52c. Tiki Tour - Part Three

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March 10th 2009

Published: June 3rd 2009

In March, we headed off on a 2-week holiday of NZ’s South Island. We used a 'hop on hop off' bus service called Stray Backpacker Bus NZ to get around, and our big highlights were swimming with dolphins, catching our own fish for dinner and climbing a glacier. Stops 4 to 6 : West Coast of the South Island; Brewery and glacier, nature and nurture (N) The west coast of New Zealand is known for i... Read Full Entry

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Paula & Nick Rowlands

Charmita and Olarse

Paula - Here we are fulfilling a long-held dream of travelling the planet. Through our travelblog have fun joining us along the way! Nick - these are a couple of quotations that I picked up along the way: "In German, there is a word, Kunstlerschuld, which means "artist's guilt", the emotion a painter feels over his frivolity in a world in which people work in a rut that makes them gloomy. Perhaps there is also a sort of traveler's guilt, from being self-contained, s... full info

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Lake Matheson - Day 2

South Island Scenery

Fox Glacier in the middle distance

Fox Glacier - Day 1

Fox Glacier - Day 2

"The Fox Glacier grinds its way down from the Southern Alps at a rate of one to four metres per day and while many glaciers worldwide have been retreating, Fox and Franz Josef still flow almost to sea level. This ancient glacier is nestled amid primeval rainforest, untamed yet accessible” (AA Travel Guide)

Stray Bus crossing a small bridge, South Island

We went through Haast, real remote part of the country, and crossed over a bridge called Gates of Haast.

Walk to a waterfall, South Island

Paula in a dry riverbed, South Island

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52c. Tiki Tour - Part Three

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