Saturday, January 23, 2010

NZ (17 Dec): Queenstown-Arrowtown

Weather: Part cloud/windy

Did a day trip to Arrowtown. I think the one-way drive was about 50min or so. Interestingly, there is a Chinese settlement in Arrowtown many years ago!

One of the restored houses. The interior definitely doesn't look as good as the external facade.

Lunch:
There were many meal options, ranging from Japanese to Thai and Italian food. One would be spoilt for choices especially lunch as many of these restaurants offered NZD10 lunch special.We had thai food which wasn’t so great. Think we ordered the wrong dish lah.. the coconut soup was really cooked in coconut milk. A bit “ger-lart” after a while.
Tham Nai Thai Restaurant - give it a miss!

Coconut soup
Err... fried vege with rice


We had wanted to do jetboating and the cheapest option we found was Kawarau Jetboating, costing NZD95/pax for an hour of jetboating on Shotover River and Kawarau River. Quite expensive hoh?? Hahhaa!! Anyway, we didn’t do it, partly because of the cost while the other was because I thought jetboating was no longer unique ;p

Dinner:
Read about this reasonably-priced fish & chips hut by the seaside so we went to look for it and found the place!
The humble hut
I don't remember how much this cost. It is good for 2 persons. Think about NZD30.

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