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Akaroa Slideshow
Akaroa
Travel Blogs from Akaroa, New Zealand
drive to Akaroa
After a very relaxing week in Dunedin with our great friends, we moved again. Our drive took us about 5 hours and ended in Akaroa. Its an Peninsula that used to be a vulcano. One side collapsed and the sea made its way to the ...
Day 20 - Bonjour Akaroa
... , we're on vacation). We are staying in the Akaroa Holiday Park which is located up high on one of the surrounding hills that overlooks Akaroa town and bay. Our powered site sits right on the bluff for the best view in the whole park (see photos). The ...
A Rugby Ball with Fins! - Really
... the hills of Akaroa the night before we awoke to greeted by the beautiful, but slightly onion-ee with a whiff of garlic, vista. Akaroa was originally found by the French, but after one too many vino's the English (bitter enemies at the time, best friends ...
Day 21 - Akaroa by bike
We spent the day riding our bikes around Akaroa. We have found it a great way to venture around and see an area, plus getting exercise. I have to admit that I am quite out of shape. I don't know how cyclers deal with a sore bum after a day of sitting on ...
Pascua de excursión en el maletero
... : me han llevado a playas desiertas, a tomar un helado en un café afrancesado, exquisito chocolate, un vinito en el mejor hotel de Akaroa, unos fish&chips y hasta me han dado caña y cebo en mi primera lección de pesca. No he pescado más que algas ...
Ah, bonjour!
Our destination after Wanaka was supposed to be Mount Cook. There are lots of walking opportunities and it's a nice remote area of New Zealand. The drive in is very pretty with the huge Lake Tekapo taking up most of the view. When we got ...
Pardon Monsieur, ou est Akaroa?
... for one extra night compensation. Then headed out via Littleton to the Banks Peninsular to look at the ex-French whaling colony of Akaroa. The closer we got the worse the weather became until we arrived in torrential rain. Had a coffee and pasty in a ...
Akaroa
... a motel in the small estuary village of Duvauchelle. The French sounding name is from the first French settlers here in New Zealand. We walked a track down the estuary, watching the seabirds, oystercatchers, cormorants, terns and a crane. The estuary ...
Introducing Zilly!
When we started our descent into Christchurch this morning we approached New Zealand from the southern end of the South island and as I watched the mountains glide by below I felt incredibly excited. There is a certain level of excitement for me when ...
Hinewai Reserve
... :-) Die Huette liegt hier am einzigen Sandstrand, ganz nett. Dann verlaesst man allerdings die Kueste und wandert zurueck gen Akaroa, durch das Hinewai Reservat, ein privat gemanagetes Wildnisreservat (auch von solchen gibt es einige in NZ). Man wandert ...
Akaroa, Dolphins
... ;a subsequent expensive rental car, a Toyota Camry, would later die and never return the iPod cassette adaptor. Now I'm in New Zealand with the fam and we have a Toyota Lucida minivan, again a rental. Mom rented it from a ...
Adorable Dolphins
I took a day trip out of Christchurch and headed for the quaint French village of Akaroa. Through ChCh i-site I booked on a tour bus that picked me up from my hostel and took me to Akaroa. On the way we stopped for coffee at an impressive ...
Banks Peninsula Track
... der Alkohol verkauft (und ein gutes Geschaeft macht:-). Gruss Ralf P.S. Fun Fact "Four Nights, Four Days, Four Beaches, For Bays" is the slogan of the Banks Peninsula Track, which started in 1989 as the first private tramping track in New ...
The end of the road (trip)...
... March We spent this morning looking round Akaroa, which is a small town with a lot of obvious French influences as it was New Zealand's first French settlement. We treated ourselves to chips for lunch to mark the last day of our road trip. ...
Invasion of French Harbour Town
... , aber vor Ort konnte ich doch noch eine Buchung machen nur um dann ein paar Stunden spaeter zu erfahren, dass alle Touren wegen Wind abgesagt wurden. Argh! Gruss Ralf P.S. Fun Fact New Zealand has 2.3 million registered cars and 8000 ...
Akaroa
About forty minutes outside Christchurch is Akaroa a little fishing port that was mainly enhabited by the french so today you find quite a bit of French stuff here you know croissants and that sort of thing.If you ever find your self in Christchurch ...
Akaroa
... country, though in hind sight wish we had stayed a little longer. We would strongly recommend visting Akaroa if you are in New Zealand. Recommendation - Akaroa, we strongly recommend visiting Akaroa if you are in ...
Swimming with Dolphins
We got up nice and early this morning to drive out to the Banks peninsula, to Akaroa - the first French settlement in NZ. It took slightly longer than we had anticipated, again due to the winding and steep nature of the roads. But we managed to arrive in ...
En terre francaise!
... français ici compte tenu que je suis à la recherche d'un travail...Mais comme j'avais bouquée pour une excursion d'une journée à Akaroa, j'ai repris la route vers Christchurch. Surtout que mes autobus pour Tekapo et Mont Cook sont déjà réservés. ...
Akaroa
... men are called Dave (famous people and sportsmen must be imports). I spent most of the day not understanding him (and presumably likewise). Akaroa is a tiny little town on the sea front that all you can really do is laze, walk, drink (if you dare get ...
Banks Peninsula
Unsere letzten Naechte vor dem Rueckflug nach Auckland wollten wir wenigstens schon mal in der Naehe von Christchurch verbringen. Da bot sich die Banks Peninsula ja geradezu an. Direkt hinter Christchurch beginnt diese riesengrosse Halbinsel, die ...
Pie's and Akaroa
... i was in. Weird in a way last time i had seen him was in Cambodias capitol Phnom Phen back in November. He is traveling about new zealand now for a few weeks so myself Karl and Dave hit a few bars about the city and caught up before he headed north for ...
A taste of France
... for the festival is that back in 1840 the French did land in the tiny port town and although they failed to claim New Zealand as their own many of the local families are descended from those original colonists and the town retains a certain frechness... ...
Najmniejsze delfiny na największym oceanie
... ;sieniu ziemi... Basta! Dziś o naszych poszukiwaniach małych delfinów. Ogromnie udanych. Przy wspaniałej pogodzie. Akaroa to niezmiernie ciekawe miejsce - strasznie chcieli je skolonizować Francuzi, ale spóźnili się ze dwa ...
Takamatua Hilton
... at the Hill Top Cafe. Fantastic views down to Akaroa. Now we were really excited - this was our first taste of what New Zealand had to offer over the coming weeks. Whilst in the area, we were lucky enough to be staying with Trud and ...
Beautiful banks peninsula
... sad to hand him back :( Unfortunately, the price just made it too expensive to contemplate another campervan for the north island but we certainly would recommend it as a way of travel to anyone exploring New Zealand. We were certainly happy campers ...
Akaroa
... city with some very nice shops. We stopped there for coffee. Our final destination was the very pretty French seaside town of Akaroa. This is the only settlement in NZ to have been colonised by the French. We really like this place and could have ...
Bay watch
Took the scenic drive through Banks peninsula. That's a nice place to see. took a short walk to the peninsula at the center of the bay. it rained a lot that's pretty much ...
Meet 'The Beast'
... ' as it's affectionately called. We've also got snow chains (help!) in csae waether turns. We headed south of Christchurch to Akaroa - a sleepy little town on the sea. Lovely place and very peaceful. The scenery out there is beautiful. Akaroa is on the ...