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March 2004: Arrowtown and Queenstown
After a sumptious brunch in Wanaka on the Saturday morning we hit the trail again. We followed the Crown Range road southwards past Cardrona (the famous ski resort) and on to Arrowtown. Arrowtown is another one of the New Zealand towns that was established in the days of the gold rush.
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A major tourist attraction there is the preserved remains of an old village where the Chinese people lived who were brought in to work the rivers panning for gold. These people suffered race discrimination and lived under the most difficult circumstances — just see how small their huts were! Some of the huts were even set back into the side of the cliff, built into caves. Keep in mind that this countryside is blanketed with snow in the wintertime and the huts had no central heating!
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We stayed at a motel in Arrowtown that Saturday night, and the rest of Saturday and Sunday morning we spent exploring both Arrowtown, and the nearby Queenstown on the shore of lake Wakatipu. In Queenstown we walked along the harbour, visited the Kiwi bird park and took the Skyline cable car (called a gondola) up to the lookout point.
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