The West Coast, New Zealand

Travel Blogs from The West Coast (6)

Glaciers and Hot Pools, The West Coast, New Zealand travel blog
Glaciers and Hot Pools
Apr 15, 2004

... the dry mountains of Lake Wanaka, and arrived in the rain-sodden, wind-blown but very greeeeen rainforested mountains of the West Coast. Here we spent a day scrambling around on Fox Glacier - one of the spectacular glaciers that carves its way down from ...

A travel blog entry by russiatooz
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The coolest entry ever, The West Coast, New Zealand travel blog
The coolest entry ever
Oct 23, 2004

... cool being pitched up in this woman's pad for a few nights. Man, travelling rules. So we continue south, down the west coast of the south island to the Glaciers. These glaciers are super famous and a big tourist puller for New Zealand. The drive down ...

A travel blog entry by baldtel_on_tour
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Frozen Assets, Fox and Franz Josef Glacier, and The West Coast, New Zealand travel blog
Frozen Assets
Dec 6, 2005

... running these tours. No competition, so extortionate prices. I know the DoC are doing good, but I still hate them. The rest of the west coast was pretty crap. The weather was rubbish and there really wasn't much to see at all. This must be the most ...

A travel blog entry by siscri
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Stunning, The West Coast (inc Queenstown, Wanaka and Fiordlands), New Zealand travel blog
Stunning
May 21, 2005

Well the west coast is beautiful. Its so hard to drive more than 2 minutes without stopping for a photo. First day was spent mainly driving but stopping at various beaches, walks and small pretty towns. However great the scenery was the best bit however ...

A travel blog entry by billyandtrav

Forum Discussions on The West Coast (28)

South Island, New Zealand
Posted on Feb 6, 2009, 17:18:04
... time from Christchurch is 2 1/2 hours. www.kaikoura.co.nz Day 3 - Up early and away you go on a beautiful drive to the West Coast. Go south of Kaikoura on route 1 to route 70 turning right until the junction of route 7 and then th side road to Hanmer ...
South Island, New Zealand
Posted on Aug 21, 2008, 01:01:56
... time from Christchurch is 2 1/2 hours. www.kaikoura.co.nz Day 3 - Up early and away you go on a beautiful drive to the West Coast. Go south of Kaikoura on route 1 to route 70 turning right until the junction of route 7 and then th side road to Hanmer ...
A North Island Itinerary for information
Posted on Sep 3, 2009, 14:11:41
... Route One and Route 12 at Ohaeawai (or there is a short detour road after Lake Omapere). 12 takes you out to the west coast on Hokianga Harbour at Opononi and then turns south toward Dargaville. Along this route in the Waipoua Forest is the largest kauri ...
North Island Odyssey
Posted on Jul 12, 2008, 01:28:21
... Route One and Route 12 at Ohaeawai (or there is a short detour road after Lake Omapere). 12 takes you out to the west coast on Hokianga Harbour at Opononi and then turns south toward Dargaville. Along this route in the Waipoua Forest is the largest kauri ...

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