Te Anau Backpackers

... to us... then we thought it was a long way so we had to stop somewhere...Cook Islands was the winner! Then New Year's Eve 2010 in Sydney with a luxurious hotel after the 20 odd days of backpackers in NZ, we're definitely lookign forward to it!

Dunedin - Te Anau, having purchased a intercity flexi-pass we sit back and let someone else do the driving whilst we take in this beautiful 4.5hr drive. Our driver looks like Matthew Kelly and I laugh silently whilst trying not to get caught taking a ...

... .  that evening we met up with Jochen and had dinner together etc.  Monday 18th February 2008:  Got up early and left Te Anau at about 8am as Jochen was going to Balclutha and dropping us at our second Wwoofing job on the way as it was ...

... SIX nights! Ha! I arrived last Friday afternoon after a 2 1/4-hour bus ride from Queenstown through some gorgeous countryside. Te Anau is southwest of Queenstown and nestled right into the eastern side of the Kepler Mountains, part of the Southern ...

... the morning after breakfast we drove to our next destination Te Anau. Te Anau is a small town by the lake of the same name. Lake Te Anau which is 33 miles long and 6 miles wide, is the second largest lake in New Zealand after Lake Tepako. When we drove ...

... had a couple of tense moments until someone woke up and unlocked the door in the morning and I could shoot out to the toilet. Te Anau is really only known as the gateway to the Milford Sounds. We spent the afternoon booking our trips for the next days, ...

... early model electrical bicycle. But that stuff's only really interesting if you're an engineer or something.. ;-) We then drove to Te Anau (about 2 hours), where we'd booked a stay in purpose-built cottages with an awesome view. It was definitely a stay ...

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Wake up Wanaka, drive through Queenstown, stay Te Anau ready for Doubtful Sound cruise - it really is a whistlestop tour of NZ. We broke up today's journey with a fantastic jet boat trip along the Dart River. This left from a small place called Glenorchy. ...

... on the wet freezing ground. I think I got maybe 6 hours total sleep in 2 nights. After doing nothing out of the ordinary in Te Anau for a couple of days it was time to head to Dunedun. Dunedun is one of the bigger cities in New Zealand. It's ...

... !).  Once we were unloaded we made our way back into town for a mooch about.  Most of the shops are based next to Lake Te Anau which is pretty spectacular and gave us a taster of what we would see over the next day or so.   So, after ...

... for only the past two though. We left Milton Sound after the cruise and a fry-up breafast and hit the road back toward Te Anau. The drive is awe-inspring and in many ways Alaskan, with the big snow-capped mountains and wild rivers. We decided to ...

En fin d'après midi à Te Anau, nous arrivons au Backpakers qu'ils avaient réservé, en dehors de la ville, sur les hauteurs des collines, au milieu des moutons. Chouette ce backpackers, dôté de petites chambres ressemblant plus à un chalet de ...

We arrived at about 5pm to Te Anau, after the long day out at Milford, and were so happy when we moved into the really nice Lakefront Backpackers.  With four bunks and a little kitchen and bathroom just for that room it was really cool ...

... I had left there and had a shower. Ahhh! After 4 days of hiking it was much needed. If ever you go to Te Anau, stay at the Lakefront Lodge Backpackers. It is one of the best hostels I have stayed at yet: it has a nice small friendly feel to it but really ...

... plant or dirt or something. We continued to the Moeraki lighthouse, which is not visited by many tourists (thanks Simon - the backpackers owner - for the tip!). There we saw seals up really close, yellow-eyed penguins and even managed to photograph a ...

... We spent the next hour talking about Wilson/Stiller flicks! He was camping so I left him to it and hunted down the Te Anau backpackers, a nice lakeside hostel. Now close to Fiordland, the weather was very changeable but for the next day and a half, it ...

... . Not much to say as this was just a stopover on our way to Milford. Unfortunately there is no short way to Milford (about 5 hour drive from Queenstown) unless you fly. Stayed at the Lakefront backpackers, not that great but a nice location by the ...

... to the mirror lakes and 'chasm' (a waterfall/canyon) in the afternoon, before driving to Te Pui in the evening. Stayed in 'Bob and Michelles Backpackers'.. which was good although they both liked to talk../tell their life stories.. but it was ...

... the Fiordland, and regarded as one of the greatest walking trails in the world.    I'm staying at one of the many backpackers hostels in Te Anau, and from the hostel kitchen I can see out over the lake and, by midday, the mountains beyond. I ask ...