旅遊指南 Lonely Planet 呼籲遊客，避免破壞紐西蘭 IG 打卡位「瓦納卡樹」-攝影札記 Photoblog

位於紐西蘭瓦納卡湖（Lake Wanaka）的一棵樹因為周圍景色優美，成為了打卡熱點，不少遊客趁水退時走到樹邊、甚至爬到樹上拍照。在去年聖誕節前，「瓦納卡樹」更因此斷枝。

瓦納卡樹生長在湖中，根部長期浸水，生長速度已經減緩，如果再常被攀爬，就會很容易受到破壞。根據旅遊指南《Lonely Planet》報道，當地旅遊局為了保護瓦納卡樹，正計劃在該處設立中英文警示標誌，提醒遊客不要攀爬，但當局會盡量避免安裝圍欄，以免影響樹木生長及自然景觀。

在 Instagram 上搜尋「#ThatWanakaTree」標籤，就可以找到一些遊客坐在樹上的照片：

Climbing this tree will soon be banned! Take care and protect it for future photographers. No harm was done to this tree to make this shot. ##ThatWanakaTree #samyanglensglobal #milkyway #stars #epic #selfie #wanaka #lakewanaka #nzmustdo #protectthetree

A post shared by Mikey Mack (@mack_photography_nz) on Jan 18, 2018 at 3:46am PST

#thatwanakatree reminded Achmer of his kampung halaman

A post shared by Tengku Namira (@namiramalik) on Jan 16, 2018 at 9:45pm PST

If you go to Wanaka but don’t visit that Wanaka tree then did you even go to Wanaka? Thanks to @catinahat89 for making sure we get some non-selfie photos of us this trip ?

A post shared by JESS FAITHFULL (@jessicafaithfull) on Jan 21, 2018 at 1:52am PST

#thatwanakatree

A post shared by Mireya (@mireya_628) on Jan 22, 2018 at 5:19pm PST

• NEW ZEALAND DAY 4 • Today we said goodbye to Queenstown ? But towards Wanaka we go! We stopped by Arrowtown where we learnt about the experience of the Chinese in the gold rush and explored the town. Wish it had retained more of the history but it was a cute stopoff place. After lunch we drove to the top of Coronet Peak (a skifield) before arriving at Wanaka. To continue the theme of poor luck on this trip, it was low tide. BUT it just meant that we could climb #thatwanakatree . . . I’m still amazed at how this one tree is so famous ?

A post shared by Peggy Y (@ifpegscouldfly) on Jan 20, 2018 at 4:01am PST

2016 年香港公共圖書館成人中文非小說類書籍的首 10 位入面，有 9 本都是旅遊書，可見旅遊指南舉足輕重的地位。不過，有不少人都喜歡在出發旅行前參考旅遊指南介紹的同時，也有愈來愈多網民認為旅遊指南不應再鼓吹郊外景點，以免人潮破壞自然景觀。Lonely Planet 呼籲遊客保育景點當然是好事，但由他們開口，對部份人來說可能有點諷刺。Lonely Planet 網站雖然沒有教人爬到樹上，不過也有標榜該處是 IG 打卡位：