Tag: Tour
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Tunnel beach and Elm wildlife tour
I was not sure what else I preferred to do in Dunedin. I could go the more expensive route and visit the castle and go with the railway. Or I could go with the somewhat less expensive tour and visit tunnel beach and some wildlife. In the end I decided that I can still walk…
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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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Evening cruise on Lake Taupo
One of the less expensive things you can do in the Taupo area is an evening cruise up to some Maori rock carvings. A little bit disappointing was the choice of the vessel as we went out on a motor boat and not the sailing ship right next to it. But there was pizza included.…
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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…
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A visit to Hobbiton
After we had a cider in the local pub and a good nights sleep in a nice lodge the next planned stop was Hobbiton. Or at least the place where the Hobbiton scenes of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit where filmed. The first contract stated that the film crews had to revert…
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Down down into the hole we go
Today was a pay or get bored kind of day. The place we went to was in the middle of nowhere and the reason we went there are some caves that are inhabited by glowworms. Those cannibalistic maggots have silk strings hanging from them and produce bioluminescence as a byproduct of their digestion. The light…
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Hole in the rock and dolphin cruise
One of the touristic attractions of Paihia is the Hole in the rock. To get there you can either take a helicopter ride or you book a boat trip through the Bay of Islands with its 144 islands. With the latter you get to see more of the little islands and you have a good…
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Whalewatching second try
Because we didn’t get to see any real whale action when I went the first time I got a call from the skipper the next day. He invited me to go out with again. Free of charge. Unfortunately we had already booked the Sapiranga tour for that day so I went a day later. The…
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Sapiranga and a snake
One of the tours you can book in Praia do Forte is marketed as a fun adventure with kayaking and ziplining. What they don’t advertise that much is that the whole event is located in a private nature reserve where they try to rebuild the atlantic rainforest. Similar to what it had been before the…
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Whalewatching in Praia de Forte
One of the “new” ways to make money is by going out to take tourists whalewatching instead of hunting them. To make the whole trip not just about the tourists they always take some researchers on board so at least some scientific value can be gained. The whole enterprise is not without side effects though…