NEW ZEALAND-SOUTH ISLAND Part 1

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December 4th 2011

Published: December 5th 2011

New Zealand is like paradise on earth! Imagine every conceivable geographical and topographical phenomenon crammed into two tiny islands that look like the size of my baby toenail clippings on a world map. Unbelievable! This place has mountains, canyons, waterfalls, glaciers, fjords, rainforests, gorges, rivers, 33 million sheep (down from 80 million), geothermal hot springs, farmland, cities, wil... Read Full Entry

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Mount Cook 4

View from Hooker Valley Trail

Mount Cook 5

View from south end of Lake Pukaki

Hiking Mount Cook National Park

Mount Cook 6

Russel Lupen Flowers

These wild flowers are found in abundance naturally throughout the South Island. Oh wow man, like really.

New Zealand Fantail

Landed on our picnic table.

New Zealand Fantail 2

Sitting on the arm of my lawnchair.

Omarama

Town we stayed in on the way to Queenstown

Lady Bird Hill Vineyard

Rugby Crazy

All Blacks - winners of the 2011 Rugby World Cup. New Zealand goes WILD!!!!

Queenstown 1

Commercial Tourist Town

Queenstown 2

Queenstown 3

Queenstown 4

The "Remarkables" mountain range in the background.

Queenstown 5

The "Niagara Falls" of New Zealand

Half Moon over Queenstown

South Island Spleandour

Tasman Glacier

5th December 2011

DPC
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Question
Looking at the colour of the water, I was wondering where's the nuclear reactor in the picture?

5th December 2011

DPC
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What time is it in NZ?
Rush hour... Kiwi style.

5th December 2011

DPC
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What a stunna, hey!
He's thinking... "I'm a sight betta lookin' then a bleedin' Kiwi behd."

5th December 2011

sid and ilene
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did I tell you???
You said it all - a plethora of beauty - hard to remember australia right?? enjoy this leg of the journey - my guess is when you get to Tahiti you will want to eat well (like we did in Singapore) - drink some wine while you are there - will help to digest yucky food ......enjoy the hot springs - bring disposable suits - you will want to leave it there (along with your suitcase!) Rotaruo stinks, but we loved it!

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