After you have overdosed on the awesome alpine scenery of the Southern Lakes, you can revitalise your senses with a visit to Puzzling World.
It is set amongst seven acres of rolling lawns and gardens at the entrance to the Wanaka township.
To begin with, the modern-style maze is two storeys high with 1.5 kilometres of confusing passages designed to take up to an hour to complete — with escape doors if time or impatience gets the better of you.
The Illusion Rooms are entered through the Hologram Hall with its collection of amazing 3D holograms. Move on to the hall of Following Faces where 68 giant famous eyes turn and follow you around the room.
From there venture into the Ames Forced Perspective Room with the illusion techniques used in The Lord of the Rings film to create tall people and little people. The shape of this room is totally distorted, although when viewed from outside through a window this room looks perfectly normal.
The Tilted House is leaning at an angle of fifteen degrees while the interior is normal. When you enter this room your brain will be convinced it is not sloping and will instinctively straighten up the displays at impossible angles so water flows uphill, and a cue ball on the pool table rolls against gravity.
Finally, there's the Puzzling Café with its tables of puzzling things and its giant kaleidoscope ceiling to make sure you never view the world the same again.