Aka-View Bed & Breakfast Akaroa
5 Langlois Lane Akaroa, Christchurch-Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand
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A long awaited road trip
Sunday 1st April was the dawning of a long awaited day out away from Christchurch. And having caught up with Manny all weekend we made a plan to hire a car for the day and bring it to Akaroa and back. Many who spoke with me about Akaroa tell me it is a beautiful drive, and I was about to find out for myself…
I needed to collect the car from the Go Rental hire at 9am, it may sound like an early start for a Sunday considering that I had to catch a ten minute bus ...
BPT Tag1: 20km, 3 Vegetationen, 3 Hütten, Wildlife
... wurde ein Pfad der durch verschiedenfarbige Sträucher verlief. Es waren die letzten Meter.
16:45 Uhr erreichten Wim und ich das Etappenziel in der Stony Bay. Mehr als 20km (durch die Zusatztracks) lagen hinter uns. Erschöpf zog ich die Schuhe aus und erkundete das Farm Hostel.
Ein Wort reicht, um es zu beschreiben: Rustikal! Die Dusche ist an einem Baum angebaut. So kann man dem Baum beim Wachsen zugucken. Echt einzigartig. ...
Out to Find an Adventure
... gorge. Once we'd gotten to the other side, there was a point where we could jump off a rock 20 ft above the river into the water. Which we all did, and it was a lot of fun! As we floated down towards the end of our rafting trip, we were incensed that we had practiced how to get in and out of the raft, how to flip it back over, and never got use these new learned skills. So we proceeded to purposely flip our raft (harder than you'd think), and float down part ...
Akaroa is the bowl of a former volcano
... cries if you listen.
The sailing trip I took aboard the Fox II was very informative, relaxing, beautiful music played as we watched the awesome views. Pllayful dolphins, a few penguins, a colony of fur seals and many birds greeted our passing vessel. It was a good day and I met some people again that I have met earlier in my travels. I love when that happens. ...
A New Year, A New Place
... down towards Akaroa but unfortunately the weather didn't keep it's promise.
Akaroa is a very small town that was half settled by the French and English, though the French were first to discover it, they didn't lay claim and instead decided to head back and bring supplies. They returned only to see the United Kingdom flag had been hoisted a few days earlier. To think that New Zealand could have been a French colony seems weird. Though French flags are often seen ...


