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Greymouth Slideshow
Greymouth
Travel Blogs from Greymouth, New Zealand
The South Island - Picton to Greymouth
... set up camp here for the night before heading to Anakiwa - the town at the start of the Queen Charlotte Track, one of New Zealand's Great Walks. Unfortunately, the full walk is three whole days long, and because we had the campervan we couldn't commit to ...
Magic Bus to Franz Josef Glacier
... higher, with a great blue sky and very few clouds. It was similar yesterday. This is rare apparently for the west coast of New Zealand, which gets extremely high rainfall and is not known for sunshine. Along the route we passed over quite a few rivers, ...
Pukaki pancake rocks
V: The road north continued along the coast and we stopped for the night at Greymouth, which quite frankly was a little bit ‘grey’ in all manners possible. The next morning we followed the road which hugged the coastline to Pukaki Rocks. This ...
Serenity!
... do was get on a bus to travel to Greymoth which was where i was catching the trans alpine train to christchurch. The hostel in greymouth was probably the nicest i have been to. The hostel had a real asian feel to it, i think the owner was from thailand. ...
The Bill
... to discover we could see snow capped mountains in the distance and we were beginning to discover the unique landscape that makes New Zealand's south island so beautiful. Everyone touring New Zealand spends more time in the south island than the north, ...
What a dive!
Today we left Hokitika and drove to Greymouth, which was a drive... even the McDonalds was like somthing that came out of your rear end! So we gladly continued our journey to the Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki National ...
Transalpine Train...
... i was workn there so didnt bother sayn nethin to her. Glad to sleep acturally and not pay any heed to her. hehe. So in greymouth didnt see much either.. had about 40 mins there, so had a bita a wander in the spitting rain.. got to see the inside of ...
Greymouth
We are in Greymouth for one night an we saw some interesting coastline and rock formations along the way. Greymouth is a mining and hunting town with a population of about 12000. It is a stop towards our destination, Franz Josef where we will ...
Greymouth
Still raining as you can see from the pics! We visit the pancake rocks and then arrive in Greymouth for a brewery tour, bbq and pub crawl where we make friends with a dwarf who likes to dance with fully grown men on his shoulders... and a maori woman who ...
Christchurh -> Greymouth -> Franz Josef
... 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! ...
Greymouth
... pictures). Our next stop was the pancake rocks, which were the strangest things we have ever seen! When we had arrived in Greymouth, a Brewery tour had been organised (lots of beer and cider tasting) and afterwards a nice sit down meal of minted ...
Nelson - Greymouth
... 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 ...
Bienvenue au Far West...
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
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 ...
Lazy sundays and beer tastings
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 ...
The beer tasted better the second time around!
... 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 ...
Huge Challenge
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 ...
The Longest Swing Bridge In New Zealand
... gorge, I stuck with walking back across the bridge, that was scary enough for me! Once back in the car we decided to head back to Greymouth following the inland road, there are a few things to see on this route but when we got out of the car to take some ...
Heading down south
... 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
... 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 ...
Um.......creepy!
... 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 ...
Greymouth
... . 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 ...
A Grey City on a Gray Day
... in the sun too. It was really quite cool to see! During this stop we also saw some wekas strutting around. They're a native New Zealand bird, surprisingly not threatened, and to me they kind of look like chickens with bird heads, lol. They're pretty cute ...
Greymouth (the mouth of the Grey river!)
... 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
Die Landschaft wird nun zunehmend schoener. Regenwald aehnlich. Immer mehr Palmen und schoenere ...
Greymouth
... 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 ...
Beer and BBQ / Bier und BBQ in Greymouth
... 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 ...