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Travel Blogs from Franz Joseph Glacier, New Zealand
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Fantastic day on the glacier!
This is a top pick! ... again as it was such a nice day the view of the mountains would be better - and it was. Next we did a walk to the Franz Joseph terminal face which was good but not as close as at Fox. Finally we stopped walking and then drove further up the coast to ...
Hodge on the rocks
This is a top pick! And relax......... Finally caught up with my blog and all the pictures I have taken of this magnificent country. Today I climb a glacier, which was cool enough, but the most impressive thing is the rainforest surrounding it and the Southern Alps in the ...
Franz Joseph Glacier
This is a top pick! ... So after waking up in the middle of nowhere (I took a couple pics of nowhere, to show you guys) we decided to head towards Franz Joseph Glacier. It didn't take us long since we had made most of the trek last night and we arrived in a tiny town named after ...
Franz Joseph
Franz Joseph is lovely.. It's quite a small town, but the back drop is lovely. We had a relaxed evening ready for the hike the following day. The Glacier hike was cool. They get you all clothed in the special gear and you head off to the Glacier. When ...
having a ball !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... i had 3 bottles of wine, fell from the top bunk in the night and didn't waken!!! then caught the bus to franz joseph were i am going on a glacier mountain walk tomorow and then a sky dive the next mourning. oh yeah thats a sky dive, will be shitting my ...
Franz Joseph Glacier
... half an hour. More than im used to!!! but good news is: I STILL HAVENT BEEN SICK! hahaha Then we left Greymouth and drove down to Franz Joseph. So we got here around 1pm. Then at about 3pm I went on a hike of the glacier. It was scary! We got spikes ...
Franz Joseph Township
... just a stopover really for me to chill and break up a long car journey. I arrived in Franz Joseph (the village of the Franz Joseph Glacier) on Tuesday around 4 pm, after setting off from Lake Wanaka at 1030! Its only around 250k, but up and down ...
Glow worminess
... - a tense drive as we were all emotionally kind of on edge. We arrived at Franz Joseph - hometown of the Famous Franz Joseph Glacier, and stayed at 'Glow Worm Cottages', an awesome backpackers', where we got our own four-bed ensuite classy room. We ...
Glacier Walking and Lake Matheson
... on the tourist trail as a popular glacier walk destination. The other famous glacier in the region is the more popular Franz Joseph glacier, further up the coast. It was pissing rain that evening and didn't stop the next day, putting our glacier walk ...
Glacier country
... glacier as recently as two hundred years ago, so there are very steep sides, funky little waterfalls and lots of glacial debris. The glacier grows and shrinks pretty rapidly, sometimes by as much as a metre a day. At the moment it's receding, but it's ...
Franz Joseph
Here we are in Franz Joseph to climb the glacier and the rain is coming at us sideways and like nails because of the gusts of bitter wind. The glacier, named after an Austrian Emperor of yesteryear, looks fairly dirty at the bottom but as we precariously ...
Fox Glacier to Franz Joseph Glacier
... ride today but nonetheless challenging. Three large hills in about 18km. The "up" made me hurt a lot, especially after yesterday's glacier walk, but the "downs" were great. Arrived at Glow Worm Cottages backpackers, they had a free hot spa pool which ...
What a difference a day makes
... the top of Mount Cook and Tasman were covered in cloud so no picture opportunity!! We drove back to Franz Joseph for yet another climb to view the glacier on a sunny day, rather than like yesterday!!! We are staying here the night before heading ...
Icecold
Hallo liebe Schneefreunde, jetzt kommt ein Kapitel, was selbst mich ueberrascht hat. Wie faszinierend kann Eis sein!! Haette nicht gedacht, dass es so schoen ist. Es regnet Bindfaeden, wir sehen vor lauter Regen kaum moch was- aber das ist normal ...
Trouble comes in threes
... mood. The others pretty much went to sleep so I spent most of the journey taking to Ali. We arrived at Franz Joseph glacier and checked into our accomodation, Rainforest Retreat. Had some dinner, used the internet and booked onto our Glacier hike for ...
Flights and Glaciers
... there was young me! We got into the air and the views were fantastic, we started off over the river that runs from the Franz Joseph Glacier and then headed down the coast to where it met the Tasman Sea. The first glacier we came to was the Fox Glacier ...
Hiking on the Glacier
... in our hire car. After a quick stop at a supermarket and ATM to stock up on food and cash we were motoring down route 6 towards Franz Joseph. The drive took an easy 2.5 hours with a stop at Hokitika to look at the Jade shops. The YHA at Franz Joseph ...
Bloody weather
helicopter cancelled due to cloud, karmic retribution for being so smug about weather in last entry no ...
Doing the South Island
... fear of upsetting the silence. The next day we were out of there and headed off to the Glaciers, Fox Glacier and Franz Joseph Glacier. The glaciers are several kilometers long and stretch from way up into the mountains right down to the local ...
Walking on Ice
... hunk of ice. I was chatting to our guide and he was saying that they´ve got to constantly plot and carve new paths since the glacier is moving so fast and changing so often. We actually passed a couple of seemingly random guys picking away at the ice. ...
Franz Joseph Glacier
... town exists for the sole purpose of acting as a launching pad for expeditions to look at and climb around on the Franz Joseph Glacier. This was another Rasta-wannabe Mecca like Cusco, with half the population looking very much like they should be ...
Our war correspondant reports on Phil's birthday
"Suicide is painless it brings on many changes and you can take or leave it if you please" Private Cawthorne reporting from the Franz Joseph Delta - yes I feel like I'm in an episode of Mash, hence the theme tune above which keeps running through my ...
Agi & Rudi hiking on a glacier!
Just like Fox glacier, Franz Joseph is located in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. They are only 20 km apart from each other. When we arrive in the town we head straight to the only company that does guided tours on the glacier. A full day tour costs the ...
Down the West Coast
Massum, Nicole and I caught the 7.15am bus from Nelson to Franz Jospeh to experience the glaciers of the Southern Alps. The West Coast region is a rugged, salt-sprayed stretch of wild rocky beaches and bush-clad hills sweeping up to towering icy peaks. ...
Slip slidin' away
... what they call 'Mayonaise' we know to be 'Salad Cream' - no excuse for it really! Thursday 15th July - Greymouth - Franz Joseph Glacier (180Ks) Hit the road with overnight rain still lingering and despite our hopes that it might clear it ended up just ...
Glacier Walk
I just wanted to put up another funny quote, more like a conversation had between these two girls, Claire and Nic, who you can see in the front of the pack of the picture titled Claire and Nic. Anyway the conversation went something like this: Nic: ...
To the Glaciers
... to the Snow capped mountains. Travelled south down the coastal road venturing through Hokitika,to Franz Josef. The Drive was very scenic. Franz Joseph the fantastic river of ice was formed during the last ice age. You can view the glaciers by guided ...
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