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MacKenzie Country
Hi I'm back again Was dropped off at Christchurch Airport and picked up a car for the next few days. Started off by driving south the east coast to a place called Geraldine. Then it was inland to lake Tekapo and MacKenzie country, green rolling hills with a backdrop of snow capped mountains. On the shores of lake Tekapo in a church it has no …
Strand, bollen, sneeuw en Mt Cook
Vandaag was weer een typische NZ dag. Er was zodanig veel variatie in
de belevenissen en de ervaringen dat het nauwelijks te volgen is :-).
We vertrokken vanochtend in Dunedin (stad) terwijl men in sommige straten de
sneeuw aan het ruimen was. Daarna zijn we gestopt bij "bollen" (Moeraki Boulders) op
een prachtig strand bij …
Aoraki
For our final stop in New Zealand, we made our way up to Twizel and then into the Aoraki National Park, where we were heading to get views of Mount Cook. Getting there was generally uneventful, however at one point we were stopped by a roadblock of about 200 sheep!
Once at Mount Cook Village, we took the Kea Track to Kea Point ( …
In the shadow of the mountain
We for once stayed in bed a wee bit longer - 7 a.m. - but with days being shorter here it's probably a good idea to get an early start! The morning was slightly cloudy, but still blue skies were in sight way off the in the distance. The plan was to head to Lake Tekapo to "Air Safaries" - same "flight seeing" service we took here almost over 20 …
Mount Cook
... was 8km down a windy gravel road. The girls joined us for the walk. First we headed off to the left to the Blue Lake. It was quite a rocky scramble which was cut short when we reached part of the path that was a lake with no way around it. We think we reached the blue lake – which turned out to be a green pond – not really worth the effort! We went back on ourselves and went along the glacier path. We had hoped ...
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- Wheelchair accessibility
- Free parking
- Kids activities or Babysitting
- Kitchenette
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