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Travel Blogs from Christchurch, Queenstown, New Zealand
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Mooontains mooontains mooontains and other things!
This is a top pick! ... . Sorry, no pictures at the moment until we get my mum to email them to us. The next day we all got on our flight to Christchurch in the south island and from there we set off in our campervans down south. Rich, Gina (Rich's nutty mum, we love her!) and ...
Bungles voyage in the Land of the Long White Cloud
This is a top pick! ... over wild sea lions and a wee penguin. Then down to the Catlins, the wild and battered South Coast of New Zealand. Great cliff faces and crashing seas, lovely beaches and fortified fossil forests. Rare Hector dolphins performing acrobatics and surfing ...
Leaving NZ
... The Gay Lord pub on the Magic Bus, and walking up Baldwin Street (the steepest residential street in the world) i arrived in Christchurch to be greeted my a pretty good, but still being renovated hostel (think Fulham - quite good, but still need some ...
Activities and scenery through the South Island
So to sum up New Zealand, it´s wet but beautiful! The surroundings are stunning with huge forests, lakes, mountains, glaciers and valleys, and thanks to the whole "adventure sports" scene many of which you can climb, swim, trek or jump off. I arrived ...
Magic in the South Island
... egging each other on to go and jump A.J Hacketts original bungy - didnt happen. We did eventually leave Queenstown and headed back to Christchurch. While there we made a special effort to hunt down some Kiwi's, the feathered kind. Strangely enough ...
Wanaka/Queenstown/Mount Cook
... we woke up the mountain was completely covered over with cloud. As it turned out we were quite lucky to see the mountain when we did as it normally covers itself over with cloud. WE decided to cut our losses and head back to the family in ...
South Island in a Week
... terrain. She's a bit slow on the up hills, and actually pretty slow on the downhills as well but she made it to Queenstown without any real worries. We met up with a couple mates from our fruit picking lives and hit the town with disastrous effects. ...
Last days in New Zealand
... at me and slamming the door closed. Some people! Traumatised (!) Gez and I wandered into town for second to last night in New Zealand together. We wound up in a lovely wine tasting shop, whereby you by a card with credit already on it, or ...
Lake Tekapo - Christchurch
... the biggest we ever ha :) ). Lake Tekapo -> Christchurch 9.12. It's friday and it's our last day travelling in New Zealand - Gabi leaving for home today and me and Zuz spending last night in Christchurch. We staying in Kiwi Base hostel just 10 ...
Lake Tekapo - Christchurch CZ
... , měly jsme dvojité porce které se ani nedaly sníst , ale nase bříska byla spokojená. Lake Tekapo-> Christchurch 9.12 Poslední půlden s Gábi v autobuse-myslím ze jsme stihly probrat snad úplně vsechno :) - ale kde ...
Southland NZ
After leaving the very south of the South island behind, we began to enter the very interesting area that NZ is famed for, namely the Southern Alps . Our first experience with the Southern Alps was the amazing Fiordland National Park, a truly stunning ...
New Zealand
... shute opens...hopefully" Anyway, after that we were in a mini-bus heading toward the private airfield, like nearly every journey in New Zealand it was beautiful, and again...very picturesque!! When we got there was saw the plane, it was TINY!!! So ...
New Zealand
Hi, Bit of a backtrack as now loading some photos as well. Flight over as mentioned before was fab. Arrived Christchurch and picked up BB as mentioned. Drove to a ski area which was very quiet but extremely scenic. What a ...
New zealand
... are just 2 amazing facts dan has told us,theres so many more.on the way we saw some amazing scenary,the landscape of new zealand is amazing,we saw 2 massive fresh water lakes surrounded by loads of mountains with the tips of the mountains having a bit ...
Und weiter geht das Reisen
... rückwärts in einem Stuhl runtergesprungen. Einfach Wahnsinn!!! Joa und nach den 2 Tagen ging es wieder 9 Stunden zurück nach Christchurch und jetzt bin ich gerade auf der Fähre von Picton nach Wellington. Heute war totaler Stress weil mein Bus schon ...
New Zealand
... Anyway sorry its been a while since I updated, thursday today, should be a good last weekend in New Zealand. Best place so far is Queenstown, Wellington total dissapointment and Christchurch average. South island is nicer looing than the north but equally ...
The last of the great bus trips
Took a tour bus, they were late, to Christchurch. We went via Mt Cook, great view, couldn't imagine hiking up ...
Queenstown - extreme sports town!
... day (and didn't get too bored... not!)Starting to feel very burnt out from the whole Queenstown thing! 05/08/05 Queenstown to Christchurch......... Said good-byes to everyone, bye to Clare, and also sad to see Matt go cause we've been travelling ...
Me Mum and a campervan
... some lovely walks up steep hills and old forests. However, the sandfiles are the reason I will not be staying too long in New Zealand. They are vicious, unrelenting and I am covered! Next on to Manapouri, the gateway to Doubtful Sound. I think it ...
Moving on
Having exhausted the limited supply of jobs in Christchurch I moved onto Rangiora where I got work on a deer farm for a few weeks. I later headed to Te Anau to meet my boyfriend of the time and moved in with him on Princhester Farm, a Landcorp property ...
Stranded
... dolphins which was incredible, they were leaping around and playing in in front of the boat. Then a very dull bus ride to Christchurch airport and then a very long night sleeping on the floor of the arrivals lounge, is was bright and very chilly but it ...
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