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Travel Blogs from Fox Glacier
How did we fit so much into one day?
We seem to have had a very full day today - we’ve flown in a helicopter, walked on a glacier, walked along the beach by the Tasman Sea, walked in the woods round a lake and climbed to within 200m of the face of a glacier - and I’ve done some laundry (we now have T-shirts drying on the parcel shelf of the car!)!
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By Train and Car across the Southern Alps
It is our wedding anniversary today and we have had the most wonderful time! We left Christchurch on the Tranz Alpine Train which makes it’s way across the Canterbury Plain and then starts to climb the Southern Alps until it reaches Arthur’s Pass which is 920m above sea level. The scenery was very spectacular - lots of …
Superlatives becoming understated
Have had again long drives through stunningly beautiful scenery...you gets loads for your dollar here.....do not worry Jane has taken over a thousand photos...Camilla a modest 400 (she doesn't have such a good camera as Jane), so when we get home we'll put on a show! We stayed in Queenstown..very much a ski-ing place....Alan managed a half-day ski- …
Scenery, scenery and glaciers wow!!!
... a beautiful little town on the edge of the lake. We then continued on to Fox Glacier which is a small town developed around the tourist industry associated with flying over/onto the glaciers and walking expeditions to the glaciers. By now it was very cloudy and raining but we inquired about a helicopter flight for the next day. The girl in the booking office was very doubtful due to the weather forecast but booked us on provisionally ...
Ice, Ice Baby
... If it wasn't for erosion from wind and precipitation, then the mountains would be around 20km high. Impressive.
We had a lazy morning in the van then drove the short distance to the activity centre. We had a safety briefing and collected our glacier equipment of thicker socks, big jackets ad crampons. Sufficiently wrapped up, we boarded the bus and drove the ten minutes to the national park entrance. We walked through the valley that ...
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- Restaurant
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Free parking