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With vast open spaces, mountain landscapes, charming beaches, the climate was warm and beautiful natural scenery. With all this perfection, the new couples who want a honeymoon, adventure lovers to vacationing families can go to this country, because New Zealand can make lulled.

Tourist town Queenstown is one of more than 150 locations where director Peter Jackson filming a Hollywood movie. In this city there are four seasons lake pride in New Zealand and the mountain inn. Located on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, this magical place will bring your imagination to drift, increase your passion and spirit.

The history of this area associated with gold. In 1862, two sheep shaving 'hit sustenance' gold in the Shotover River. Then, the city life because of gold mining Queenstown was named because ". Suitable for Queen Victoria."

Adventure activities such as snow sports, bungy jumping, jet boat, horse riding and rafting. You can also pamper yourself while on vacation while the food and wine tasting, boating on the lake, spa treatments, shopping in boutiques and playing golf.

Queenstown is full of restaurants, nightclubs and cafes and other adventures, and full of spirit activity. Over the years, the city has been pretty much doing another expansion in tourism, including wineries, art galleries, street art and challenge of golf courses.

Loosen your muscles

Dinner might be a matter of course in other countries, but special if you're in Queenstown. There are more than 100 restaurants taste here - ranging from classy restaurants, stylish cafes, family restaurants, sushi bars, ... You can choose according to taste.

During summer and autumn, locals usually happy to eat their dinner at a sidewalk cafe, like a garden restaurant, while enjoying food and a glass of wine. You can enjoy all that in when the weather is warm while the sun sets at 10 pm. In winter, the fireplace is lit and warm foods that are specially made by the restaurant ready to be served with a glass of wine to warm your body.

Queenstown is part of the Central Otago region. Local Wine has often received awards. Every moment is a great time to visit the famous Central Otago Pinot noirs with wine type. There are 45 vineyards in Central Otago and wine-grape growing rapidly until selurh world famous. Pinot noirs from the region's highly acclaimed and sought after, although other types of grapes grew well with high quality -planted in on the ground shaly with harsh climate of trust is very conducive to grape production .

If interested, you can join a tour of the wine or can rent a car and visiting vineyards in Gibbston Valley, the main areas producing wine in Queenstown. Gibbston Valley Wines, the first commercial vineyard in Queenstown, famous for his lunch meals and try to taste wine. You can also make a tour of the cave wine and cheese factory.

Experienced serving guests for more than a century, has developed infrastructure Queenstown accommodation in every market. There are more than six representatives of the international hotels here. Many hotels and resorts can be reached by foot from the city center while enjoying the scenery. Some deluxe accommodations featuring the beautiful architectural style with furniture and exceptional service. Accommodations are usually small in size, serving 4-6 people just enough, and usually included with a luxury service.

In addition, you also can enjoy the sport of golf. Queenstown has four programs, including Millbrook. You can spend a day and pamper yourself at the spa, or spend time in the morning to shop at boutiques are available in Queenstown.

Beautiful rainbow you can see on Lake Wakatipu. There, you can catch fresh fish, rainbow, brown freshwater fish and salmon quinnat throughout the year. Permits can be obtained in the city and guides can take you where fishing best.

If you want to travel to the lake, you can charter a yacht, which is tailored to individuals or groups. If you want to be alone, you can travel by boat cruise from Queenstown and then take shelter in the mountains, especially in Lake Wakatipu.

Time for adventure!

If you're an adventurer, Queenstown is the perfect place to test your adrenaline. The place is dubbed as the "Adventure Capital of the World" - the adventure capital of the world. A nickname is created by thrill-seekers, who dare to play their adrenaline, and adventure on the wild environment.

Bungy jumping scary action was derived from this country. There are a myriad of activities you can do here, such as: sky diving, mountain climbing, rafting, kayaking, fishing, horse riding, cycling, walking in debt, beautiful flying, sailing, surfing, jet boating, gliding and Nevis bungy! In winter, the mountains covered with white mist that makes it a great place to do skiing, snow car, snowboard, heliski and parapent.

Wanaka

Wanaka is located behind the Southern Alps on South Island, New Zealand. This place is very peaceful, only about one hour if you drive by car from Queenstown. Close to Mount Aspiring National Park, this area is a natural paradise located in the beautiful lake.

The hustle and bustle of life in Wanaka much calmer than in Queenstown, but the region also offers the same activities. So, if you want to do paragliding, jet boat or rap jumping in a calmer atmosphere, Wanaka is the proper place.

There is also a restaurant with good taste and some bars. Many of the rumor, the best carrot cake can be found at lakeside cafes in Wanaka.

Lake Wanaka is located right in the middle of the other lakes. He is the gateway to Mt. Aspiring National Park, famous for glaciers and places to climb. The mountains around the lake is a paradise for lovers of skiing. The city itself has a village to shop with a wide range of atmosphere to relax, eat and drink.

Slow pace and biological surroundings. You will not be able to feel the atmosphere of the place before exploring it on foot.

Eely Point Walk is the activity of walking beside Lake Wanaka. You can reach it in 15 minutes. Sheltered from the wind, Eely Point is a region famous for boating and picnic. Then, it took five minutes to continue the journey to Bremner Bay, a shallow bay which is very popular for a family swim.

From Bremner Bay, this route will follow the shoreline of Lake Wanaku down to Penrith Beach, featuring a beautiful lake and mountain scenery around. By following the road from Penrith Beach, you can enjoy Lake Outlet Walk.

Waterfall Creek Walk starts from the left side of Roys Bay - which is the main beach on Lake Wanaka. The place was following the coastline down to Wanaka part of Damper Bay. Wanaka Station Park, on the left near Waterfall Creek Walk, is the proper place for a picnic. The route continues along the road in front of Edgewater Resort Hotel and Rippon Vineyard down to Waterfall Creek. Then continue up to the summit, which offers beautiful scenery and lakes of Wanaka Township.

Arrowtown

One of the most beautiful settlement in Arrowtown New Zealand is located along the River Arrow, which was once a place of panning for gold. The city was to maintain the value of its history with more than 60 buildings that were rebuilt from the 19th century. Gold charm that you can see along the way (though you can still take the gold in the river).

Only 20 minutes if you drive from Queenstown, Arrowtown is the center of the best wineries, artist galleries, golf courses, fishing and ski area. You can also explore the settlement of Chinese miners, and visited the Lake District Museum, play in local golf course that challenges or trying to travel down to Macetown 4WD, a ghost town that is only accessible by railroad. Arrowtown has a range of cafes, restaurants and interesting shops.

The weather in winter and shady in the spring to replace the days of long summer and autumn are amazing. Change of season is the best reflection of the history of the trees that lined the roadside. Fall Festival featuring the great photographer and artist who can provide inspiration.

Glenorchy

About 40 minutes from Queenstown, there is a rural town in Glenorchy, western tip of Lake Wakatipu, with background on indigenous people's forest and mountains covered with snow.

This place is known as the gateway to the Routeburn, Caples, Greenstone, Rees and Dart Valley route. In addition, can also be the location of jet boat and kayak play at Dart River. You can contact your local authority if you plan to run on one track. Horseback riding is also highly recommended. The city also has a variety of lodging, a hotel and several cafes. A good idea to buy climbing gear near Queenstown.

More than a third of Rotorua are Maori, so the area is the best place to throw themselves in the indigenous culture of New Zealand. Rotorua has a remarkable history, who will be happy to local Maori population is divided so that enrich your experience. Their stories are very captivating.

Go back to the Tamaki Maori Village. In the depths of the forest, you will get a clear picture of how the lifestyle and traditions of Maori, from pre-European times to the present. See and learn about traditional Maori art is preserved in the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute. You can talk to an expert carving and weaving and learn the history and process involved in every form of art.

Do not forget the hot spa bath in the clear at the Blue Baths, which displays the building's colorful past. Then, enjoy a meal on the upper floor and enjoy the scenery of the beautiful Government Gardens.

Also Visit excavation site at Te Wairoa, a village buried by the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886. Enjoy a hangi meal and a Maori concert on Mokoia Island or at a hotel in the city.

Natural beauty

Lake Rotorua, though looks beautiful and peaceful, has a cruel history. Large volcano erupted in the region about 200 thousand years ago, creating a caldera 16 km in diameter. Caldera was then filled with water and become the second largest lake in the North Island. Rotorua and 15 other lakes in the area that connect with caldera Rotorua and Mount Tarawera.

According to legend, the Europeans found the geysers and mud pools of Rotorua in the 1880s, which is now the city's largest decoy. Pohutu geyser famous, as well as other geysers located elsewhere in the region, is the attraction to be seen. Pohutu hot springs, in the Whakarewarewa Thermal Valley, erupted several times a day, spraying hot water up to 30 m into the air.

That is not to be missed also is spring spa therapy, and soak in thermal pools. You can also mud bath, which will make your skin feel smooth as silk.

Rotorua is one of the best health spas in New Zealand. Hell's Gate is a waterfall of hot water only in the Southern Hemisphere. Enjoy the experience of bathing as a family at Polynesian Spa.

Maximum Tension

Rotorua promises satisfaction for the adrenaline junkie - even that level is even worse. Many adventure that will spur the thrill and adrenalin, with typical New Zealand's best scenery.

Overcome your fears and feel a tandem parachute jump from a height of 4500 meters. Jumped from the plane is once in a lifetime experience that you should try. Gliding down from 4,500 meters to give you the opportunity look at the Rotorua lakes and forests that is unrivaled.

You can also glide over the scree - full of steep gravel slope - on Mount Tarawera or Mount Ngongotaha, and listen to the screams of other gliders in the air.

You are in the perfect place for whitewater rafting in New Zealand. This is a popular activity throughout the year. You can challenge the currents in the Kaituna River (level five), Wairoa (level five) and the Rangitaiki (level four). Kaituna River you will encounter a waterfall as high as 7 m Tutea - the highest waterfall commercially forded.

Family Entertainment

Rotorua is the place of family fun vacation adventure. There is always something for everyone, whatever their age. For example, driving by car ferry and shaving the sheep, to spinning with a jet boat.

Visit the Hobbiton Movie Set & Farm Tour, which is based on the original location of Hobbiton in the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings". You will be guided to explore the sites of 4 hectares and told interesting details about the making of the film.

Activities on the farm is not less exciting, such as shaving and feeding sheep or milking cows. There is also a demonstration of sheep herding and sheep auction. When visiting the organic kiwi fruit garden, you can stop for wine tasting kiwi fruit and honey.

Want to see lions, fish, giant eels, waterfowl, deer and other? Paradise Valley Springs place.

For some sensation derivatives, zorbing is another crazy adventure that found by the Kiwis. "Zorbonauts" spin down a steep hillside in a big rubber ball filled with air.

Get on the boat jet to down the Waikato River through the spectacular gorge Tutukau. Discover the flora and fauna native and one of the most popular attractions in New Zealand is geothermal thermal Riverjet in safari.

For an unforgettable dining experience, follow the adventures of Indigenous Food Trail. This is a food trail in the forest which aims to educate visitors about the native cuisine Maori and indigenous herbs and plants used, and led by a local expert Charles Royal. Charles, to create this tour exclusively for Treetops Lodge and Wilderness Estate, who has had experience of more than 20 years of Maori food.

In fact, Derawan islands are areas with coral reefs second richest in the world. Extensive coral reefs no less than 66 thousand hectares. Diversity of coral reefs in this region amounted to more than 507 species, can only be defeated by the diversity in Raja Ampat Islands, Papua.

The islands also became the center of the green turtle nesting Chelonia mydas alias. Almost every night there are green turtles in a dark corner of the beach There is also a hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricata or very rare.

Ancient Lake Kakaban

Once satisfied playing with manta, we continued our journey to the waters around Kakaban. The island is special because there is adjoining ancient lakes contain salty water. The lake was originally the lagoon has changed shape due to the removal of millions of mainland last year. Sea water and all its contents are caught in the middle to form a unique ecosystem.

Kakaban inhabited four types of jellyfish which has lost its sting. Jellyfish sting not only exists at two places in the world. Besides Kakaban they can be found in the Republic of Palau, one of the countries in the Pacific Islands.

Jellyfish meets the lake like cendol. Aurelia aurita wide saucer-shaped nodes. Cassiopeia ornata swim upside down with tentacles on top. Papua Martigias brown with a total at most. We raced to find Tripedalia cystophora, jellyfish tip of a nail the most rarely found.

The lake has its own system to balance the population in the bottom of the lake there is an anemone jellyfish predator. The size of a finger, white, transparent with tendrils. Just try to hold the jellyfish tendrils, he ate jellyfish with smoked it.

To go to the lake we have to go through dense forest to the timber docks. Stairs continued into the woods, climbed the hill. The lake is behind the small hill. After walking a few hundred yards, up the hill efforts paid off already. The sky and sea so blue. The fresh air blowing from the island green.

In the center of the page there are 16 buildings of the temple. which became the parent of the other temples. For safety and convenience, visitors will be accompanied by a friendly staff and loyal.

The architectural, building Kalasan have a distinctive style, which is wide and protrudes out. In each of the viewer, there are several chambers of the four cardinal directions (west, east, south and north). In addition to adorning the four chambers of the outer side, there are also booths containing a throne made? of stone and has a pedestal, while the rest are on either side that there is a lion statue which stands on an elephant.

Sambisari discovered in 1966, by a farmer who was hoeing Karyowinangun property, then, the spade hit on the stone ukirang which is the cornerstone of the temple ruins.

If entered into the temple area then you can see a Lingga and Yoni. Lingga is itself a manifestation of Shiva, while Yoni is a manifestation of Sakti (wife) of Shiva. As for the exterior, you'll find some of the Hindu pantheon, namely Durga Mahisasuramardhini (north), Ganesh (east), Agastya (south), Mahakala and Nandiswara as a doorman. From these signs it can be seen that the religious background Sambisari is "Çiwaistis."

Of the three temples that we visit it can be seen that these temples is the pattern of Hindu-Buddhist-influenced by the socio-cultural context, especially in the Indian classical.

Ancient heritage has many benefits, one can know what faith is embraced by the public long ago, and hopefully useful.

Bayon

Bayon Temple is known as the Front (Temple of Faces). When you visit it, will very easily find out the reason behind the name - while climbing the steep stone steps toward the holy temple, hundreds of faces will look in your direction. 

Although they seem to smile, I feel there is a little dangerous weather, as if waiting for makers of stone statues were to walk back from the forest. Although many temples were destroyed, it is still easy to imagine the incredible sight when the complex was first built - the house really worth the earth for the gods.

Banteay Srei

During the first ten minutes at Banteay Srei, you will continue to stare amazed intricate carvings on every inch the rock, wondering what exactly is it made ​​of wood. Even with today's technology, almost unbelievable that the intricate patterns and details on the statue could be made ​​in stone. This temple, unlike the others, made ​​of red sandstone that is more easily carved and give reddish gold hue on the complex.

Most of the entrance and the tower of the temple are still preserved and intact condition (be careful of your head because the doors are quite short!), but some sculpture at the side of the staircase is actually a replica. Original statue is stolen or has been stored in museums. If there is an art contest, Banteay Srei will win easily because of the originality and attention to detail.

Ta Prohm

If you ever watch Tomb Raider, some movie scenes that take place in the temple of Ta Prohm, do not need special effects to give the impression of sinister and surreal. Temple complex is located in a state of near-collapse. For centuries, rooted tree on the temple walls. The conservationists temple let the trees because, so it has its roots, strengthen the construction of the temple tree. If omitted, then the remaining temple will collapse.

Ta Prohm has a magical effect similar to the Bayon, it feels like anyone who built the temple or to live there were out briefly for a walk, and for exploring the spaces hidden temple is a violation. Find a quiet corner, relax and feel the mystical Ta Prohm.

Though only 20 years ago this area off limits to tourists, local residents were terrorized and dominated by the fear of one of the most brutal regimes in the world.

Amazing Angkor Wat

The temple is a source of national pride and international recognition, encased reliefs of the Hindu epic Ramayana. Like most Hindu temples in Asia, Angkor Wat looks more beautiful at dawn or before sunset, when the sky filled with colors that highlight the five towers.

Nine Figures

For the first Asian to know you have to understand the trust on the continent, and this is seen clearly in the environment of Angkor Thom, a temple that was glued to the number nine. Saying "nine" is similar to the word "development", and almost everything on the temple can be compared to this figure - 54 towers carved, 216 faces in the tower, 54 gods to the left of the entrance, and 54 demons on his right - all these figures can be added up to a point 9.

Other Temples

Bayon is also known as "Temple's face", and when you are there, easy to understand why the name was girded. Once you climb the stone steps to the shrine inside the temple, when looking up will appear hundreds of stone carving faces looking at you. There is also Banteay Srei, a temple filled with amazing carvings fulfill every inch of stone there. Even with current technology, almost impossible to make the patterns as precisely and as complex as it is in stone sculpture.

River Revitalization

About 50 km northeast of Siem Reap, there is the Thousand Linga River flows into the river in Siem Reap are essentially filled with carvings Linga - the symbol of phallus which is very common in Cambodia. Estimates, carvings were made ​​between 1100-1300 to symbolize fertility. Now the river is a perfect place to enjoy the tropical beauty of Siem Reap.

Tonle Sap

 

Siem Reap not only has a world famous archaeological sites, but also has one of the largest and most colorful lakes in Southeast Asia. 

UNESCO has set the Tonle Sap as a biosphere reserve, nature reserve is a habitat for wildlife water several rare birds and became the only river in the world that the water flow changed two times a year.

Contemporary Art

Fine art in Siem Reap is in progress, you can find everything from cheap souvenirs to expensive art work. Some noteworthy places art lovers, among others: the McDermott Gallery, where world-class photography will Angkor and the surrounding area display; The Red Gallery, which has the most diverse collection of contemporary art from Cambodia, and The Asia Craft Center, where various kinds of traditional crafts in Cambodia and Southeast Asia.

Colonial Architecture

Siem Reap has colonial era buildings of the French heritage that is now converted properly. Located at the intersection and roundabout calm, the buildings became hotels, restaurants and the best gallery in Siem Reap, such as the Raffles Grand Hotel D'Angkor, the most luxurious hotels in the city was founded in 1932. The hotel was once visited by many VIP guests, including King Norodom Sihanouk, Charlie Chaplin, the Sultan of Johor and even Jacqueline Kennedy.