Omarama Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Ok, we have made it to Omarama, the place of light, as so called by Maori. This morning it was an early dark and somewhat cold and overcast one in Christchurch. Car had to be at the tinters at 9AM and even at 8AM down here its stil quite dark. Managed to get the car there and the boys took it in as soon as they arrived on the dot at 9AM. Took a ...

After their skiing plans were thwarted, Barnaby and his friends decided to tour the valley leading to Mount Cook.

Nadat Ann-Sophie tot haar positieve kwam, trekken we verder naar het noorden...richting zon :-)

Onderweg komen we mooie meren tegen, zoals het meer aan Queenstown en Glenorchy, en het meer aan Wanaka

















Tot de volgende

A few observations about NZ: Here in NZ, like no other country we've been to, the hot water for the sink is on the right and the cold is on the left (opposite to home) When people talk here they are a little hard to understand for us sometimes, they say the letter 'e' with a sound that sounds like the way we say 'i'. (for example - do you have a...

Sur notre route, nous nous arrêtons dans un ranch très sympa, The Wrinkly Rams. Il s'agit d'un endroit tenu par des éleveurs de moutons. Dans ce ranch, on peut bien sûr s'y restaurer mais ces éleveurs proposent des produits de fabrication artisanale et on peut surtout assister et participer à la tonte des moutons, une expérience hors du commun!

Settled in last night with the wind howling and rain falling, but cosy in the motorhome with the heater on. Where we parked, there was a gum tree with an overhanging branch, annoying because each time the wind blew, the branch would scratch across the roof of the motorhome. We finally relented at about 9.45pm and got up to shift sites away from ...

Left the wild west town of Omarama and headed north. It wasn't long before we reached Lake Pukaki, a fantastic, huge, shimmering turquoise lake that stretches for over 40km to the foot of New Zealand's highest mountain, Aoraki Mount Cook. We drove along the lake to the mountain, stopping a couple of times for view points. At the mountain the wea...

Next I went to Omarama to visit a Chris's friend who's a pilot at a glider place. It was cool, I went up in the tow plane and got to see the area from above. Basically it's flat and barren with huge mountains coming up. In the area was a badlands that I went to check out early one morning. This little country has every kind of landscape you can ...