Te Anau Ranches - Reviews and Rates

Today is bungy day. We woke up and had breakfast as we held back the excitement of jumping at 3pm. We decided to play outdoor mini golf which was across from the indoor mini golf since the weather was much nicer today. Once the time came we headed up the Gondola to the top of the hill to take advantage of our 5 Luge runs before the bungy jump. T...

A relaxing couple of days in Te Anau, a pretty little town on the borders of the Fjordland national park. A big jumping off point for extended walks in the parks, specifically for the Milford and Kepler tracks. Being somewhat short on time and lacking essential camping gear, I´d not attempted any of the longer tramps, but they´ll certainly be wo...

Sunday we spent driving around the Catlins coast with rugged scenery and more seals, sealions and birds. We were just starting to get a feel of the South Island, its distances more manageable than South America's, yet still vast areas of pretty countryside, and very little on the roads. We headed around to Invercargill, then cut inland and heade...

Well, the last two days were filled with lots of interesting things. We started in Oamaru and headed south. On our way we passed the Moeraki boulders - huge round stones, which look like great marbles. the theory says they were formed by layers of stone engulfing a single spec of a plant or dirt or something. We continued to the Moeraki lighthou...

Doubtful Sound...no, not wondering if we actually heard something or not, this is the place we went to today. The main Fjord/Fiord that everyone tends to visit her ein Fjordland is Milford Sound, but we had also been recommended to go to Doubtful as well. As we could only really afford one we went for Doubtful. We were poicked up nice and early ...

Hi everyone, Well lots to write about and as usual not enough time in the day to everything. Very easy journey from Sydney to Christchurch on Emirates - staff travel standby has never been so easy. Val is now convinced that economy on Em is better than First on BA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!1 Picked up Beautiful Betty (our turq...

Well I've spent another day travelling and I am now in Te Anau. From here I had planned to kayak Doubtful Sound, but they don't do kayaking there at this time of year, so I can't. My other option is Milford Sound, but the road up there is closed the moment due to snow. I'm hoping it'll be open tomorrow morning, as apparently it's a beautiful dri...

Hanging out with Mel and Jenn, you learn that adventure is never far away. After our two-day kayaking trip, we talked about hiking the Kepler Track, one of New Zealand's "Great Walks", a 72k, three-day circuit traversing mountain ridges through some of New Zealand's most spectacular scenery in the Fiordland National Park.. Originally, I hadn't c...

Not much to report about today. The weather was still terrible in Invercargill but I had to wait until 3.30pm for my bus to Te Anau. So I took another walk around town in the morning, headed to the supermarket for provisions, and then headed back to the hostel to wait for the bus. I arrived at Te Anau at about 7pm. I had picked up some leaflets ...

We left Dunedin and headed cross country to Te Anau in the west. We passed through our most southerly point on our whole trip today. Town called Balcutha. So that must mean we are on our way home! Anyway Te Anau is another pretty town. Perched on the edge of a huge lake surrounded by mountains. Beautiful. We decided to go on a trip to the Glowor...