Travelogues Punakaiki

My synapses are focused on food and after a visit to the Pancake Rocks, I had a craving for pancakes for weeks.

A coffee later and another 30 kilometers inland along the Hokitika River to enjoy the Hokitika Gorge Walk.

19.01.2015 It looks gloomy when I wake up at half past eight. Today, the 3-day-old bread and the remaining Brie have to go. I leave shortly before 10:00 am, the clouds are...

So there it was. The West Coast. The place where even New Zealanders go on vacation - the Baltic Sea of New Zealanders, so to speak. 'Untamed natural wilderness' is the 'slogan'...

Tag 39 Heute wollten wir die Westküste weiter nördlich reisen. Es war ein schöner sonniger Tag. Beim Frühstück saßen wir auf dem Campingplatz am Fox Gletscher gemütlich draußen...

Auf dem Weg zur Westküste überquerten wir den Buller River und gingen über die längste Swingbridge Neuseelands. An der Westküste sahen wir die berühmten “Pancake Rocks“,...

Tuesday 13.3.(91 km / 800 meters climbing) captivating landscape Wild sea Jungle Camping in Charlston Wednesday 14.3.(83 km/ 1000meters climbing) spectacular...

We continued along the West Coast. We drove to Westport and had a great campsite there, secluded and right on the beach. To get there, we had to fight through a lot of...

So, so... another new adventure. Today, rafting, cave and glowworms were on the program, and a few other things came up as well. We started early in the morning to Charleston, a...

Hello and let's continue, After my beautiful walk at Lake Matheson, I drove to Punakaiki. It is a small town, but has a lot to offer in terms of scenery. This place is located...

A drive along the coast, rocks and sea

30.01.20 Today we're heading to the West Coast. It's surprisingly difficult for us to leave the cozy breakfast table in the bright sunshine. However, we have a long way to go,...

Next, we continued south toward Lake Rotoiti, a beautiful crystal-clear mountain lake that somehow looked like Lake Königssee, only with fewer people. There were already a few...

ERGOS New Zealand Trip

The Pancake Rocks deserve their name. Not worth seeing for some, but even more so for me!

02/06/2017 The alarm clock rings early, as rain is forecasted from 12 o'clock, which is typical for the West Coast of the South Island, as here the masses of clouds coming from...

After a cold shower on the beach, we continued our journey from Greymouth. Although a large part of the West Coast is still closed or only accessible from one side, we were...

When we came back from the hike, it started raining. As we will later find out, the rain will accompany us for a while. We managed to hitchhike from Fox Glacier to Greymouth...

ERGOS New Zealand Trip

Today we had a full day, we woke up in the morning and got a lot of tips from a New Zealander who was selling coffee and breakfast in his little caravan. ☺️ So we went to the...

East Coast

The day started with a visit to an old gold mine, which we explored on our own with a flashlight (and fireflies) after an introduction by the enthusiastic owner (3rd...

We hope you all had a nice holiday season and a good start to the new year. We spent Christmas at the beautiful Pancake Rocks. Pancake stack-like shape of the Pancake Rocks. ...

What will the pancakes look like, I couldn't really imagine. Rocks that look like stacked pancakes. The sea was incredibly impressive with the force it hit the land. I...

Today the beautiful weather said goodbye, but for the Pancake Rocks it's not that dramatic. The formations of the rocks are simply unique, along with the impressive power of the...

Green, medium green, light green, and and and ... So many shades of green can be seen here right next to the beautiful coastal road. Almost as we saw it on Rarotonga....

Die Pancake Rocks fanden wir beide schon ziemlich cool, da können sogar die Pancakes aus dem Hotel in Singapur nicht mithalten. Wir haben die Flut extra so abgepasst, dass wir...

The next stop for us were the Pancake Rocks. An interesting landscape of crazy arranged stones.