Lake Tekapo

Thursday morning we picked up our rented car from Hertz, just wanted to say how much fun it has been driving in New Zealand. It's seriously the best drive ever, you can never get bored!
The drive to Christchurch from Queenstown takes about 7 hours and we didn't wanna drive that much on the one day so we decided to have a stopover overnight at Lake Tekapo. It took us about 3 hours to drive there and We stayed at the Peppers bluewater resort and they upgraded our room, it was amazing. Huge apartment, double storey with 2 balconys looking out to the lake.
Lake Tekapo used to be a stopover to Mt Cook, but now it's a popular destinations for lots of international and domestic visitors. The colour of the water is like a turquoise blue which is very unique and is formed by 'rock flour'. The glaciers in the headwaters of Tekapo grind the rocks into fine dust on their way down to the lake. This 'rock flour' is then suspended into the lake and when the sunlight hits the water it creates this beautiful colour.

Also unique to the area of Lake Tekapo is the church of the good shepherd, which is set in the most beautiful location on a hilltop looking out to the lake. We took plenty of photos of this church, just couldn't get enough of it!

Lake tekapo is also known for its clear and darkest sky and it's spectacular to see the stars at night. There is an observatory which is run by Canterbury University and they run Star Gazing tours at night. We had booked one for that night however it was cancelled due to high wind so we were pretty disappointed.

We had dinner at Chinese Restaurant Jade Palace, it was really good value! We had buffet for 2 and got a bit of everything...definitely recommended considering the place next door which was Pepe's Pizza were selling their pizza's for 30 bucks each!!!! and they only had 6 flavours to choose from....hmmmmmm.

So far this Honeymoon is the best!!!!!

Wayne and Farrah
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