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- Gisborne Peninsula, Part IThe morning and early afternoon saw glorious beaches - pity it was too windy to fully enjoy them! Had lunch on a particularly isolated beach which was beautiful but the wind was just too strong for an afternoon dip :-( Posted by alvenables in Our travels down under and beyond...... | Jan 14, 2012
- QueenstownAfter surviving a night in Christchurch without having to experience an earthquake we hopped on an early flight to Queenstown. It's a short 1 hour flight from Christchurch. As we approached Queenstown we flew over New Zealand's Southern Posted by Sikhamsay in My Kiwi Trip | Jan 14, 2012
- ChristchurchWe travelled further south of Kaikoura to the city of Christchurch. It's about a 3 hour bus ride along the eastern coast of New Zealand's south island. The road meanders along miles of amazing coastline. We will Posted by Sikhamsay in My Kiwi Trip | Jan 13, 2012
- Lost in ParadiseI left Chris, Rich and Dylan with a heavy heart and got on my way to the Abel Tasman National Park. I had initially planned to spend 4 nights in the park, but my reservation of campsites did not go Posted by Phlep in A nomad's heart | Jan 13, 2012
- Apologies dear readerFor the many, many spelling mistakes and odd words in the blogs - we've had no laptop since week as the macbook died and I've been doing them all on my iphone which has been pretty tricky - particularly due Posted by KtandMark in Kt and Mark do stuff in places and that | Jan 13, 2012
- New Zealand 2009-2010//photos.travellerspoint.com/446651/IMG_3958.jpg] [img=http://pho Posted by Anahera in Sarah is travelling the world... | Jan 13, 2012
- Art Deco NapierDecided to spend the morning checking out Napier. Here comes your history lesson for the day! Napier was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake on 3 February 1931 (7.9 on the Richter scale) and was largely re-built in the Posted by alvenables in Our travels down under and beyond...... | Jan 12, 2012
- Kiwi Sighting!We spent five nights at the Stewart Island Backpackers. This was a cultural and communal experience. We had two sparse rooms for the five us, clean with linens. Bathrooms and kitchen were shared. All of our Posted by kennedyhermann in New Zealand 2012 | Jan 11, 2012
- South to NorthLeft the South with heavy hearts. Caught morning ferry to 'Windy Welly' and, yes, it is VERY windy! Whilst on the ferry we decided to change our North Island itinerary, taking a totally flexible approach to the remainder of our Posted by alvenables in Our travels down under and beyond...... | Jan 11, 2012
- happy new year Nelson and the Abel Tasman National Park Fםr our last days in New Zealand we planned to walk a part of the trail in the Abel Tasman park נut the weather gods intervened and gave us rain... lots of rain! So Posted by EvaMaaikeIzhar in Going South | Jan 11, 2012
- North IslandHello dear friends! Our last days in New Zealand went by so fast, I hardly had time to update the blog and the pictures. After a lovely Indian christmas meal in thermally active Rotorua, we fell asleep in our tiny outdated Posted by EvaMaaikeIzhar in Going South | Jan 11, 2012
- RotoruaFinally some sun!!! Cousin Annette was giving us a guided tour around Rotorua. Rotorua is the most thermal active area in NZ and the air was constantly filled with a smell of sulfur. Geysers, boiling mud holes, acid pools in amazing colors. [img=htt Posted by mariahenke in New Zealand & Australia 2012 | Jan 11, 2012
- Travel to RotoruaWoke up early to check out from Base backpacker and get the rented car. Of course the rental company managed to miss the GPS but at least the car got four wheels so what the heck. The highway ended shortly after Auckland Posted by mariahenke in New Zealand & Australia 2012 | Jan 11, 2012
- Wine tasting in MarlboroughHad a lazy start to the day - the best! We took a wine tour of the Marlborough region this afternoon and seemed to be on a mission to drink the country dry! Despite our best efforts we failed Posted by alvenables in Our travels down under and beyond...... | Jan 10, 2012
- Auckland day 2Auckland day 2 was suppose to contain Sky city tower with jumping and viewing. Henke slept the whole day through but Maria took a long walk through Albert Park and up to Parnell Village that was a beatufyl village with special Posted by mariahenke in New Zealand & Australia 2012 | Jan 10, 2012
- No whales and dolphins but loads of seals!Today we had a another long journey - Hanmer Springs in the mountains behind Christchurch to Picton on the north coast of the South Island, from where we will catch the ferry to the North Island on Thursday. We called Posted by alvenables in Our travels down under and beyond...... | Jan 10, 2012
- Thermal SpringsLongish journey today through yet more mountains - we're mountained out!! Scenery however was as good as ever. We called in at Hokitika on the west coast for a browse around the numerous jade factories. Tempted to spend Posted by alvenables in Our travels down under and beyond...... | Jan 10, 2012
- Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from South IslandBlog 7 Places: Timaru, Dunedin, Queenstown, Central Otago Songs: We need new music. Getting really sick of all that we have. Books: Ali: “World without end” by Ken Follett and “The Late Hector Kipling” (Thanks for the recommendations Duncan) An Posted by borntotramp in Born to Tramp | Jan 9, 2012
- Tongariro Alpine CrossingFriday was HOT!!! As we made the journey south to Ohakune the car was displaying an outside temperature of 27 degrees. Shame that we were stuck inside the car for 5 hours! I couldn't resist a few photo Posted by bumblebum in Migrating South | Jan 8, 2012
- GlaciersBreakfasted overlooking sun drenched snow topped mountains (are you getting bored of reading this?!). As we couldn't get onto an organised tour of the glacier which would have involved walking on the glacier, we had to make do with Posted by alvenables in Our travels down under and beyond...... | Jan 8, 2012
- More lakes and mountains and a bit of coast!Woke to brilliant sunshine - what a difference a night makes! Headed further north to the glacier region taking in a bit of the coast on the Tasman Sea. Plenty of mountain and lake scenery- almost becoming blasé about it Posted by alvenables in Our travels down under and beyond...... | Jan 7, 2012
- Auckland day 1Early waking after 12 hours sleep (That was needed). We both felt strong again and ready to conquer Auckland. Eva Edwards picked us up around nine for a sightseeing. We started off to see the western part of Auckland. Due to the rain and Posted by mariahenke in New Zealand & Australia 2012 | Jan 7, 2012
- Arrived in AucklandAfter 30 hours of travel time we finally arrived in Auckland soooooooo tired. As we told you before the flight to London was delayed so the trip plan was rescheduled. First we travelled to Peking with manually written tickets, Air China was Posted by mariahenke in New Zealand & Australia 2012 | Jan 7, 2012
- Further SouthHere is an update on the last five days: As we left Queenstown we explored the wonderful alpine flowers in the Remarkable Mountains. After a long day of bus ride, ferry, bus ride we boarded the Fiordland Navigator and set Posted by kennedyhermann in New Zealand 2012 | Jan 7, 2012
- Back to Auckland for some Kiwi Hospitality...==Auckland== [img=http://photos.travellerspoint.com/314279/large_IMG_7590.jpg caption=Delia, Nate an Posted by ontarions in It's a Huge World Out There! | Jan 7, 2012
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