The travel books don’t say much about Wanaka, and Graham and I almost didn’t even stop there.  Thankfully we did, as it has by far been my favorite place to visit so far.  I haven’t fallen so instantly in love with a place since I visited Lake Como on my first international trip in 2005.  The town is located on a lake with amazing mountains in the background.  It’s a bike friendly city with tons of parks, a vegetarian grocery store/deli, tons of ethnic food (Indian, Thai), a yoga studio and plenty of complementary medicine practitioners, a funky movie theatre, and… wait for it… a Mexican restaurant!

I spent most of my time there wishing for more, and after a short evening, we woke up in time to walk to Puzzling World (a ridiculously dorky but super fun puzzle place including optical illusions and a maze) before our bus took us to Queenstown.  I’m already longing to go back…

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