I Stop Hating New Zealand

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After 10 horrible days I am actually starting to enjoy New Zealand, now being on the South Island and having been virtually spared from rain so far. But just when it starts to get good I am about to leave. Tomorrow I am heading to Christchurch where I will board the plane to Hawaii on Sunday afternoon. Considering my next travel stop I am not too sad though.

Anyways since coming to the South Island on Saturday my travels have been taking me west towards Abel Tasman National Park and then going southwest towards Franz Josef and Fox Glacier just about midway through the island on the west coast. Originally my travel would have been taking me further south to Queenstown but since the weather was decent and facing the prospect of having to drive 2 extra days I decided to relax on the west coast in the small town of Hokitika. New Zealand is bigger than I thought and 2.5 weeks is not nearly enough to do one island let alone two.

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Photos

Fruit Orchard
The top of the South Island (Malborough and Nelson) gets a lot of sun hours. You can drive for hours and see orchards next to more orchards.

FJG Ice Climbing
You can actually climb on the glacier. I didn't.

Comments

[Li Min]

nice picture
Nice pictures. I heard "Ring" was filmed in Zealand. It seems a lot of gravel on the land, I need a good shoe.