Central Otago, New Zealand Travel Blogs

Exploring farm stays and laboring in fruit packing

A travel blog entry by grizzly

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... was founded. And so, my travels came to a halt as I decided to earn some money to refill my slowly depleting travel budget. Central Otago is the fruit bowl of NZ with about 90% of the fruit coming from this area. Lots of the fruit is exported all ...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

A travel blog entry by mudpuppy3d

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... will become apparent in a moment. The one major event of note was mid-semester break; Lisa and I did something called the Central Otago Rail Trail. It's an old railway line through the valleys of Otago which has been converted to a trail which we biked. ...

Yes sir, yes sir,three bags full...well,one anyway

A travel blog entry by donjohn

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... an hilarious dry-witted Scotsman, whose brogue I am just beginning to understand,invited us out with his wife,Nyrie, for a trip into Central Otago. This area is like a plain or moor with tracts of tussocks(a clumped grass) and wide open spaces. It is ...

Time moves and so do my values

A travel blog entry by daniellej

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... - from half a metre to three metres tall --> think Big Bird!) to extinction by burning the forests down. So Central otago is really scrubby because without the forests it is slipping toward desertification. so there it's a really unique landscape. We ...

Wwoof wwoof

A travel blog entry by spanner

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If you've never heard of Wwoofing before, it stands for something like willing workers on organic farms. You get a directory of farms that need help, call around until you find a good match then arrange when to go. They get free help, you get free board ...

2006: A Year Without Spring

A travel blog entry by hick116

... (instead of appearing on them) and I'm pulling out sweaters to wear... and I can see my breath in my bedroom (New Zealand lacks central heating and insulation) reality has it. 2006 goes something like this: Winter (in the states), Summer (NZ), Fall ...

Central Otago

A travel blog entry by mithrandir

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... at the top, the frivolous pursuit of having the best time possible, how can you not love it. Central Otago's beauty was breathtaking and the day after the helicopter ride a front came through and the morning after the mountains across ...

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