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Te Anau Slideshow
Te Anau
Travel Blogs from Te Anau, New Zealand
'The Finest Walk in the World'
This is a top pick! 'It was difficult to realise that we were merely passing through a piece of New Zealand bush, and not through a specially-prepared corner of fairy land. It was without exception, the most unique, charming and delicately beautiful bit of woodland scenery ...
Te Anau/Milford Sound
This is a top pick! It's a long drive from Queenstown to Milford Sound. The scenery to The Sound is amazing, particularly from Te Anau..so there are lots of stops along the way to take photos. Sue and Harry the Aussie couple we hung out with in Queenstown ...
The Sound of Silence
This is a top pick! ... inaccessible. Adrian and the others picked me up at 6.10am Thursday morning and from there we drove to Manapouri, just South of Te Anau. After transferring the gear from the trailer to the boat we blasted across Lake Manapouri for a good hour or so ...
Te Anau
This is a top pick! ... for a couple of hours so not sure about the next journey but the long and short is that we cruised though Queenstown and onto Te anu which was the starting point for our trek the next day. Checked into our holiday cabin had a chinese that could feed an ...
Possum Pies
This is a top pick! ... an IT geek or something equally as shocking ;o) Talking of that I actually just rejoined the corporate jugernaut and have landed a new contract up in Nelson starting tomorrow with the airline Origin Pacific. Should get some free flights and they're paying ...
Smiles at Sunset
This is a top pick! ... to Te Anau quite leisurely and arrived just as the sun was setting. I was welcomed by a beautiful sunset dominantly glowing over Lake Te Anau and without any hesitation I drove straight to the lake to take it all in. It was gorgeous. The benches, the ...
An Easter Regatta
This is a top pick! ... round talking a couple of nights ago and Sam was telling me how they were here for the 'Easter Regatta'; a yacht race around Lake Te Anau put on each year by the sailing club. It turned out that the final race day was the following morning (Easter ...
Outward Bound around Milford Sound
This is a top pick! ... the fuss is about, we're not in Britain anymore, Toto. The imaginativly named Southland gives way to the aspects and panoramas New Zealand has recently become even more famous for, thanks to the low budget film everyone has been talking about, "Lord of ...
Sogging Camping
This is a top pick! Woke up to a rather overcast day -- questionable on whether kayaking Milford Sound was a good idea. The camping had been good, but it was a quick shovel down the oatmeal, break camp and hop in the car back to Milford Sound. We had such an amazing ...
Exploring Fjordland
... have to go around the big mountains and so it does take about four hours to get there. In this time we realise that New Zealand drivers are absolutely mental (definitely not known for their overtaking skills) but at least the police seem to know this and ...
Let me tell you a story after our exciting ...
This is a top pick! ... pity the poor people in a tent in that field. They must have thought some invasion was going on. We then left Queenstown for Te Anau which is the gateway to Fiordland. After lunch by the lake there we decided to head towards Milford Sound ready for an ...
Getting Ready for the Milford Track
This is a top pick! A place to relax, fill our bellys with fatty foods, and get any gear in preparation for the Milford Track! Laid-back setting on a beautiful lake what more could you ask ...
May 03, 2011
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Nice Roads, The Southlands Race & A Steam Train
This is a top pick! Day 299; Set of early so we wouldn't arrive to late in te anau, the drive was nice lots of country side and windy roads. On the way we got stopped by a police car, they had a cycle race going on where 150 people where cycling 200km from one ...
Juggling Lessons and Fergburgers
This is a top pick! We checked into Te Anau and it was already dark so we would have to wait till morning to see the lakefront view. After a restless sleep, we spent the next day walking around the lake. Kenneth and I were facinated by the large red and white spotted ...
Doubtful Sounds......
This is a top pick! ... this sort of thing interest you. On the bus we headed across on the road that was the most expensive road ever built in new Zealand, (they chose this option of building the road over others option thinking it would be the cheapest and it ended up being ...
Wanted: Two New Pairs of Men's Feet
... than the day before due to the condition of our feet. We pulled off the track at Rainbow Road and caught a ride back to Te Anau. Max can barely walk today and I am still quite sore. We'll take a few days off then drive to ...
Milford Track
The Milford Track is one of New Zealand's "Great Walks" and must be done in 4 days, staying at designated huts each of the 3 nights. It is 53.5 km long. The brochure stresses that it will rain at least one day of the walk, but We somehow managed to find 4 ...
Milford Sound
Fiordlamd National Park was breathtaking in its' size and splendor. We were lucky to experience two beautiful days of sunshine in a place where the average rainfall is 7 metres per annum. The surrounding mountains are approximately 1 mile high ... just ...
Santa gets to Fjordland
... hike along the ridge of the Kepler Mountains. We stayed in a great little hostel relatively close to the starting point just outside Te Anau and awoke on Christmas Eve morning with crossed fingers for good weather. Our plan was to do the trek over ...
Milford Sound and Doubtful Sound
The best way to visit the stunning Fjordland of the South Island is to cruise along the serene waters. Milford and Doubtful Sounds are actually "fjords" as they were created by glaciers rather than rivers (which create "sounds"). The marine ...
Queenstown to Doubtful Sound
... is even a slide show before bed. It is enjoyable meeting folks from England and Germany as well as some local Kiwis (what New Zealanders call themselves, along with the names for their native flightless bird and the local fruit). Towards the end of the ...
Milford Sound + rain = ?
... 's been great having mam here again, nice to be looked after again the way mam's do. :o) We spent the last few days in Te Anau, a few hours drive away from Queenstown. We checked in to the Great Lakes Holiday Park after Scott told me how great it was. ...
Doubtful Sound, South Island, NZ
... in other seas they are very deep. Lake Manapouri is a very pretty, no beautiful, lake and is the collecting water for Lakes Te Anau, Waiau and Mararoa. From there the water flows through a ‘tunnel’ beneath the Fiordland Mountains to the ...