Henmer Sprungs

Hanmer Springs is on the South Island of New Zealand. It's about 2 hours easy drive from Christchurch through almost untouched country side. These mountains are covered in snow in winter and people ski there. The people are great and the air is fresh and clean..except when you smell the thermal pools..erk! Pure sulphur. It's a great little spot but people are increasingly building there. You can't build out the mountains. You turn around in the village and there they are. Huge, majestic and breathtaking. Bit bigger than our Adelaide Hills, which look like crumpled green bedsheets!