So Thursday morning we left the KE group and got the bus back to Queens town. This was a hilarious experience after a quiet peaceful morning in the lovely little town of Tekapo visiting the tiny church,
Packing up from the surprisingly friendly, clean and we'll appointed motel with a splendid lake view
And enjoying 2 hours of relaxation at last!
Enjoy used the talking toilets in the car park before we left, quite an experience! But the bus journey was hilarious; complete chaos boarding as the passengers who had already been on the 3 buses had all had a 20 minute break, and came back to find that their buses had all had their destination signs changed. Now a lot of tourists in New Zealand have limited English, are exhausted from travelling and have no idea at all of the geography, so various Chinese, Asian, and Japanese travellers got on the wrong buses, insisted that their luggage was missing and generally caused chaos. Eventually the very firm and rather impatient drivers sorted them out!
We were entertained and irritated by several passengers, including one who wanted the driver to turn round after 30 minutes as he'd lost his documents, and a couple in the seats behind us having a loud and frank 'domestic' with the recurring theme of evidently bad behaviour at a wedding, hair cut too short, rude speech, disagreement regarding their current trip to Millford sound, etc etc. Thankfully sleep overtook them after a few hours! The journey took us back over the route we had previously travelled in bad weather so we got wonderful views of sheep
Empty roads
Packing up from the surprisingly friendly, clean and we'll appointed motel with a splendid lake view
And enjoying 2 hours of relaxation at last!
Enjoy used the talking toilets in the car park before we left, quite an experience! But the bus journey was hilarious; complete chaos boarding as the passengers who had already been on the 3 buses had all had a 20 minute break, and came back to find that their buses had all had their destination signs changed. Now a lot of tourists in New Zealand have limited English, are exhausted from travelling and have no idea at all of the geography, so various Chinese, Asian, and Japanese travellers got on the wrong buses, insisted that their luggage was missing and generally caused chaos. Eventually the very firm and rather impatient drivers sorted them out!
We were entertained and irritated by several passengers, including one who wanted the driver to turn round after 30 minutes as he'd lost his documents, and a couple in the seats behind us having a loud and frank 'domestic' with the recurring theme of evidently bad behaviour at a wedding, hair cut too short, rude speech, disagreement regarding their current trip to Millford sound, etc etc. Thankfully sleep overtook them after a few hours! The journey took us back over the route we had previously travelled in bad weather so we got wonderful views of sheep
Farm irrigation on a vast scale
And mount Cook in the distance.
Queens town is a hot spot for adrenaline junkies, full of young sporty noisy busy youngsters, expensive equipment shops , every sort of cuisine, and noise. It pulsates with young energy. Checking into the YHA we felt very old! We had a 'devilburger' for tea, and caused I think some amusement among the rest of the clientele all in their twenties and then we slouched around the lake front soaking up the atmosphere.including a pipe and drum band!
Off very early in the morning
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