Paradise New Zealand

A few years ago we I looked at an online map of the South Island New Zealand and saw a place marked Paradise, researching further I found a picture of a road sign on the road to Paradise which said 'Paradise no exit'. Well that caught my imagination and we decided we would have to see such a place. 

Here in pictures I present Paradise, too get there you go to Glenorchy at the othere end of the lake from Queenstown on the South Island.

You travel on a gravel road that crosses the River Jordan, merely a stream, then through a stand of trees called the gates of heaven and soon turn left up to the property called Paradise and on that property there is a large padlock called Eden.













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