This place is absolutely beautiful. No description, no photo, no video could do it justice.
It feels as though you are standing in a postcard. Here's why.
We are used to seeing mountains back home. Just look outside any west-facing window and you are likely to get a mountain view that people are impressed by.
Go to Queenstown, and even more so, because you are right in amongst it.
But even in Queenstown, I have never seen an effect like this. I learnt about it at varsity, but don't remember experiencing it. Till I got here.
Blue haze. We see it every day, and do not even realise it. When we see mountains in the distance, it is usually through a blue haze. This is how our brain decides that it is in the distance.
I don't know what causes the blue haze, but it's a good bet that pollution is involved.
When something is close, no haze. When it is far, haze. Every day.
Up here, there is no haze, so those mountains look sooo close. Everything looks so close. That's why it feels like we are in a postcard. It feels like you can reach out and touch it.
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