Category: New Zealand
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Queenstown, The Remarkables and Wanaka
After our peaceful stop in Te Anau, we moved on to Queenstown. A bustling ski resort town and home to the adrenaline junky. If you were looking for fast-paced thrills, here was the place to do it. They had bungee jumps into canyons, gorge swings, sky dives, white-water rafting, you name it. They’d even throw…
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Franz Josef, failed glaciers and drives to remember
There was a single highway between Wanaka and Franz Josef, the Great West Coast Road. The drive took us up mountains and zigzagging downhill, high above the west coast beaches and along the edges of vast lakes. And even in some stretches it felt as though we were driving through the jungle, with thick rainforest…
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Exploring Fiordland in Te Anau and Milford Sound
We drove across country from Dunedin down to Te Anau, cutting out the southern most tip of the South Island. The land changed from farmer’s fields filled with cows and red deer to mountain ranges and Great Lakes. This was our first sight of mountains up close in New Zealand. The roads were a pleasure,…
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Road Trip Take Two; NZ’s South Island
Nature, stunning scenery and awe-inspiring wildlife is what awaits you in the second half of Aotearoa. When people dream of a far-off paradise on the other side of the world, this just might be the place they’re thinking of.. Although becoming progressively more developed in recent years, New Zealand has managed to stay true to…
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Roadtripping New Zealand’s North Island
From Sydney it was time to say g’day to Australia and a month of great memories. We were sad to leave such a wild country, in every sense of the word. And will certainly be back again if fate would have it. But onto our next adventure; touring the North Island of New Zealand in…