Arrowtown

Arrowtown is a historic gold mining tourist town, just north of Queenstown on New Zealand's South Island. We called in for breakfast and a quick look around, prior to heading to the airport at the end of our trip.

Here it is, or at least here it was, when I was there in 1990.

Here it is the other week. Looks about the same, except the cars have got bigger, and do a better job of obscuring the historic buildings.

There was just time to visit the museum, or at least the 'Tribal Warriors' exhibition there. There were warriors from all over the world. Except New Zealand that is. A bit odd, as New Zealand's Maoris pride themselves for their warrior past, or so I thought. The museum lady confirmed my suspicion that it has become a 'politically sensitive' issue.