Day 10 - Routeburn

Up early today as we had the Routeburn trail booked. After meeting Suzanne our guide for the day we jumped into our minibus to go up to the start of the trail.  

After being blessed with great weather to date it decided to rain !!!!   so we put the wet weather gear on and off we went. 

It was a hard ascent up the side of the alpine pass as we got wetter and wetter.  There were some stunning waterfalls on the way 

We kept going until we got to the plains where once we got to the hut we had a packed lunch.  it did stop raining at that point for a short while. 


We descended much faster than going up and arrived back at the minibus 16k later , very wet and tired.   

Of course it was sunny when we got back to Queenstown.  We are going go eat in the hotel tonight and may reward ourselves with a less physical day tomorrow  and maybe be a cocktail tonight. 


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