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=**Twizel New Zealand Canterbury** =

**Me and my family go up to Twizel most holidays we have been going to Twizel for about 3 or 4 years. In Twizel we have a holiday house in godley street. When we are in Twizel we go boating with friends, go on walkes mt cook village, go to Tekapo, go on bike rides & go down to the river. Twizel History! Twizel was Built in 1968 to accommodate builders servicing the upper Waitaki Hydroelectricity scheme & was planed to be removed after the project was completed But in 1983 Twizel residents fought to save the small town! Twizel has now been rearranged with a school, Small town area, pedestrian crossing, shops & looped roads. Twizel is now used for many other things now like the rowing (maadi cup)is heald at lake Ruataniwha. Twizel attracts winter tourists that ski or snowboard at ohau ski resort or round hill ski area.It is also a great tourist attraction because mt cook village is only about a half hour drive from Twizel. Twizle has a populatin of 1,017, but in the summer holidays the population triples.** Twizle on the newzealand map! = Twizel = Mt cook media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Twizel,+New+Zealand&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.214763,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Twizel,+Canterbury,+New+Zealand&ll=-44.25864,170.099129&spn=0.058624,0.154324&z=13&output=embed" width="425" height="350" =**Twizle map! **=
 * Twizel is located in Canterbury not far from mt cook village & mt cook. **



=Twizel poem =

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