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Punakaiki Slideshow
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Travel Blogs from Punakaiki, New Zealand
Pancake Rocks...
This is a top pick! ... again, but I promptly got back into the swing of things and went on a 45 minute walk to the geographical centre of New Zealand. The monument that represented this was unimpressive, but the hike uphill provided great views of Nelson, and the weather was ...
Barry Town day Two
This is a top pick! I had signed up for a day of knife making. I wasn't sure what to expect, but the drivers on the bus had all said that it was one of the best activities on the tour and it sounded like something I would really enjoy. There were only five people including ...
Barry Town-The best night ever
This is a top pick! ... through the Butler gorge down to Barry Town, which is on the west coast. Before we reached Barry town we stopped at Punakaiki, so that we could marvel at the extremely strange, but unusually beautiful pancake rocks. As I walked around the well laid out ...
Mpegs Road Trip
This is a top pick! ... ; Upon leaving Christchurch we head in the direction of Arthur's Pass which has some stunning scenery as does pretty much all of New Zealand which we will later find out. We drive past beautiful hills, lakes and a few snow capped mountains, stopping of ...
Birthday pancakes
This is a top pick! ... had really set in but we walked along the path to look at the pancake rocks and blow holes that have made Punakaiki famous. The limestone stacks certainly weren't like anything I'd seen before and the ferocious sea provided an amazing backdrop. We ...
Stumpy the Kiwi
This is a top pick! In no real hurry this morning we checked out late and again stopped just up the road to see Franz Josef Glacier hardly being able to tell it apart from Fox other than the blue sky above. Continuing up the coast through small once gold mining towns we ...
Catching the Magic
This is a top pick! Day on the bus....booooo But we did stop at the pancake rocks for lunch, very weird natural rocks along the sea ...
Pancake Rocks
This is a top pick! ... in a small park south of Greymouth. From there it was a nice drive up the coast. We stopped for a bit in Punakaiki to check out the pancake rocks and blowholes. Unfortunately the conditions were not right for blowholes to occur, so no ...
Pancake Rocks - Paparoa National Park
This is a top pick! Not an entry but this part of the west coast deserves its own photo ...
Bush bog
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Hmmmm... pancakes!
This is a top pick! We succumbed to the deeleecious marketing at the Pancake Rocks. Feasting on a stack with a side of bacon, banana and maple syrup was a welcome change from P.B. & J sandwiches for ...
Buller Gorge, Reefton und Hanmer Springs
Samstag hat mich dann Alex abgeholt – mein couchsurfing-host aus Havelock. Hatten damals überlegt, einen kleinen Trip zu starten, da ich dieses Wochenende nach Kaikoura wollte und er da länger nicht mehr war. Also los, hit the road, Jack. Bei ...
Punakaiki – Das Leben ist schön!
Nach den Gletschern und Bergen sind wir innerhalb von 30 Minuten am Strand in Okarito gewesen! Das nenn ich mal einen schnellen Wechsel in der Vegetation! Eine wilde Tasman Sea hat uns begrüßt, ich bin gleich reingerannt und natürlich erstmal bis hoch ...
Starting the West Coast
Hello Everyone, Today we started the day by heading up the west coast to Punakaiki to see the Pancake Rocks. They are sandstone formations that look like layered pancakes. We then headed south from there towards Franz Joseph Glacier. ...
Pancake Rocks and Wekas
Mehr gibt es da nicht zu sagen - es war ein schoener Tag, Sonne, Pancake Rocks - Sandsteine die in Schichten abgelagert wurden und aussehen wie Pfannenkuchenberge... und ein frecher Vogel namens Weka ist mir begegnet - fluegellos und neugierig. Nothing ...
No rain?!
My next stop was at the Punakaiki Pancake Rocks on NZ's stormy & rainy west coast. Unfortunately though I missed out on the advertised "strongest rainfalls in NZ" (with a submarine like 7m rainfalls annually) and had to deal with plenty of sunshine. ...
The best holiday spot
... ll probably miss the most: Punakaiki. I'll miss the setting, the sunsets, the people, everything (ok, maybe I won't miss the sandflies). At the same time, this marks the beginning of my last week in New Zealand and my last day in the South Island. ...
Punakaipo
... get up for sunrise there and headed of bleary eyed first thing the following morning. Now, I have not had any pancakes yet in New Zealand but I am not convinced that they would resemble these rocks if I did - see photos again! Still it was a nice enough ...
Anyone for pancakes?
... south again along the coast through the Paperoa National park, we passed miles of rugged coastal beaches and rocky outcrops. In typical New Zealand fashion it began to pour with rain and by the time we arrived at our stop for the night Punakaiki Beach ...
Pancake Rocks and Blowholes
... ;15km back towards Hokitika. Stu really wanted to do the Knife Making, so we gave them a call and booked ourselves in for tomorrow. We then had to arrange for us to stay somewhere... so we booked into the Punakaiki Beach Motor Camp for two ...
Familienzeit in Neuseeland
Hey ihr, mal wieder ein kleiner Eintrag von mir, vom anderen Ende der Welt. Seit dem 23. bin ich jetzt mit meinem Vater und meiner Schwester unterwegs und wir haben schon einige 100 km auf den Strassen der Suedinsel zurueckgelegt (die Route koennt ihr ...
Pancake rocks!
stayed at greymouth last night then drove up north. saw the crazy rocks that look like pancakes! and random blow holes. cool. drove to west port and went swimming then drove up to nelson via a place next to abel ...
Pancake Rocks
... assumed I had learned my lesson about driving in the middle of the road instead of on my side. But I digress.] We stopped at Punakaiki to see the 'Pancake Rocks' and they were quite spectacular. The blow holes, however, were not blowing when we were there ...
Punakaiki
... our legs and take in the incredible scenery. We broke up the endless day of driving by stopping further down the road at Punakaiki to look at the Pancake Rocks and Blow Holes. The Pancake Rocks are large tall, yet compact, rock structures. They are very ...
Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud!
... ' although we couldn't make it look quite as easy as the gold digger demonstrating it. Apparently the world gold panning champion is from New Zealand - he had to pan a ridiculously small amount of gold (we think less than a gram) out of 20Kgs of gravel, ...
Pancakes, They're Not Just For Breakfast Anymore!
... The road to Punakaiki is miles of gorgeous coastline and forrests, and there is no real signage for anything. I arrived in Punakaiki without even knowing it, and almost drove right through the whole area. I was tired and had passed some signs ...
Carry on Camping
... escapades will be aware that we are woefully unprepared as far as cooking equipment is concerned and we haven't broken that habit yet in New Zealand. The eggs remained in the basket and we headed off before 9am. When we came to NZ two and a half years ...