Te Anau
Travel Blogs from Te Anau, New Zealand
Cruising on Milford Sound
Hot and balmy evening. Up early and had a cooked breakfast. Bus picking us up at 7.30am for the trip to Milford Sound. Alex, the bus driver was very informative and had a great sense of humour. At Milford Sound transferred to the Milford Mariner for ...
Surfing in the South Pacific
... and Zsofi. We booked ourselves in at the hostel for 5 days hoping to get lots of walking in as Te Anau is known as the walking capital of New Zealand. Three days were a complete washout, but the other two days were spent walking sections of the Kepler ...
Dance of the New Zealand woodland pigeon
Synopsis. Stay tune for more. Staying at the Holday Park. Too tired to move to cheaper accommodation this morning so will stay here tonight as well. Slept in until 9am today!!!! Usually are on the road by now. So nice to just hang out at the Lake. ...
Doubtful Sound
... we could run and catch our next tour to the glowworm caves. 7:00 PM - The trip started out at the Real Journey's office in Te Anau, a block away from our hotel and town center (one street with one of everything, and all closed by 6pm). I prepid this too, ...
Why you drinkin a baby pint?
Another night in a local holiday park and it was a fairly good night. The All Blacks beat the Aussies and the beer at the local pub "The Ranch" was pouring right. Unfortunately their were a couple of annoying college kids from Dunedin sitting behind us. ...
ice and mountains and sheep. lots of sheep.
... sea level, then dropping down very quickly into town. From there it was a hop skip and jump (of 2+ more hours...) to Te Anau across the Southland plains. The views? Are of sheep. And Mountains. And more sheep. And ...
Rugby match thwarts our plans
... to stay in Queenstown but there's a rugby match in town that I didn't know about in my planning, and we haven't pre-booked accommodation. We have to push through to Te Anau tonight, which also will have trouble finding a place to cheap....I mean ...
who would've thought rain could be a great thing
... Very steep, raining. Through bloody Homer Tunnel – not as bad going out as you have right of way. Back though Te Anau and on to Manapouri. Drove past where we’re staying then down to jetty to see where boat leaves ...
Weird little glow worms
After stopping in to catch up and see Uncle Jim to admire his garden (he's got green fingers, just like gran's :) and take a brisk walk along the beach, we headed over to Lake Te Anau for an evening tour of the glow worm ...

