A short drive from Wanaka is the very pretty and historic Arrowtown. We had to drive through the Cordrona Gorge to get to it and passed the old historic Cordrona Hotel which has the old hotel building, school house and post office all restored.

Arrowtown is tiny and geared to tourists but has a nice feel to it. We’ve stopped for lunch at the old Postmasters house which is very quaint, with very English china tea cups and what can only be described as an English cottage garden surrounding the veranda.

Next we plan to amble around and I might even visit the little museum here.

A little bit of history for you. Settled in 1860 this tiny place found one of the richest alluvial gold fields in NZ and sparked an immense gold rush with over 4000 immigrants coming to grab it. It had a china town and plenty of ruffians and baddies to make it a true wild west.

Today there are 2000 inhabitants.

History lesson over..

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