Puzzling World - Must do in Wanaka
If on your trip in New Zealand you will reach the town Wanaka on the South Island, then don’t leave until you spent at least half a day at Puzzling World. There is really something interesting for everyone from children to adults. The entrance fee is low relative to other attractions available in the town and you get to spend as much time as you like inside. I will briefly go over all the attractions that you will encounter in Puzzling World:
1. Huge Labyrinth - consisting of 1.5km (1 mile) of passages. This is a really interesting “puzzle”. There are two challenges for you there. One is simpler and the other is harder. It took me about an hour to complete the difficult challenge of this maze, and I am 29 years old. So it means that adults will also enjoy this. For less patient people there are emergency doors in the maze so you can quit whenever you like (loooosers!). The best thing - is to watch other people struggling to find their way in the labyrinth.
2. Room with following faces - after completing the maze you can enter the big hall with many faces of famous people on its spheric walls. As you go from face to face these faces are seem to follow you - as if they were turning their heads to see where are you going. If anybody knows how this works please tell me!

3. Hologram Hall - here you will see huge amount of fascinating holograms. They claim that this collection of holograms is unique in the world, and I tend to believe it.
4. A rooms with optic illusions - you will go through couple of halls with posters each one featuring different interesting optic illusion. Very interesting.
5. Tilted house - the whole house is built not horizontally but tilted by 15 degrees. As a result you will think that it is a usual house but somehow you can’t go straight and will feel the gravity as strange sensation.

6. Even the toilet in this place is originally made - in Roman style. Before entering the actual toilet you arrive in this big hall where you see a very realistic painting of people using the toilet. Have to see it to believe it ![]()

7. There are also many posters with magnificent paintings by Escher. If you don’t know who he is - just Google his name.
8. At the entrance to the Puzzling World there is a cafe where you can sit, relax and … solve some puzzles! There are many different small but difficult puzzles laying on the tables in the cafe which you can take and solve while drinking your coffee or chatting with friends.


And the last but not least - The Leaning Clock Tower of Puzzling World! I don’t think that there is even one person who has been there and didn’t take a photo with him holding or doing something with this clock tower.

In conclusion - great experience, recommended for everyone!


