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Arthurs Pass Slideshow
Top Hotels in Arthurs Pass
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Arthur's Pass Alpine Motel Arthurs Pass
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Bealey Hotel Arthurs Pass
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Wilderness Lodge Arthurs Pass
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Arthurs Pass
Travel Blogs from Arthurs Pass, New Zealand
Crossing the Alps
This is a top pick! ... . These were about the size of cats, with luxuriously furry coats, and very sharp claws. They are public enemy number one in New Zealand because of their tendency to eat the eggs of native birds, bringing many like the kiwi to the edge of extinction. ...
Bit of a drive
This is a top pick! One of few driving days in NZ, we spent the day crossing the south island from Franz Josef to Kaikoura, via the stunning Arthurs Pass (which we have no pictures of!). It was a pretty uneventful journey, except for the scenery, although we did encounter a ...
Arthurs Pass
This is a top pick! New Zealand has never stop wowing us and Arthurs Pass was something special. The rain stopped and it was a beautifully sunny day as we drove through the mountain range stopping regularly to take photos. I'm not going to try and describe it - the photos ...
Fox & Franz Joseph Glaciers to Otira - Day 271
This is a top pick! ... from the settlement and surrounding walking tracks. Will hopefully see for myself in the morning if the weather continues to be fine and clear. I'm not expecting the weather to hold though, remember I'm in soggy New Zealand, could snow tomorrow, who ...
Rock and Food Formations
This is a top pick! ... spectacular vistas. The ascent to Arthur's Pass is really a series of climbs, first into the unattractive scrubland of Porter's Pass with its primitive ski areas, then along the subalpine plateaus with their lovely renegade lupine meadows. At the top ...
West coast and Arthurs Pass to East Coast
This is a top pick! ... Punchbowl falls but only Dave managed it as it was a very steep walk uphill and my legs still hadnt recovered from the heli-hike. Arthurs Pass is well worth doing if you are heading this way at all - there is also the Trans-Alpine train that goes the ...
Arthur’s Pass hike, near Temple basin ski ar
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Feb 28, Arthur's Pass hike, near Temple basin ski area « You place your skis in the box that comes up via the cable and you walk up … about 150 people can sleep here on a busy day… and you can ski everywhere: in ...
Arthur's Pass
Arthurs Pass
After we left Greymouth we drove east along Arthurs Pass where we stood for one night. Because it was raining a lot we didnt do any long tracks cauz its not recommended to do so. So I did a couple of short ones by myself. Then we kept on driving to ...
In Mountain country
Second day in Arthur's Pass. Went up Avalanche Peak (1100 metres vertically) and then walked a fair bit along the Crow Hut track (which meant I climbed even more) to get better views of Mt. Rollerston (or something like that). The walk was very steep in ...
Arthurs Pass Drive
Drove from Franz Josef to Ross for food, then to Hokitika and over the highway throu Arthurs Pass back to Christchurch where i decided to spent the night once ...
Hamner Springs, Pancake rocks, Franz Joseph
Another day of driving lay ahead. The guy at the Motel who we had nicknamed Dickie Rock had told us about a place on the West coast just north of Greymouth where they had these amazing coastal cliffs that were shaped like layers of pancakes and had blow ...
Eingeschneit!
... "Oh my God!"-Schreien von irgendwelchen Leuten geweckt. Grund war eine erhebliche Schneedecke, die sich ueber Nacht ueber Arthur's Pass Village gelegt hatte. Und das hiess: abgeschnitten von der Aussenwelt - zumindestens fuer ein paar Stunden, da die ...
Into the Mountains
... . The coastal lands quickly change into a mountainous region looking something between the Rockies and the Appalachians. We pull into Arthur's pass around 10:30am and I jump off into the smallest village I've ever stayed in. Finding accommodations was not ...
Hamner Springs
Betsy goes backwards now!! Yay, this is good news indeed, plus it only cost us a measly $20, roughly 7 UK pounds, because all the mechanics had to do was adjust the gears a bit. And... ahem... they showed us that there was in fact a manual choke (a ...
Grassmere Lodge a.k.a my favorite place so far
... (like pineapple pizza) from the chef. We went on a great hike the other day where at the end we wanted to leave a part of us in New Zealand forever, so we all cut off a bit of hair and dug it into the ground. Then we did a "Haka" dance which is a ...
Up Avalanche Peak
... , it seems we are all heading north so we decide to team up and hike the 51km Abel Tasman Coastal track. It's listed as one of New Zealand's great tracks, so it should prove to be fun. I'm glad this came up as my previous plan was to just wander up a town ...
The Trippy Coast and the Magic Mountains
... do that than rent one here. Crazy. I stopped to fuel at Greymouth, and then headed up SH7 towards Lewis Pass, at Stillwater I took the Arnold Valley Road to Lake Brunner. This again was a beautiful drive, with the mountains ahead, and ...
The most beautiful single day hike on the south is
... the woods of moss covered trees with fairly dense scrub on the forest floor. The path itself was pure Maine or New Hampshire AT.....immediately we were clambering up rocks and doing big step ups. Nothing like the groomed and gravelled path of ...
Arthurs Pass
... to drive to Arthurs Pass and stay the night out there. So we made an abrupt left just after Rakaia and headed west towards Arthurs Pass. Since it was getting to be around lunch time and we were running out of options to pull over as we headed up ...
Meet My New Sweetheart
... road. Bt the time I'd checked in to my diggs for the night - Mountain House - he was gone. I fell in love with Arthurs Pass village immediately. It's a tiny community along probably no more than 1km of the pass road, nestled between 2 huge collections of ...
Rain, Rain, Rain
It was beautiful when we left Christchurch and as we drove up the mountain into Arthur's Pass, it started to rain and it continued for the entire time while we were up there. At the DOC office, we inquired about the weather at the rest of the ...
Let's play a little catch up
... is kind of like the trails as well. The concept of the switchback is not in the Kiwi vocabulary. Where the people of New Zealand may lack in infrastructure though, I have to say, they make up for in shear determination. I fancy that, for sure. ...
Arthur's Pass
... bus back from Kaikoura to Christchurch and went straight to rent a car and drive up to Arthur's Pass, the highest mountain pass in New Zealand. Driving on the left side of the road was an experience in its own. I really had no problems picking which lane ...
International Mountain Climbers
Into the heart of the mountains. Doris Calci and I took a nice day-hike up a mountain. Avalanche ...
Our first tramp
We arrived in Arthur's pass and found it both cold and windy; but the train ride to get here was gorgeous with snowcapped mountains in the distance. As we approached them we passed through one alpine valley after another and marvelled at the pale ...
Arthurs Pass
So we left our train hostel after breakfast and headed for Arthurs pass. A major highway through the mountains to the west coast. These mountains are very high and very steep. We knew it would be a long journey but didnt think it would take us all day - ...
Hiking in Arthurs Pass
737m above sea level, Arthurs Pass is a small village in the South Alps inbetween Christchurch and Greymouth. After a 3hour scenic coach ride, I arrived in the national park keen to do some hiking. On my first night I stayed at ...