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Breakfast is served in our
room at 7:30am.: egg benedict, musli and yogurt, local nectarines
with orange juice and coffee. Then we are ready for the road.
However, after riding just a couple of kilometers, we stop to buy
some fresh fruits at one of the stalls lining the road.
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We have a pleasant head wind
as we cruise through the gorgeous Kawarau Gorge.
Believe it or not, but the
oncoming traffic is occasionally heavy.
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We head upstream the Kawarau
River, and stop every now and then to take pictures.
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At noon we are in Gibbston,
and Waitiri Creek Winery for lunch.
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Cold tomato and Pinot Noir
soup with bread.
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Blue cheese and caramelized
onion tart.
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Bungee jumping from Kawarau
Bridge. The company advertises itself as “The world's first and
most infamous of leaps is still going strong, with tens of
thousands Bungy jumping each year.”
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Tourists strolling, taking
pictures downtown Arrowtown.
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Cafe Mondo in Arrowtown has
nice artwork on walls.
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Another streetview of
Arrowtown.
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Ride down from Arrowtown to
Queenstown consists of steep uphills and downhills. There are
also several one-lane bridges to cross.
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View to Wakatipu Lake from
our room at Lakeside Motel (NZ$139) , Queenstown.
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We start the evening with
Emerson Brewery's beers (from Dunedin) at Atlas Beer Cafe: IPA and
bitter. Later we return for Belgian style duppel and porter. In
between we have some tapas in Vudu.
Today we ride (only) 65.56K
in 4:56'51 (avg 13.2kph, max 45.5kph) Surprisingly hard day ---
perhaps it was the head wind and sporadic steep climbs in the end.
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