Last night was sadly our last night in New Zealand. Our flight to Sydney is not until 4pm, so we spent the morning exploring around Christchurch. Despite the devastation wreaked by the earthquakes and aftershocks, this is a vibrant city
In the interests of experiencing everything about New Zealand, I managed on the drive from Mount Cook to Christchurch to meet the Kiwi police. As with everyone here, they were very friendly, even when issuing me with a speeding ticket!
Icebergs …. Turns out you don’t have to go to Antarctica to see them, you can see them in Mount Cook National Park. The process of ice parting company with the glacier is called calving and this happens naturally all
We are now coming close to finishing our loop of South Island, but before we head back to Christchurch, we are making a slight detour to Mount Cook Village in the Southern Alps. The village is in the Aoraki/Mount Cook
Sadly it was time to leave Te Anau this morning. we have been here four days and got to know the town well. With trips to Doubtful Sound, Milford Sound and a drive to the south coast, we have made
The Maori name for Milford Sound is Piopiotahi. This seems a distinct improvement on the original name which was given by Captain John Grono who discovered it in 1812. He named it Milford Haven after his homeland in Wales. This
The forecast today was not a classic one – once again it was one of the 200 rain days they get down here, so we decided to go for a drive. On the recommendation of the B&B hosts, we took
Fiordland is by far the largest of New Zealand’s fourteen national parks at 4,868 square miles. It is also by far the most inaccessible. It occupies the whole south western corner of New Zealand and there is just one main
Today we went to see fungus gnats. This may not, on the face of it sound like a scintillating day, but … if I described them as glowworms, then it might sound more appealing. Actually glowworms are the larval stage
Te Anau is our next destination and is often considered the walking capital of New Zealand. Many of the iconic walking tracks – the Kepler Track, the Milford Track and the Routeburn Track. However, given that these take anything between