Arrowtown

Woke today to cold, wet weather. Walked down to the lake for a coffee anyway.

Denise and Michael arrived at 11.30 and we headed off to Arrowtown.

Arrowtown is a historic gold mining town. It is located on the banks of the Arrow River, 19.5 kilometres to the east of Queenstown.

There are many well preserved buildings that were used by the European and Chinese immigrants who settled during the town's gold mining era which began after gold was discovered in 1862.

It is well geared to tourism with many up market shops in the old buildings. They are mainly either clothing shops or gold, jade and opal jewellery shops and extremely expensive.

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