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WANAKA NOVEMBER <strong>2016</strong> 31<br />
Relaxing Lakeside Holiday Resort<br />
Plenty to see at Puzzling World<br />
Wanaka offers the perfect<br />
surroundings to truly relax on a<br />
lakeside holiday. The township is a<br />
busy resort and service centre for<br />
the region’s many visitors who enjoy<br />
its amenities year round.<br />
The variety of indoor and outdoor<br />
activities is extensive within the local<br />
area, with plenty of choice to suit all<br />
ages and budgets. Lake Wanaka<br />
is New Zealand’s fourth largest lake<br />
with clear pristine waters in depths<br />
that plunge to below sea level.<br />
Take a boat trip to the conservation<br />
island of Mou Wahu, go fishing or<br />
take a scenic cruise for spectacular<br />
views back to the township.<br />
Wonderful proximity to the lake<br />
and mountains also offers adventure<br />
activities such as heli bikinig,<br />
white water rafting and sledging,<br />
parasailing, jet boating, yachting,<br />
water skiing, horse treks, quad biking<br />
and 4WD safaris. Lake Wanaka is<br />
also the gateway to Mt Aspiring<br />
National Park where there are<br />
unmatched tramping and climbing<br />
opportunities is one of the country’s<br />
most unspoiled wilderness areas.<br />
Attractions include the intriguing<br />
Puzzling World and Great Maze, the<br />
Transport and Toy Museum, while<br />
at Wanaka Airport you could try<br />
tandem sky diving, take a scenic<br />
flight, visit the New Zealand Pilot’s<br />
Museum and discover the largest<br />
collection of World War 2 fighter<br />
planes in the <strong>Southern</strong> Hemisphere.<br />
But more leisurely pursuits might<br />
entice you to the range of cafes<br />
and restaurants in Wanaka, a<br />
visit to the historic 1863 Cardrona<br />
Hotel, a soul soothing treatment at<br />
Sanctuary Day Spa, wine tasting<br />
at Rippon Vineyard or an evening<br />
movie at the quirky Cinema<br />
Paradiso.<br />
But whatever fills your days<br />
in Wanaka, be sure to enjoy a<br />
lakeside barbecue and watch<br />
the breathtaking sunset against a<br />
backdrop of lake and mountains.<br />
A firm belief in giving customers<br />
more “bang for their buck” and<br />
encouraging them to truly absorb<br />
themselves in the illusionary themeing,<br />
the team at Puzzling World have<br />
continuously added and improved<br />
features between each of<br />
their five Illusion Rooms –<br />
an area they call “the<br />
walls of wonder.<br />
Paintings from<br />
Alaska and Bali,<br />
wall hangings<br />
from Peru and<br />
prints from some<br />
of the world’s<br />
leaders in illusionary<br />
art from the 19th<br />
Century to modern<br />
times demonstrate<br />
just how universal the<br />
popularity of optical<br />
illusions are throughout<br />
history and across the<br />
globe.<br />
You’ll discover<br />
Canada’s Robert<br />
Gonsalves’ works<br />
of “magical realism”<br />
complementing the “impossible<br />
reality” of the Dutch master, M.C<br />
Escher. Further along, Ambigrams, a<br />
type of illusionary word-art is explored<br />
while being watched on by NZ’s<br />
first Virtual Assistant – a projected<br />
holographic guide to assist customers<br />
within the rooms.<br />
The provocative paintings of<br />
Andre Martins de Barros, a Spaniard<br />
who specializes in creating human<br />
form through everyday objects sits<br />
comfortably alongside Victorian-era<br />
illustrations like ‘Vanity’ which ranks<br />
as perhaps the first of its kind to bring<br />
optical illusion art into the<br />
mainstream.<br />
An incredible<br />
3-dimensional knit<br />
of Einstein hangs<br />
alongside an<br />
Amish inspired<br />
cuboid design,<br />
followed by a<br />
more walls of<br />
brain-bending<br />
images and massive<br />
window decals<br />
to give an ethereal<br />
stained glass feel to the<br />
Sculptillusion Gallery.<br />
And the latest addition<br />
is a fun one - a huge<br />
Lenticular image of<br />
a transforming Lion –<br />
from King of the Pride to<br />
Smoking Rasta!<br />
As Operations and<br />
Marketing Manager Duncan Spear<br />
puts it, “While we firmly believe that<br />
the Illusion Rooms themselves are<br />
spectacular in their own right, the<br />
plentiful wall space that separates<br />
the rooms have provided us with<br />
a “blank canvas” to explore other<br />
themes of optical illusions and has<br />
been fun to fill!”<br />
WANAKA<br />
NOVEMBER <strong>2016</strong><br />
9 GATHERING OF GEEZERS CHARITABLE DINNER WARBIRDS & WHEELS<br />
12 GYPSY EXTRAVAGANZA MARKET & FAIR WANAKA<br />
DECEMBER <strong>2016</strong><br />
31 NEW YEARS EVE CELEBRATIONS LAKE FRONT WANAKA<br />
JANUARY 2017<br />
2 WANAKA RODEO<br />
19 SOVEREIGN TRI SERIES ROYS BAY RESERVE<br />
FEBRUARY 2017<br />
13 CHALLENGE WANAKA TRIATHLON<br />
MARCH 2017<br />
4 MOTATAPU OFF ROAD RACE<br />
10-11 WANAKA A&P SHOW<br />
APRIL 2017<br />
4-9 FESTIVAL OF COLOUR VARIOUS VENUES<br />
22 CONTACT EPIC MTB LAKE HAWEA HOTEL<br />
WAnAkA’S only<br />
toWn centre hotel<br />
- enjoy spectacular lake and mountain views<br />
NB WARBIRDS OVER WANAKA IS A BI-ENNIAL EVENT AND WILL NEXT TAKE PLACE IN<br />
APRIL 2018.<br />
Welcome to Wanaka’s<br />
wonderful world of weirdness<br />
Bizarre buildings, rooms of illusion and our famous maze will<br />
baffle your brain and challenge your perceptions of reality.<br />
Seeing is disbelieving!<br />
71 Ardmore Street, Wanaka - Ph 0800 473 288<br />
www.wanakahotel.co.nz<br />
PUZZLING WORLD<br />
188 Wanaka Luggate Hwy 84, Wanaka 9382<br />
P: 03 443 7489 E: info@puzzlingworld.co.nz<br />
www.puzzlingworld.co.nz
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