Kingsgate Hotel Te Anau
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Onward to Fiordland
Leisurely b'fast and visit with our hosts. After a walk around the lovely grounds with Emma the chocolate lab as our enthusiastic guide, at 10:00 a.m. we headed W/NW on Rte. 99 (part of the "Scenic Southern Route"). Stopped at Riverton where we did some shopping and visited a little museum with wonderful life-size dioramas of early Maori life in …
Legs eleven
Another really spectacular drive through high mountains and large blue lakes, weather hot and sunny,, we couldn't ask for more. Oh except for every schoolboys dream,, a steam train in the middle of nowhere, well a tiny little hamlet called Kingston. A word on townships and city's in New Zealand. City's are anything that seems larger than about 5000 …
Milford Sound
Tha alarm clock wakes us up at 5:45 am, and when we get out of the hotel, the doors have just been opened (at night, for safety, they are locked). It is still dark, so we hope we'll be able to see some free kiwi (they only go out at night) on the road from Te Anau to Milford, which is 120 kms long, but it takes 2 hours driving, be careful... We …
Hiking for nothing
The wind blowing wakes us up again, and we are afraid to have a rainy day which would make us miss he whole day, because our aim today is hike all day. Luckily, it is only wind...We check out from Parksland Motel, and a few hundreds of meters away, right on the shore of the lake, we check in at Kingsgate hotel. The room isn't ready yet, so we just …
There Are No Words
This day was a gift. I have had the opportunity to see and experience the most incredibly beautiful scenery I have ever seen and may ever see in my life.
Today, our tour of the South Island of New Zealand took us to the most magical places. We left Queenstown and as we drove early in the morning, we saw why New Zealand is known as "The …