Nelson Lakes to Westport
New driver – Lisa. For some reason she had two more passengers on board than on the manifest. Usually not that big of a problem: Fess up and she adds you on on the...
Cyril on tour Around the world on the other side
Discovering Abel Tasman
Today was a bit of tramping on the menu. But first I went with one of the sea shuttles all the way up the national park past two different sea lion colonies. Halfway through...
Lock, Stock and two smoking paddles
That’s the name of the kayaking your I went on today. It was a whole day of kayaking in the waters in front of the Abel Tasman national park. The sea lions where not...
From the north island to the south island
New driver again and a trip with the ferry from Wellington to Picton in between the bus routes. The first part was just from the hostel down to the ferry where we checked in...
Wellington from the top and at night
As I always like to have a look down into towns I went up Mount Victoria. The way up is quite easy to find as there are actually a few. Some of them are...
Wellington
Last night was late opening in “Te Papa” – the national museum. So I had to have a look and even went to the (special) “The great war” exhibition depicting Gallipoli. Going in I...
A village called “Bulls”
Today was more of a move the people from point A to point B kind of trip. Our only memorable stop was in Bulls. A small town that incorporated its name into the unofficial...
Whakapapa (Fakapapa) and River Valley
First stop today was at The Chalet a high end resort. Which we of course did not go into. Instead we did a two hour walk past a nice waterfall to get at least...
Tongariro Crossing
This is one of New Zealand’s famous walks. It does only take a day so in summer you do it on your own. Well as on your own as you can be with 3000...
5 mile bay
Today I said goodbye to my travel companion and went for the other walk Taupo had to offer. The great lake walkway. This one passes 2 mile bay, 3 mile bay, 4 mile bay...
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