mount Cook direction. When driving through the Lindis Pass, the view quite spectacular as the mountain is so huge and the scenery is beautiful.
Erik Fish and Chip

Lunch at the lake side


Wanaka Lake

Lindis Pass Viewpoint

Another side of Lake Pakaki

At 5:30pm, we reached back the Lake Pukaki Salmon shop again. We back to the same place but we were not going for the salmon. We were here for the scenery, the snow cap mountains view with the lake is quite amazing. After took the photos, we drove to the Aoraki.
Viewpoint at the Pukaki Salmon Shop

View to the Aoraki

We reached the White Horse Campground again but with beautiful snow capped mountain scenery and glacier. We have round the southern alps for around 500km from the left side of the mount cook to the right side of the mount cook. Fox glacier was raining in the morning while Aoraki is partly cloudy. This is due to the broken bride between the Fox Glacier and Franz Josef change our plan.
The temperature in Aoraki is quite cold, around 8C. After we had the dinner, we just stay in the car.

Again

Dinner

Our way to sleep in car


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