Blogs from Wanaka, Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 4

Nedela - 4.9. Christchurch again - vyborne miesto na doplnenie zasob, ci uz potravinovych alebo vystrojovych. A samozrejme to znamena aj skvely cas straveny s rodakmi - najskor obed s Kuzim a Karou v Asian Food Courte (tu sme sa dozvedeli ze stiplave jedla vymrstuju deti z mamkinho lona :)) a potom krasna prechadzka po plazi v ChCh. ...este musime Christchurch viac poobjavovat... Pondelok - 5.9. Nabaleni potravinami (zaberaju takmer cele zadne sedadla) sa vydavame smerom k Mount Cooku - najvyssi vrch NZ obklopeny mnohymi ladovcami. Po predoslych skusenostiach usudzujeme, ze je to najvhodnejsie miesto na skialp (kedze zima je tu tento rok v nizsich polohach velmi skupa na sneh). Cestou sa zastavujeme v Peel Foreste, co je nejake odlahle miesto po ceste do turisticky znameho Quenstownu. Tu vyrazame na kratku 3-hodinovu prechadzku, ktora nam trva ... read more

I left Chirstchurch this morning and drove south for the All Blacks game. I decided to take a longer, inland route so I could see the lakes and go to Wanaka and Queenstown. I was very happy that I did that........... read more

- FOOD: A scrummy Indian Birthday treat meal - AREA: Gorgeous Wanaka with it's gorgeous lake and gorgeous mountains. Puzzling World to do your head in. Difficult drive to Queenstown. Ghost town of Te Anau. - PEOPLE: Snow boarders everywhere. Miserable staff in Te Anau (a first for NZ) - WEATHER: Sun for us in Wanaka, rain for us in Queenstown. Aug 15th: Lou stayed in a very nice ski lodge type hostel called the Purple Cow - it has a good reputation of being one of the best places to stay in and rightfully so. She had a room in an apartment with it's own kitchen, bathroom and lounge area. Her flat mates were 5 Japanese snow board queens who had been there about 2 months! We drove Lou up the mountain to the ski ... read more

It's 3 weeks into the term now, and we've already been up to mischief. There's been rained out overnight tramp on the freezing west coast, a trip to Dunedin to help with our future career choices, a rock climbing comp and just general crazy behaviour!... read more

Apologies for the delay in updating - have been on the move for a while now and am getting behind. May have to do this in stages but here's the latest: Taupo - River Valley Because the weather was not so good on my third day in Taupo the walk I was supposed to go on was canceled and I had to hang around until the following day. Not such a bad thing - I caught up on some laundry and sleeping which were both sorely needed. The Tongariro Crossing is one of the country's 5 Great Walks, and the only one in the North Island; it came highly recommended, hence the decision to stay an extra two days rather than head off straight away. It is in the Tongariro National Park, about 2 hours drive ... read more