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 three and five days to do, there is no danger of us being found on them. We do, however, have four days in Te Anau, so we...
Our route is taking us inexorably south but to get to Fiordland in the south we have to head southeast for a while as there is a range of mountains in the way. Our next stop is therefore Wanaka – a township on the south shore of Lake Wanaka. On our way we stopped for a couple of walks. The first took us to Roaring Billy Falls. There was no explanation as to who...