Around the the world – step by step
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Fuller River and Pancacke rocks
This time the morning was filled with activities for all those that wanted to spend some more money. I for my part had decided that I wanted to go on a Jetboat and try how it feels like to do some 360 degree spins on a river. So we stored our stuff on the big…
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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 spot. Bigger problem though if you don’t fess up, the bus is full and she starts just to find out that…
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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 the trip the captain informed us that the boat had trouble with the hydraulics working the gangway. So some of the…
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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 up to much apart from getting some sun. So we went on. At noon we had a stop to do some…
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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 our big bags and ourselfes onto the boat. The 3.5 hour trip over was windy but the seas calm. And once…
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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 pretty steep and probably meant more for mountain bikers going down instead of going up. On the top you get a…
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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 was explecitely told that I could take pictures. The makeup was very nice and the space huge. Ok, what do you…
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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 names of the businesses. Like “consta-bull-ary” for the police station. After that it was on to Wellington. The capital of New…
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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 some exercise on our trip to River Valley. River Valley is a farmstay in the middle of nowhere with some nice…
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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 people per day. All you need then is someone to pick you up at the end (and maybe to the beginning)…