Greymouth, New Zealand Travel Blogs

Christchurh -> Greymouth -> Franz Josef
Nov 15, 2006 (34 photos)

... by TranzAlphine, conveniently in front of YMCA.  Train departure time in CHC was 8.15am and arrival in Greymouth was 12.45 pm. TranzAlphine is rated as one of the world's great scenic railway journeys!  ...

Nelson - Greymouth
Apr 4, 2006 (17 photos)

... why, but for some reason everybody seemed to have signed up for a night of culture, learning the traditional brewing techniques of New Zealand. It surely couldn't have anything to do with the free samples that had been promised at the end of it, could it? ...

Bienvenue au Far West...
Feb 19, 2009 (7 photos)

19/02/09: Je prends le train a Greymouth jusqu a Arthur's Pass, un petit village isole au coeur des montagnes... Juste pour vous expliquez un petit truc: Prendre le train en Nouvelle-Zelande, ca n'a rien a voir avec un trajet en TGV en France, c'est bien ...

Baz Vegas
Nov 3, 2005 (8 photos)

Things can't getting better than the views and sights you see from the bus while travelling from Marahau (Abel Tasman National Park ) via the Buller Gorge along the Tasman sea and stopping on the way at Kilkenny viewpoint and spotting Australia across the ...

Lazy sundays and beer tastings
Sep 30, 2008 (10 photos)

Antes de llegar a los glaciares hicimos parada, en principio por una noche, en uno de los guesthouse mas bonitos de todo el viaje... Era espectacular y nos quedamos un par de noches para disfrutar de la paz del lugar. Nos costaba como 25 euros pero ...

Greymouth
Dec 10, 2006

Greymouth

The beer tasted better the second time around!
May 6, 2006 (3 photos)

... games until the small hour. A great night was had by all. This was actually the first night we were drunk since arriving in New Zealand so the next morning we weren't a pretty sight. After breakfast we said goodbye to Jane and Dave and hit the road for ...

The beginning of the west coast
Jan 9, 2007 (2 photos)

... all over the area.  We also spent an evening hiking along a beach where jade washes ashore.  The day spent in Greymouth was a little anti-climatic as we waited for the campervan to have a minor repair, but we're heading off for the glaciers soon ...

Huge Challenge
Nov 18, 2005 (3 photos)

The trek started with full armor suit of winter gear on, including hat and even New Zealand lambs wool socks with crampons on our heavy boots for our mission of cracking the Franz Josef glacier. It didn't look that big or hard to tackle until your first ...

Heading down south
Apr 23, 2009 (18 photos)

... we got to see them though, we're only get used to all this hiking nonsense that is very popular in New Zealand. That evening in Greymouth we decided to do the Monteiths brewery tour. Monteiths is one of the major breweries in New Zealand along with ...

Greymouth, Punakaiki and Barrytown
Apr 3, 2007 (4 photos)

... slowly eroded away by the sea. We also came across "Barrytown". Now we know where Roddy Doyle bases all those books....it's not a poor part of Dublin at all....it's actually right here in New Zealand! Roddy Doyles fictional town actually exists 

Um.......creepy!
Jan 23, 2006 (2 photos)

... Tasman we left today and i just arrived in Greymouth. This morning on the bus our bus driver asks: "Nobody's planning on staying in greymouth more than one night are they???" of course i was because i hadnt really looked into it. He was then like : "Ok you ...

Greymouth
Apr 12, 2007 (6 photos)

... . It was an ok drive here but not as dramatic as the one from lake wanaka. I stopped at Shantytown just before arriving in Greymouth, this is a living history village of a goldrush town. I spent around an hour here as it was fairly interesting. Replica ...

Greymouth (the mouth of the Grey river!)
Feb 14, 2009

... our own glass of our favourite! pretty good to try them all!! still my favourite is radler tho!! the bus didnt leave greymouth until about 3:30pm for hokitika as they were all buying their costumes for their next stop....the 'poo pub'!!! i wasnt going ...

Jungle
Jan 14, 2007 (5 photos)

Die Landschaft wird nun zunehmend schoener. Regenwald aehnlich. Immer mehr Palmen und schoenere Straende.

West Coast beckons - Greymouth
Mar 3, 2006

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Greymouth
Nov 30, 2006 (1 photos)

... went through Hanmer Springs, Lewis Pass, and Maruia Springs - foggy, rainy and cold the whole time so we pushed on to Greymouth where we visited the Jade Boulder Gallery, which has a nice little display on the mythological origins of the pounamu to Maori, ...

Beer and BBQ / Bier und BBQ in Greymouth
Aug 9, 2006 (3 photos)

... as a few pints of the local Monteiths beer. A very nice evening indeed. 8ter bis 9ter August - Bier und BBQ in Greymouth Wir verliessen Nelson am Morgen fuer einen unglaublich schoenen Trip entlang der West-Kueste. Wir hatten ein paar Stops an der ...

Greymouth
Jan 26, 2009 (3 photos)

... 's glacier as well as some scenic lake side stops for picnics. We spent our first night of the road trip in Greymouth - the weather was ironically very grey!  The highlights were top notch fesh and cheps (local pronounciation!) and the backpackers ...

Greymouth, what a place!
Jul 23, 2008

We took the train from Christchurc to greymouth. It was amazing. The views you get along the way are amazing! You go through valleys up mountains and along the banks of rivers. It is winter here now so most of the mountains are covered with snow! It was ...

South Island Adventures
Sep 26, 2006 (4 photos)

... the park. The water is as blue as the waters in the Caribbean and the golden sand beaches are amazing. Next we travelled to Greymouth, which as our giude informed us is a "one night town". But, in that one night, we went on the Monteith's Brewery ...

Greymouth
Jan 8, 2009

OK, i´m going to have to rush through this. The west coast of NZ is incredible. We  drove practically in the sea.  The surf is huge and unrelenting.  We had bad coffee. After the amazing drive we popped into 2 glaciers. Unfortunately, 2 ...

Staying at the Hilton
Feb 20, 2006

... unlikely you'll see Paris here, unless she's doing a show called " the simple life goes to a rundown former mining village, which is almost a ghosttown, but does have a humourously named hotel and was the town where the New Zealand Labor party was born."

Coastal Drive (Nelson, Westport, & Greymouth)
Aug 10, 2008

More to come...

Buses and Ferries and Trains Oh My!
May 27, 2006 (2 photos)

Hi All, Greetings from Greymouth -- a tiny little nowhere-place on the west coast of the beautiful South Island! I have lots of updates for you from my last posting, so here goes... On the 25th, I travelled south by bus to Wellington. It was rainy ...

The Abel Tasman Experience
Oct 17, 2006

... with a nice long soak before showering and walking for pizza and beer for dinner (the best way to end a backpacking trip.) Greymouth is a one horse town, but it's a launching off point for several places. Weathere permitting I hope to drive through Arthur ...

Still in transit
Aug 21, 2006 (4 photos)

... few more South Asians are needed to make the place bustling. The evening in Greymouth was spent watching the rugby match between Australia and New Zealand. NZ won. Yay! The night was spent in a dodgy car park in town as the traffic wardens don't work on ...

Greymouth
Jan 12, 2006 (9 photos)

... cool-although i cried like a right girl watching it!!! If you get to see it, check out the scenery as it was filmed in New Zealand and it shows pretty much exactly what it looks like!!! Once the film finished we headed back to our hostel and got up early ...

Reizen langs de kust
Dec 15, 2007 (1 photos)

's ochtends reizen we langs de kust op weg naar de gletschers...

The Name Says it all
Feb 19, 2008

... i went to buy a magazine, only to find they have zero music magazines in stock. They do however have several copies of "New Zealand Pig Hunter". Having decided we have nothing in common with the peaople of Greymouth we were glad to leave hte next day.