A quirky New Zealand attraction – Stuart Landsborough’s Puzzling World, on the shores of Lake Wanaka – has just landed in an international list of weird tourist attractions.
Lined up against a list that includes Delhi’s museum of toilets, a jellyfish lake, and a Texas prison with an electric chair, Puzzling World’s entry could also qualify as the most family friendly.
The World’s Top 10 Weirdest Tourist Attractions listed on travel website IGoUgo.com is compiled from traveller’s feedback on unique tourist attractions that defied convention.
It may seem an unlikely combination for one of New Zealand’s former top skiers to be head winemaker at a well-known vineyard, but for Rippon’s Nick Mills it is a perfect blend.
Nick, 33, plays an integral part in the family business that has operated on prime land over-looking Lake Wanaka since the early 1980s. But before he decided to take up the reins at Rippon Vineyard, he was busy skiing slopes all over the world in the pursuit of his Olympic dream.
The picturesque Rippon Vineyard is situated on land initially used for farming that has been in the Mills family for generations...
Lake Wanaka is blessed with a number of golf courses – all quite different and some of them definitely quirky…
The Department of Conservation in Wanaka has embarked on a new project aimed at finding out the extent of native bats (pekapeka) in Makarora.
It was the concern over the absence of native birds and a desire to look after the special environment they live and work in that prompted Brent and Sue Pihama of Wanaka River Journeys to establish a pest control project in the West Wanaka Conservation Area.
Take the family on a ski holiday to remember in Lake Wanaka and at a fantastic price. Great family a...
