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WINE, ART, WILDRENESS & WOW NELSON

Nowhere in the world will you find, within a short distance, three spectacular national parks, glistening golden beaches and turquoise crystal clear waters, alongside alpine meadows and snowy mountain ranges hanging over the Antarctic Circle but with cool weather.  MEENAKSHI RAO  takes you through this amazing geography Wine, art and wilderness one would think makes for strange bedfellows. But everything in Nelson is strange — it’s greens give a new definition to the colour of foliage, its oceans are just so stunningly aquamarine that you feel they are artificial, their wineries are so quaint that they look like homes you were deprived of in your childhood and its art is so outrageous, or should one say imaginative, that the blast of colours and the innovation tend to take your breath away — not just on canvas, also on glass. Combining all these three tenets of tourism is what Nelson sells as a package all its own, very becoming, very odd and yet very engaging. It does come with