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Te Anau Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Te Anau, New Zealand
Manapouri
From Invercargill it was about a 170km drive to get to Manapouri saying goodbye to the ocean as we sped inland and upwards. Manapouri itself held very little but was in such a gorgeous setting. We stayed at quite a quirky campsite that housed its own ...
lush green lands
... the most impressive rainbow ever - it lasted for ages. And we did see some impressive scenery with spectacular waterfalls. We returned to Te Anau to a mixture of sunshine and showers (at the same time) and just relaxed by lake Te Anau for the rest of ...
F*@king sandflies
Stayed in Te Anau for two nights so we could see Milford Sound. Milford Sound was incorrectly named as a "Sound". Sounds are formed by water erosion. It should have been called Milford Fjord because it was carved by ice. That's today's ...
Sounds like a Fjord
... face. The boat also nudged into the spray of one of the falls, which allegedly has rejuvenating powers on the 1st day of the new year. It may well do but did nothing to make my hangover go away! Once back on the road we almost left Denise ...
Te Anau
... Aussicht in Grenzen hielt - wenigstens schien die Sonne :-) Nachdem Einchecken und Einkaufen frischer Lebensmittel erkundeten wir die Innenstadt ("Te Anau" ist eine relativ kleine Stadt mit ca. 2000 Einwohnern) und liefen ein wenig am See entlang. Gino ...
‘The first tramp…’
... trip and questions about missing frying pans it wasn’t easy. Finally up and showered and Helen comes back from a wander around Te Anau with news of a local 3-hour tramp through woods to a lake (yes another, but I can’t get enough, ...
Rock Shelter to Dart Hut, then to Cascade Saddle!!
See info on the Rees-Dart trail in Mt. Aspiring National Park. See some great maps of the Rees-Dart Track (including elevations changes). Maps are part of "Photodiary of a Nomad" at http://www.gang-gang.net/nomad. Shelter Rock Hut to Dart Hut - 9 ...
TeAnau Glow Worms and Caves
Today was a picture perfect day, the sun was shinning big time and I went on the TeAnau Glow Worms Cave tour..... you get the boat out to the cave - which takes about 30 mins on the most gorgeous lake cruise. When you get there you get put into groups ...
Travelling onto Te Anau
... leaflets in the Invercargill tourist centre, and en route I decided when I got to Te Anau to book a horse trek and a trip to the Te Anau glowworm caves for tomorrow. Luckily the hostel arranged everything for me and I was able to get booked on to ...
Travel plans for the next 2 to 3 weeks
... expensive Milford Track, but taking one of the lesser-known tracks to another sound. I'll try to find some internet in Te Anau or Invercargill after our Stewart's Island trip, but I'm not making any promises. However we do have to visit a ...
Down to Doubtful Sound in New Zealand
... - this area gets 500-600 meters a year!) After a long day of flying yesterday we finally made it to Queenstown. Halfway to New Zealand, our 727 had to turn around because there was a huge crack in the pilot's windscreen. We got on another plane and ...
The Milford Sounds
... certainly the most visually spectacular part of our journey. We left Dunedin and headed for another free campsite just slightly south of Te Anau, needless to say the campsite was 30km from the main road, next to a lake filled with mozzies and noone ...
Te Anau Day 62
... "McCracken"). We then stopped past a funny shed which had been painted to look like the school bus from the Simpsons. After we arrived in Te Anau we went and had some food and then went to a couple of bars and had some drinks as it was Leslie's birthday ...
Milford and Doubtful Sound Kayaking
... .) We saw a few seals and several different types of birds. At the end of the day, we were reunited with our bags in Te Anau and took a shower (after 4 days we needed it.) We scrambled around in town to gather some more food, check the internet and ...
Te Anau
19.1.09 Our next destination on this road trip was Te Anau - gateway to Milford Sound. Here we treated ourselves to a proper camping ground again to recharge the battery, fill up with water and have a hot shower. This was our last chance to ...
Doubtful Sound overnight cruise
... for a quick breakfast in Queenstown. The cruise office was deserted of passengers when we got there because we milled about in Te Anau for our two hours and so we were only 10 minutes from our departure time....OMG....the receptionist made sure of ...
Kindness of Strangers
Shar: So we finished the Routeburn today, getting to the carpark at the end of trail in the early morning. The walk from the camping site was less than two hours and as usual, lovely. We left in the rain but a little ways down the trail it stopped and we ...
Te Anau
... hora de trajecte. Seran les 3.15 quan tornarem pel mateix cami que vam arribar, ja que no n'hi ha d'altre. Arribarem a quarts de 6pm a Te Anau. Si dema fa bon temps potser farem un vol aeri per Doubtful Sound (plan A) o una ruta amb Jetboat (plan B)... ja ...
5....4....3....2....1....BUNGEEEEEEE
... We got both the photos and a DVD of the jump as well as free t-shirts!!! After the jump we headed (via the shops) to Te Anau, where we were made incredibly jealous that we don't live there!!! Chris and viv live on 5 acres of land overlooking the lake and ...
Te Anua
On the 3rd April we made the drive to Te Anua. Not much to say as this was just a stopover on our way to Milford. Unfortunately there is no short way to Milford (about 5 hour drive from Queenstown) unless you fly. Stayed at the Lakefront backpackers, not ...
Te Anau
... . Our first stop was at the Wildlife Centre on the entrance to town. Here there were some out door enclosures housing native New Zealand birds including Keas, Kakas, Weka, Parakeets and the extremely rare Takahae. It was the first time I had seen many ...
Fiordland
... for later in the week. The next day we started the Kepler track, a 4 day walk which takes you into the mountains between lake Te Anau and Manapouri. The first day we walked through a gorgeous hobit wood, up to above the tree line. That night we stayed ...
Fiordland 2 - Doubtful Sound
... ve come to learn that a casual approach to customers and an assumption that they will fend for themselves is often the norm in New Zealand) Mark, Polly, John and Anne, who all got on really well together, actually had an excellent 24 hours aboard the ...
Huge fish and Forty Meter Waves in New Zealand
... him not to kill the deer. But he said they are feral and a danger to the environment here because they are not indigenous (New Zealand did not have any mammals until settlers arrived from Europe.) and he has to shoot them. Kind of crazy. Since we ...