We left the Hotel around 0800 hrs and headed off in the direction of Te Anau. This took us via Ashburton where we had a good breakfast and then followed out noses through places like Geraldine, Fairlie, Lake Takapo and Twizel where we stopped for lunch. This is a nice little town surrounded by mountains including Mount Cook. We then went to Queenstown and finally arriving in Te Anau around 6pm after a long and tiring 400 mile drive. It was good that we could share the driving as this mileage is rather long on these roads. There was an awful lot of road works and resurfacing taking place.. The route we took is quite spectacular at times with mountains and plains and lakes and hills and cattle by the thousand.
The Hotel is in the middle of town, which we know from a previous stay, and then went to dinner at the local Ming Gardens Chinese Restaurant which we had also previously used on our last visit here. The food was very good as usual but the costs seem to have increased somewhat.
