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Published: April 20th 2005
Leaving the south we spent a couple of days driving back up into the Southern Alps through some spectacular mountain passes. We seemed to stop every twenty minutes at viewpoints or to hike up to waterfalls, each more impressive that the previous but the highlight was hiking up to the terminal face of the
Fox Glacier as well as seeing
Franz Josef Glacier from "Sentinal Rock" (well worth the climb).
Leaving the Alps we visited several goldmining towns (Okarito, Ross, Hokitika) and the splendidly reconstructed "Shantytown" (a collection of old buildings brought together to form a tourist attraction and historical monument). There we were also pleased to see our first Weka (a NZ ground bird).
On saturday, we stopped at the "Pancake Rocks" at
Punakaiki , walked on the cliffs at
Cape Foulwind and stopped for ginger beer in
Murchison .
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