6 Wochen Neuseeland

The last 5 days in New Zealand... On day 36, one day after the boat tour on Milford Sound, we started towards Dunedin. In Te Anau, we visited an exhibition, which was advertised...

Nach der Wanderung hatten wir einen vollen Tag zum Relaxen eingeplant, und das am Milford Sound. Was ein Sound ist...? Laut Wikipedia ist dies ein Meeresarm, welcher größer als...

Our next and unfortunately last hike was supposed to take us through the Fiordland National Park in the southwest of the South Island, the largest national park in New Zealand...

Rain? No problem! On today's drive along the southern part of the West Coast from the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers to Lake Matheson and down to Haast, it poured like buckets....

We had booked a heli-hike tour for March 26th, and it was supposed to start at 12pm. It was already quite rainy in Okarito in the morning, but we still had hope that the weather...

Today we made our way from Greymouth to Okarito, a small village on the Tasmanian coast, located 20 km away from the Franz Josef Glacier. In Kumara, on the first day of our bike...

On Day 26 (March 22nd), after having a coffee at Ali's eating&drinking and a short visit to the nearby art gallery at the official starting point of the West Coast...

Action was on the agenda again on day 24! The day before, we had signed up for wild water rafting on the Buller River. The meeting point was at 10am, which we reached after an...

Day 20. After the fascinating Heaphy Walk, we continued hiking without much of a break. At 9 am, Yvonne, our guide for the next 5 hours, picked us up for a tour of the privately...

Janina and Jörg taking a break Alley in the rainforest Today we finally started our second Great Walk, the Heaphy Track, which is the longest at 78km! After finishing the...

After a short stay in a garden cottage as accommodation, we started today on 11.3. for the boat tour along the coast of Abel Tasman National Park, booked at abeltasmancharters....

Today, the owner of Harbour Heights brought us to the Avis station at Picton Harbour after a very relaxing night. He drove us in his socks with his dog (a Boxer, in the back of...

Our first mountain bike tour started at 7:15 a.m., quite early! Quick breakfast, quickly to the bike rental (Marlborough Sounds Adventures, recommended), got the bikes, and then...

Today we took the ferry from Wellington to Picton. We slept in, took a taxi to the ferry terminal in stormy, rainy weather. The taxi driver mentioned that this weather was...

The day started with a fabulous breakfast at 'prefab' in the city center of Wellington. Before that, we returned our rental car, which had about 1300 km more on the odometer...

Today we had to leave the beautiful accommodation in Taupo... and Taupo itself as well. But before that, we visited the Huka Falls. We have never seen such rapid rapids before!...

The Artist's Palette What day is it today actually? After the hike, we had lost track of which day of the week it was. But the phone knew: Today is Sunday, March 4th! And...

Us at Te Arawhata near the Emerald Lakes Today we started our first big hike! Full of anticipation, we enjoyed the delicious breakfast from Julie and Wayne and the...

Stylish sea view Today the weather was cloudy with sunny intervals, perfect for visiting Cathedral Cove in the far north of the Coromandel Peninsula. For...

Tui observation The third day started very rainy. So we tried to compensate for our jet lag by sleeping, and continued writing the blog :))) Around noon, the weather...

Drive through the mountains

First of all: The 16 1/2 hour flight from Dubai to the approximately 14000 km away Auckland was less stressful than expected. Fortunately, it ended up being just under 15 hours...

Am 8.3. (genau um 7:15h) geht es dann von Picton mit einem Wassertaxi zum Startpunkt des Queen Charlotte Tracks, unserer ersten Mountainbike-Tour! 70 km mit einer Übernachtung....

Vormittags am 25. Februar werden wir in Auckland ankommen (mega freu!). Sightseeing ist geplant, z.B. ist der Skytower empfohlen worden. Am Montag geht es dann in Richtung...