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Lady on a Tramp

I've just had the best shower in the entire world, because it's the first I've had in four long, sweaty days after finishing the Routeburn Track in fjordland, south New Zealand. For my first solo backpacking trip--without the guidance of a responsible adult male--I'd say it went fairly well. I...

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alli_ockinga on March 18, 2010 from Queenstown, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand!

chocolate chocolate chocolate (too much chocolate)

My last two days in Dunedin are spent just checking out the city - I explore the Settlers Museum, the Otago Museum - which has a great exhibition dedicated to Maori culture, with a reconstructed Marae (meeting House),and lots of carvings, weaponry carved from pounamau (greenstone/jade) and...

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LizIsHere on March 17, 2010 from Dunedin, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

First few days in 'Kiwi land'

After a relatively short flight to New Zealand from Sydney, we arrived in a cold rainy Christchurch. It felt very much like England, or perhaps a typical Swedish summer day… The rain poured down as we took a shuttle into the city centre and our hotel. As we now had reached our ‘end...

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Victoria & Robert on March 15, 2010 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: The rest of the world

The most Scottish town outside Scotland... and penguins!

The journey to Dunedin is pretty spectacular - river gorges, valleys, and land stretching to the horizon of mountains, almost uninhabited except for white buildings dotted here and there. Dunedin is billed as the most Scottish city outside of Scotland - Dunedin is actually Gaelic for...

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LizIsHere on March 14, 2010 from Dunedin, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

update

I said goodbye to Franz Josef and the treehouses a couple days ago. FJ is located on the west coast of the south island, and is known for being generally rugged and home to lots of what we might call "characters." I did in fact find this to be the case. It was a good time, but now it's back to...

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alli_ockinga on March 12, 2010 from Queenstown, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand!

Off the Ice and Hopefully Into the Wild.

Antarctica seems but a dream. While some were having a hard time adjusting to civilization, life is back to normal for me. The fact that I lived at the South Pole for three months is what I can't believe. I feel happy I stayed at McMurdo for an extra month, but was also ready to leave when when...

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JCinTheSouthPole on March 10, 2010 from Queenstown, New Zealand

from the travel blog: South Pole

Auckland to Tauranga

Hello readers, apologies for the slight delay, yes, we are know safely in New Zealand. So, what have we being doing or, as Polly would saw WUBU2... Had a trouble free flight from Australia although Em was particularly annoyed that she didnt get to watch all of the film-they turned the...

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Tim and Em on March 10, 2010 from Auckland, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Round half the world!

Te Anau / Milford Sound

After a stopover in Te Anau, where I'm so exhausted I mainly sleep on the very comfy bed at Rosies Homestay (although I did visit the bird wildlife centre, which the DOC manage - there are keas and parakeets and other birds, in a clearing on the site of the lovely lake, which was interesting....

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LizIsHere on March 9, 2010 from Milford Sound, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

Jump off things! Jump out of things! Now now now!!!

It was boiling when I left Wanaka for Queenstown today, I spent the time waiting for the bus devouring ice-cream and getting slightly sunstroked by the lake (the bus was late). My hostel in Queenstown is the Last Resort, a tiny hostel with only 18 beds, just off Shotover Road -the main road...

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LizIsHere on March 8, 2010 from Queenstown, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

Canyoning

I went canyoning today and it was awesome! That could be a succinct and apt blog entry, but anyway... For $225 I got the pleasure of a thirty-minute drive in a rickety van along an unsealed road (complete with flocks of suicidal sheep), with three other travellers (two Aussie guys and a...

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LizIsHere on March 6, 2010 from Wanaka, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

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