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两件事 [Lake Wanaka]

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 | By ying | Views [4423]

旅行进入第三周，一切都很顺利（除了这几天的天气不尽人意）。昨天驾车从Lake Tekapo来到Lake Wanaka，在这里我们待了两天，做了两件有意义的事。第一件：学手动开车下午趁镇上没什么车，路很空，Tom的妹妹Julia决定试试教我们开手动车。这是我第一次试开手动车，一开始当然少不了熄火，我的主要问题是停下再启动前忘了把档挂回一档，这样再启动时油门不够就熄火了。还有，启动时不是很稳，有时要抖几下，估计是离合器送得太快，还有待改进。不过最要命的是，新西兰是左边驾驶的，可我老改不过来，转弯时好几次开上对面的道，还好没车，要不我们大家都得一命呼呼去了，这点比较值得担心！ ... Read more >

Letting the New Zealand Light Shine In

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 | By lauren_watson | Views [4174] | Comments [6]

One of the things that makes New Zealand different from home is the light. It’s the way the sun shines, the shadows it casts, the different hues in the sky it creates. I walk to work in the morning and the sun is rising, shining brightly on Mt. Cecil ... Read more >

Tags: new zealand, queenstown

Waitomo Caves

Wed, 2 Apr 2008 | By abelaine | Views [3440]

About 170kms south west is Waitomo Caves our next major stop. Here we took a 5 hour caving tour of the famous glow worm caves. "Rap Raft and Cave" is the company which was the cheapest and most value for money at $125. The others are above ... Read more >

South Island: Glaciers, free falling, and the most epic hike of all time

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 | By blake_harvey | Views [1145]

The next day was for hiking up to the glaciers. There are two of them, Fox Glacier and Franz Josef. You can hike up to a viewpoint for both, but there's really nothing stopping you from waltzing all the way up to the terminal face (where the ice is) ... Read more >

Milford Sound and leaving the South Island

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 | By john_hockley | Views [971]

After leaving Queenstown we headed to Te Anau, picking up yet more hitch-hikers on the way (stockpiling our good karma!) Te Anau is the start of the scenic drive to Milford Sound, and is considered one of the best drives in the world. After a brief stop ... Read more >

Abel Tasman National Park Map

Fri, 1 Jan 2010 | By ying | Views [892]

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Les délices de Franz Josef...

Sun, 31 Jan 2016 | By travelerdiaryinusa | Views [668]

Pour cette nouvelle année on va commencer par un article assez drôle (désolé de ne pas avoir écrit plus tôt, mais on a été assez occupé). Le mois de Janvier touche à sa fin, le 6 fé... Read more >

Tags: #nouvellezélande #2mois #vivrecommeunlocal #franz

North Island, New Zealand

Fri, 2 Jan 2004 | By vagrant | Views [579]

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After Fat Cat

Mon, 18 Nov 2013 | By jn1613 | Views [530]

Today I left Fat Cat and arrived at my first WWOOFing house just south of Thames. Part of my main intention for this trip, was to build relationships and create good connections, I covered that in two days at Fat Cat. It's hard to even know where ... Read more >

Never say never.....

Tue, 8 Apr 2014 | By j_m_j | Views [477] | Comments [4]

I have spent the last 7 days in Queenstown and I have to say, it has been a ton of fun. I hopped of with Hanni (Italian) and spent most of the days hanging out with her until she left and two other girls Joanne (Irish) and Claire (Brit) came into town.... Read more >

A Coastal Paradise

Mon, 12 May 2014 | By letrishamouton | Views [296]

When people travel to New Zealand they end up in the big towns, Auckland and Hamilton, but on the North Island there is a coastal town rich with history, diversity and a walkway which offers quiet and peaceful thinking. New Plymouth is a coastal ... Read more >

Tags: beaches, lights, new plymouth, new zealand, womad

The Road of life

Thu, 17 Apr 2014 | By | Views [187] | Scholarship Entry

My years at high school shapes me into the individual I wanted to be. At the start I was no one but a 13 year old in a neat and tidy uniform that was too neat. “Turd” is what the older years called the first years. I was sad lonely girl who dreams big ... Read more >

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