Discovery Lodge

... and amateur guides waiting for turists and it's difficult to choose one serios. One of them tomorrow will leave me to an amazon "Discovery" trip, 2 days and 1 night. Here they have a lot of "Eco Tours" to the jungle for all kind of budget. Perhaps I ...

... , it is sooo sad to see them go. Now, Liz and I are on our way for a week of cruising Desolation Sound, the Discovery Islands and the Broughton Archipelago.  High winds on our bow and a flood tide running against us would cause trouble for a lesser ...

... . And to think they are on the verge of extinction. Madness! What are we humans doing? Another more positive discovery at Sepilok was the Eco-lodge we stayed at. It was beautifully constructed and designed and used so many recycled goods for the tables, ...

... wait to upload my blogs until after we got out of Yellowstone.  Today we moved our accommodations to the Old Faithful Snow Lodge, next door to the Old Faithful Inn.  It is a little more modern in their accommodations and in the same Old ...

... which took 1hour 45 minutes. As we ride up the river, the sun was just starting to rise. We arive at our destination, ExplorNapo Lodge, and are greated by a kaipibarra, or the worlds largest rodent - think a huge guinea pig that acts like a dog. We ...

... and amateur guides waiting for turists and it's difficult to choose one serios. One of them tomorrow will leave me to an amazon "Discovery" trip, 2 days and 1 night. Here they have a lot of "Eco Tours" to the jungle for all kind of budget. Perhaps I ...

... population we have seen it will explode even further unless AIDS kills millions in the short to medium term. Another amazing discovery is that I am travelling with royalty JP says he is the illegitimate great grandson of King Leopold the second of ...

... . Weather wasn't too brilliant, cloudy and a bit drizzly. We drove up to the ski field which was about 12km from Discovery Lodge, and 6km from Whakapapa Village. We bought the Discovery Package which included snowboard and boots hire as well as lift ...

... crossing is from Mangatepopo to Ketetahi. You can do it the other way but that involves a lot more climbing. We stayed in Discovery Lodge as this is the closest accommodation to the start of the walk. We arrived on Friday night around 9.30pm and went ...

... the landing which involved negotiating the mountains to get to the landing strip. At the airport I grabbed a shuttle into town to the Discovery Lodge where I was staying for a few nights. The lodge was nice enough, but was pretty big and was full of lots ...

... saved alot of money for the effort. That night we booked into the nearest Backpackers for a good nights rest, a place called the Discovery lodge or Disco lodge for short.  As it was $25 a night we decided to sleep in the van and use the Bp's to ...

... other though. The weather forecasts had finally predicted some decent weather for the Tongariro crossing, so we booked in at the Discovery Lodge (they have their own transport, that starts before everyone else, for a bit of peace and quiet. We ...

... it was only lunch time! So we hit the road again and continued heading down south (although it was only a short trip this time) to Discovery Lodge in National Park Village, which was to be our home for the next two nights. After what was, quite frankly, a ...

... them self's off of the bridge. we then travelled into the center of Queens town and to our accommodation for the night, the discovery lodge hostel. this was a very large hostel, but the rooms were clean and the beds has linen. my room was right above the ...

... wood. We then drove all the way to Whakapapa Ski field and checked that it was all due to open on the 24th. Camped at the Discovery Lodge which was $10 per persion for a powered site. The cheapest so far. It had a lounge room with free dvds and free ...

... over an agricultural hill to see 2 volcanoes in the distance with snow on the slopes. Amazing sight. We were staying in the Discovery Lodge and upon aksing about the Crossing the next day was informed that it was dubious as to whether it was going to ...

... Ngauruhoe is instantly recognisable as Mordor's Mount Doom from Lord of the rings, we were thrilled to see it. We stayed at the Discovery Lodge which is a nice campsite with basic facilities but has a restaurant and is the only park to have a view of all ...

... but others including Denise (BRZ) took the plunge.  Saw one girl loose her shoe to the river. Booked in at the Discovery Lodge.  May not be the greatest of places but it does have a good view of the surrounding mountains.  Took the easy ...

... status, then we have clarity this morning.  Last night the Stray bus people were booked into XBase (real name) or Discovery Lodge (pretty name, but I should have asked what was being discovered).  I write today on one hour of sleep, ...

... of the lake.  In the evening I walked round to the hostel where all my friends from the Stray bus were booked in (Discovery Lodge) to 'discover' it was pretty bad - no cutlery as everyone kept stealing it, no-one was washing up, my friends had ...

... lakes. We arrived in Queenstown, which is a really alpine town, surrounded by mountains, about 5.30 got our hostel room at the discovery lodge, which was pretty lush and hit the hay. on the 11th we were up early as we had to check out to change rooms ...