Tag: North Island
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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)…
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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 and – 5 mile bay road and leads to 5 mile bay. The footpath is almost always next to the lake…
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Aratiatia dam
Today was the day we wanted to do the Tongariro Crossing. Due to bad weather conditions on the mountain this got cancelled. For Isabelle this was unfortunate as her timetable did not allow for too many extra days and she had to move on. For me it just meant that I extended my stay for…
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Redwood forest and Huka Falls
Pickup time was 9:30 and the next destination was just around the corner. So we got to walk around a little bit more today. First stop was a redwood forest just outside of Rotorua. They planted it when the loggers realized that the big Kauri trees they where cutting down actually where thousands of years…
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Wai-O-Tapu and Rainbow Mountain
The trip that was pushed so I could join went first to some pools whith boiling mud and then to Lady Knox Geysir. IT has a natural eruption cycle of 18 to 72 hours. But they help nature to a more tourist friendly timetable with an erruption at a quarter past 10 every day by…