Peter on June 20th, 2009

So here come the last photos from New Zealand.
Dunedin – We saw penguins, seals and albatrosses (only the baby ones, but they were still bigger than any bird i have ever seen!). The penguins were great! They swim individually into the beach, have a quick look around for sea lions (who eat them) and then [...]

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Peter on June 16th, 2009

Just a very short entry. We visited Queenstown and Wanaka recently. In Queenstown we had another go at Luging, and saw some great views of the lake and played the most amazing mini golf ever! In Wanaka we went to Puzzle World where we got lost in the infuriating maze as well as visiting a [...]

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Peter on June 9th, 2009

Visiting the Franz Joseph Glacier was definitely one of the highlights of the whole travels! We were extremely fortunate that we had a day without a cloud in the sky, meaning that we could visit the glacier via a HeliHike rather than a walk from the bottom. A HeliHike means a helicopter ride up and [...]

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Peter on June 6th, 2009

For the first time in a long time we haven’t been taking many pictures! It started in the Glow Worm Caves (which were amazing!!) where you were not allowed to take photos. Then we took the overlander train (9 hours) to Wellington. 2 Days in Welly was followed by an exciting ferry ride over to [...]

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Peter on May 31st, 2009

We only ended up spending 2 days in Rotorua, but we managed to squeeze a fair amount into them. Tuesday morning we spent on the “luge”. It was much more fun than we anticipated with Friedi fairly flying down the slope by our 5th go! Then a quick trip to look at some Kiwis (the [...]

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