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12,000 feet high and rising!
... the plane got higher and higher, the views became more and more spectacular. Eugene pointed out the main features, such as Mount Tasman, Mount Aspiring, Lake Hawea and of course, Lake Wanaka. It certainly was beautiful, yet it was also surreal to think ...
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Fox Glacier and Franz Josef
... our nights accomodation. Bugger. We headed off to the Frans Josef glacier first thing passing through the Haaste pass, going through Mount Aspiring national park. We made it Fox Glacier firstly, walked as far as we could and we were stopped because ...
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Wanaka
... , we said goodbye to the Tasman Sea and headed inland today, we worked our way through the mountainous Haast pass and through the mount Aspiring National Park, we arrived at Wanaka at about 12.30pm and Esther was waiting outside the hostel for me, it was ...
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Glaciers, mini-golf and a lot of cold air!
... the lurch in my stomach that I'd been expecting, and soon we stabilised and I could take in the spectacular view. Mount Aspiring was protruding dagger like through the cloud, and far to the north Mount Cook was clearly visable. Beneath me ...
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Mountains and Glaciers
... ….that would have to be another thing we would do when we come back!! We drove on, further south, past more beautiful coastlines and into Mount Aspiring National Park. It was getting late so we decided to park up somewhere…it just so happened ...
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Routeburn Track to Queenstown - Day 267
The tramp is officially over with 107km covered in Mount Aspiring and Fiordland national parks. A good effort I reckon! It certainly wasn't easy but very enjoyable and well worth the effort. Defiantly the best way to appreciate New Zealand's majestic ...
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Glaciers and Hot Pools
... away before starting our new lives as "cleaning bitches" and "checkout chicks" First we did a tramp at the nearby Mount Aspiring National Park. Wanaka's own alpine playground - a haven for serious mountaineers and amateur nutters like us. We did a ...
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Adventure Sports Here We Come!
... (funny that!), and is small and personal with loads of space, a beautiful town centre and the mountains (yes more of them) of Mount Aspiring National Park looming in the distance at the far end of the lake. We stayed for 2 days - the first not ...
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Don't Du Hasst
... Wanaka Saar and I first headed in the opposite direction to where we would later be heading driving for around an hour towards the Mount Aspiring National Park to do a walk up the Rob Roy valley. The drive was not so straight forward on losing ...
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Rees-Dart & Routeburn Tramp - Day 259-266
... first day on the Rees-Dart track. At 8am we caught a bus which drops trampers off at the various trailheads in and around Mount Aspiring National Park . The first bus we took followed the most scenic route I've been on so far in New Zealand. We ...
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