Franz Josef to Wanaka

Today was mostly about moving our base-camp from Franz to Wanaka and enjoying the trip.

The journey south to Haast impressed with yet more mountains; yet more forests; yet more coastline; yet more rivers.

At Haast we headed inland and were assaulted by a series of just unbelievable views of mountains, rivers, waterfalls, lakes and hills.

Imagine the Lake District, but turned up to 11. No photograph will do it justice – probably best just jump on the next available flight.

A little shellshocked by the beauty of our journey, we arrived in Wanaka; a much larger, much busier and much more touristy town than we’ve seen so far. The change in pace will be fun.

A quick shout-out to Joe who secured us an amazing set-up for our stay here; it’s just beautiful Joe, thank you!