A Sunset
The final leg of our New Zealand odyssey was upon us, and we had saved one of the best sights till last. We began the day saying goodbye to Lake Tekapo for the last big driving day of both the holiday and my ambitious itinerary. Thankfully the weather had finally got the memo. The clouds and rain had completely vanished overnight, replaced by stonking blue skies stretching from horizon to horizon. Mount Sunday, aka Edoras from LOTR The drive from Lake Tekapo to Mount Sunday Lookout Point, better known to most people as the kingdom fortress of Edoras from The Lord of the Rings took around two and a half hours. The scenery made the time disappear, although the final half hour along a dusty gravel road slowed things down somewhat. The route took us through the vast Canterbury High Country, an enormous landscape of braided rivers, sheep stations and glacially carved valleys lying in the shadow of the Southern Alps. It is a part of New Zealand that feels almost impossibly open, with di...
