New Zealand | February 2016 | Third of Three New Zealand Posts

A view of Wanaka and Lake Wanaka. I took this photo from the hiking trail on Iron Mountain.

Hello Again. This is my third and final New Zealand post and features more photos of the gorgeous scenery of the South Island. I visited New Zealand back in 2016.

If you missed my first and second New Zealand posts, you can check them out by clicking here and here. Actually, if you haven’t seen the first and second posts, I suggest you check them out before this post.

The first post provides: an orientation to the South Island, an overview of my travels around the South Island, my remarks about the South Island, and also features images from in and around Milford Sound, Lake Pukaki, and Mount Cook. The second post features 30 or so photos from in and around Queenstown, Wanaka, and Haast, and I also provided a few images from the Mount Cook area.

This post features 14 more photographs (below). Clicking on a photo provides a higher quality lightbox view of the image.

A view from the Iron Mountain trail of the countryside surrounding Wanaka.

My usual reminder, if you scroll to the very end of this post, there is (as in all my posts) an area to leave comments or ask me any questions that you may have. As always, I would love to hear from you. I hope that you enjoyed this post.

And stay tuned for upcoming posts for destinations that I already visited (2016) in Laos, Australia, Myanmar, Japan, Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, South Korea, and China. And for destinations that I plan to visit this year (2017) in India, Nepal, Turkey, Dubai, Morocco, Jordan, and more.

The road leading into Wanaka.

Sheep grazing on a hilltop near Wanaka.

More countryside as seen from Iron Mountain just outside of Wanaka.

The town of Wanaka nestled alongside Lake Wanaka.

The main drag in Wanaka. It runs right alongside the lake.

Another view of the outskirts of Wanaka from the Iron Mountain trail.

A girl swimming in the ice-cold, glacier-fed Lake Wanaka. She swam out to this platform which is located about 100 meters offshore. And she stayed out there diving in and out of the water for about 30 minutes. Incredible!