Routeburn Track Te Anau

Dernier jour dans la ville du sport aventure, et je fini par un hiking d’une journée dans le Routeburn Track, à 80 km de Queenstown. Je ne suis pas fan du treking dans les bois mais je savais que c’était le seul moyen d’approcher de près la forêt des Alpes du sud. 6h de marche donc dans les sentiers battus du Mont Aspiring, pour …

Barely slept last night – went to bed way too late on a way too full stomach and had to be up at 5.30 to get breakfast (which thankfully starts at 6am here) and then walk around to the mysterious Frankton Bus Shelter. The route was via the lake front which took about a mile off the trip but exposed me to a mass of biting insects. The sand …

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uit Stefaan's pen gerold (dutch part written by Stefaan):
Iets vroeger opgestaan dan anders (0430 uur). Langs het Wakatipu meer noordelijk gereden naar Glenorchy, laatste dorpje vooraleer we de vallei van de Routeburn River inrijden. Dan verder via een gravel road naar de start van de Routeburn track: …

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So we arrived at Alina's house on Monday, having left Sally and Hugo's about midday and taken a leisurely drive down past Lake Wakatipu. Alina's a really nice lady originally from Poland, who came out here as a refugee 30 years ago. …

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Na ons afscheid van Rima en Dennis hadden we heel wat langeafstandsritten op het programma staan. Hoewel Geert geveld was door een 'witte angina', besloten we toch met ons mini-autootje aan het kilometervreten richting Zuiden te beginnen. Aan de andere kant van de evenaar betekent dit: richting slechter weer, in tegenstelling tot de exotische …

...And we're back! Rest assured, we are still alive and livin' it up in New Zealand. We actually haven't traveled anywhere too remote during the past few weeks. In fact, we decided to spend some quality alone time with our new home, Queenstown. Moving here in September we felt like tourists for the first month or so as we got acquainted with the …

New Zealand's Great Walks: these are NZ's premiere hiking tracks with some of the best scenery in the country. Our top choice, since we have limited time here, was the world-renowned Routeburn track which crosses over the southern alps linking Mt. Aspiring National Park to Fiordland National Park. We initially coordinated dates with our friends …

7:50 de bus vanuit Queenstown naar de Routeburn Shelter. Daar begint ons Routeburn avontuur. Samen met een Gids een drie jeugdige Australiërs gaan we de eerste dag naar de Routeburn Falls hut, waar wij blijven slapen , waar de gids met de Australiërs weer terug gaan. Onderweg krijgen we vanalles te horen over de flora en fauna van het gebied. Voor …

Drove up to the Divide (which is the start of the Routeburn Track) and did the 3 hour return Key Summit walk. A steep slog up but well worth it with rewarding panoramic views of all the snow capped peaks in the area. The nature walk at the top was ...

... . We headed out of Milford undecided as to whether or not to tackle Key Summit, a hike covering the start of the Routeburn track, one of New Zealand’s Great Walks, but quite frankly when it came to it we couldn’t be bothered.  It had ...

... at 7:45am for our next adventure. We had decided to do two different kayaking trips (with Fiordland Wilderness Experience) right after the Routeburn Track (it sounded like a good idea at the time - or at least it sounded good to me). We kayaked Milford ...

... de dauphins vient nous saluer!! Je n'ai jamais vu de dauphins sauvages d'aussi pres.... ils sont adorables!!! Nous redescendons ensuite sur Te Anau ou j'ai decide de descendre du bus et de rester quelques jours pour aller faire mon treck. Je suis ...

... with the company of a large cheeky Kea bird.  When the rain cleared we walked up the first part of the famous Routeburn Track to Key Summit where there was a nature trail around the summit which was very interesting.  After completing the walk ...

... 42.6' From the DOC brochure, the best walk was to Key Summit. Thus involved driving half way back to Milford and then taking the Routeburn Track for a couple of miles. Then up to a plateau at the end of one of the lower ridges. Key Summit is so named ...

... ; We did manage to get to Milford Sound though - different for both of us from the first time we visited it.  And we did a part of the Routeburn track, up to the Key Summit, which gives a great view of the mountains, lakes and rivers on all ...

... in the Fiordlands National Park, where I kayaked through Milford Sound, sailed through Doubtful Sound, and tramped on the Kepler Track, one of New Zealand's Great Walks. It has been a fine, fine, FINE couple of days. Even the rain only added to the ...

... my next destination, Queenstown, by cutting across the mountains instead of taking a bus around them for 200 km. I mean I walked the Routeburn track. And chose the only three rainy days in a two-week spell of sunshine. As almost always, the weather gods ...

... , doing the Kepler Track and, like us, Routeburn Track. Early next morning we packed our backpacks, drove to thwe Divide and began tramping. Routeburn Track is also one of the most famous tracks in NZ like Abel Tasman but this one is a bit harder. It is ...