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Twizel Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Twizel, New Zealand
Stunning views of Aoraki
This is a top pick! ... . I had the luxury of 3 days surrounded by such awesome scenery, and I was itching to do some walking while you could see New Zealand's highest mountain in all its glory. We arrived at the YHA at midday and it seemed like a lovely place, with spacious ...
A challenging walk to Meuller Hut
This is a top pick! ... and did just that. Again, I sat on a huge rock on my own, in awe of the surrounding peaks. There are 30 mountains in New Zealand that are over 3000m high, and Mount Cook National Park is home to nearly all of them - a great indication of the magnitude I ...
Rain, Rain go away, clear up after bonfire day
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; We detoured off the main highway at Aviemore Dam which gave us a nice view of the Aviemore Lake the largest manmade lake in New Zealand. The lake was beautifully blue it almost looked fake. We then stopped off at a salmon farm where we got the ...
Free Lakefront Lodging
This is a top pick! Excited to move on, we headed southwest out of Christchurch in our newly rented RV. Kiwis drive on the left side of the road. So it's good that we practiced our left hand driving already in South Africa. At 6.6m the RV doesn't quite ...
Onward to New Zealand - first stop, Mount Cook
This is a top pick! ... without Jethro was too much to bear so without further ado we headed straight over to Cairns airport to try and get a stand-by flight to New Zealand. We made up some cock and bull story about an old aunt in NZ being very ill but it was all to no ...
An Hour Old
This is a top pick! ... be careful we were covered in sunblock. After a good supping of refreshments we headed further inland. Our destination today was Twizel, a good rest stop and time to chillout (especially for Jen) before the longer journey over to Wanaka. We stopped ...
Exciting New Arrivals
This is a top pick! ... and facilities, we spent a good couple of days clearing out the vans, making alterations and buying whatever necessary to make our new abodes more convenient and to our taste. We spent one afternoon in a DIY superstore with 'Bob' who kindly cut a few ...
The Southern Alps
This is a top pick! After the whale watching, we headed west towards the big mountains - our ultimate destination the highest peak in NZ, Mount Cook. On the way, we stopped first at Peel Forest, a beautiful forest reserve where the patchwork fields of the completely flat ...
Twizel
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Twizel in our entry from Kaikoura, New Zealand entitled 'The Last of the Cliff Climbing Penguins!'. Cheers, K & ...
Twizting by the pool
This is a top pick! ... up at 8am to go to Twizel. Lorna was not in good shape! She even struggled to sleep on the bus! We arrived in Twizel at about 11am. This is your classic backstreet, redneck, inbred town. There is definitely some inter-family activity going off here! ...
Walk around the redneck town
This is a top pick! After brekky we set off and did a smooth 10km walk along the Twizel Walkway. This walk took us by streams, woodland, open fields and snow capped mountain views. It was a really decent relaxing walk. It was all helped by some fantastic hot and sunny ...
Phew, What a scorcher
This is a top pick! Up early and away on the bus to Mount Cook. I was rather surprised to find that our driver was giving a commentary on the way. "And now we're passing through the xyz suburb, part retail, part industrial and part residential", "The animals on your left ...
Blue Pools, road from Fox Glacier to Twizel
This is a top pick! ... dessus), ils en ont fait un petit film d’ « hommes musclés » pour la destruction. La route de Fox glacier à Twizel était très agréable, bien qu’avec beaucoup de tournants et elle a changé de la forêt pluvieuse et arborée ...
Lake Ohau
This is a top pick! Lake Ohau is a desolate lake village - well not even a village, there isn't anything other than two resorts (extremely far from each other) nestled in the valley of a stunning mountain range, overlooking Lake Ohau with Mount Cook in view out in the ...
There's nobody anywhere!
Sadly the view of Mount Cook was spoilt by thick cloud and torrential rain...but we found some ...
13 km in someone else's shoes
... time. You'd get all the painful up and down but only see the dirty glacier bits instead of the blue ice. Apparently they have this new 3/4 day hike that they haven't started advertising yet - this is the one you want! It gets you far enough to see the ...
bushwalks and bitches!
so after an extremely long day bushwalking, all we were after was a nice, cheap, basic cabin with fully equipped communal kitchen, some plates and pots and pans. could the first lady help us? NO! would she allow us to use her phone so we could look for ...
Najlepsze fish'n'chips w NZ
W okolicach Mt Cook zabawilismy dwa dni, pozniej wrocilismy na glowna droge, zlapalismy stopa do Twizel, gdzie oczywiscie z wejscia uderzylismy na f'n'c. I okazalo sie, ze to najlpesza rybka z frytkami jaka dotychczas jedlismy. Az zapytalem pania co to za ...
Twizel down to Dunedin - Out on our lonesome.
... you crying "whats so good about that?", but if you consider trying to find a internet cafe that actually sells coffee in New Zealand has been virtually impossible, especially in the smaller towns nevermind in Christchurch, so the idea of being able to do ...
Better Campsite!
We arrived at Twizel and loved the campsite, at least the ground was firm and the area was shaded better - but of course you didn't get the great view of Mt Cook - you win some, you lose ...
Who needs a coat?
Nick - Right, quick summary. We finished in Rotorua, caught the bus back to Auckland, spent a night and a day there before catching our flight to Christchurch that evening. The following morning we hired a car and drove to Mt. Cook, this is where I pick ...
Canterbury Trails
... the landscape. The scenery is unbelievable, it just doesn't seem real as you are driving through it. We are completely captivated by New Zealand already and we have only seen such a small part of the South Island. Lake Tekapo was stunning, the water ...
Oct 27, 2010
Escaping Kurow
Kurow - Twizel 82.83km, Average 15km/hr Today the road was windy, it often is, I know this for 2 reasons: * My trusty guide 'peddlers paradise' told me * I saw 3 perfectly good hats by the side of the road I decided though with 2 hats ...
Blown away
We had been in two minds about whether to bother going to Mount Cook, partly because we expected to see the same mountain range from the west coast and partly due to lack of time. But since we were so close we thought what the heck. The road up to Mt ...
Twizel and Mt Cook
... cook. It was really nice sunny and warm and cloud cleared by the time we got there so got some good photo's. Left about 5 pm to drive back to twizel tired from the walking and driving, and ate dinner before going to bed. off again tomorrow to ...
Mt Cook
We had loads of time before winter fest began so we decided to travel up to mt Cook as it was only a couple of hours away. The area is as you would expect amazing Blue lakes white snow capped mountains, post card perfect. We did a couple of ...