New Zealand

september - oktober 2015

Een 19-daags avontuur van Diana Meer informatie

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- 22 sep. 2015 09:00
- ☀️ 8 °C
- Hoogte: 85 m
- Nieuw-Zeeland Waikato Waipa District Kihikihi -38.0377, 175.345438°2’16” S 175°20’43” E
Dag 7
Mitai (Maori) Culture Experience
22 september 2015, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
Went to hear the story of the Mitai Maori people. The host, John, was an amazing orator and was able to say "chocolate cake" in all of the 16 languages represented by the guests. :)
They put on a traditional song and dance show. The war dance was the best with lots of shouting and sticking out their tongues.
Afterwards, we ate a Hangi meal (complete with stuffing for the Brits) of chicken, lamb and lots of potatoes!Meer informatie
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- 22 sep. 2015 09:35
- ☀️ 29 °C
- Hoogte: 69 m
- Nieuw-Zeeland Waikato Waitomo District Waitomo Caves Kapongaru -38.26384, 175.1257338°15’50” S 175°7’33” E
Dag 7
Waitomo Glow worm Caves
22 september 2015, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Going tubing thru a cave of glow worms! Hurray for wet suits!
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- 22 sep. 2015 14:27
- ☀️ 13 °C
- Hoogte: 165 m
- Nieuw-Zeeland Waikato Matamata-Piako District Hobbiton Movie Set -37.87166, 175.6828937°52’18” S 175°40’58” E
Dag 7
Hobbiton
22 september 2015, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
Where the (outdoor scenes of) Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies were filmed. Short folks!
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- 24 sep. 2015 12:51
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Hoogte: 9 m
- Nieuw-Zeeland Auckland Te Awapuia Bay -37.52391, 177.1911937°31’26” S 177°11’28” E
Dag 9
White Island
24 september 2015, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Active volcano! Complete with boiling mud pools, steam, and lots of sulfur!
Random: we ran into my high school Geometry/Calculus teacher on the boat! One of my favorite teachers, I was shocked he remembered me ("You would get 96% on a test and be devastated. You always had to do everything perfectly." - nothing has changed!). Wonderfully serendipitous, it was great to catch up!Meer informatie
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- 26 sep. 2015 13:27
- ⛅ 29 °C
- Hoogte: 347 m
- Nieuw-Zeeland Waikato Taupo District Wairakei Huka Falls -38.64871, 176.0938°38’55” S 176°5’24” E
Dag 11
Huka Falls
26 september 2015, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Supposedly New Zealand's most-visited waterfall and it is quite spectacular! The water is crystal blue and rages through the chasm.
We walked about an hour and a half from our hostel to reach the falls, following the river on a lovely hiking trail. There were huge trees throughout the forest and they grew in very strange ways. Some had branches that seemed to start off normally enough, but somewhere down the road they got lazy and drooped back down to the forest floor.
A picnic on our way back from the falls made a great end to the trek.Meer informatie
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- 26 sep. 2015 14:51
- ☀️ 12 °C
- Hoogte: 364 m
- Nieuw-Zeeland Waikato Taupo -38.6851, 176.0693738°41’6” S 176°4’10” E
Dag 11
Gypsy Fair?
26 september 2015, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Yep, right in the middle of Taupo. A traveling gypsy fair. Complete with: donkeys, face painting, banjo-playing folk singer, fried food, palm reading, body piercer, and playground toys randomly strewn across the lawn. Katy managed to get the stilts walking, Kristen destroyed Dom in tennis-style tether ball, Kristina found a skip-it, and I almost killed myself on some see-saw balancing contraption.
So. Incredibly. Random.Meer informatie
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- 26 sep. 2015 16:50
- ☀️ 12 °C
- Hoogte: 361 m
- Nieuw-Zeeland Waikato Taupo -38.6915, 176.0720838°41’29” S 176°4’19” E
Dag 11
Hole in One Challenge
26 september 2015, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Think you're a great golfer? Try hitting a golf ball off a gusty pier toward a floating platform. They average a hole in one once every two weeks!
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- 27 sep. 2015 08:35
- ☀️ 13 °C
- Hoogte: 8 m
- Nieuw-Zeeland Wellington Wellington City Te Aro Wellington Port -41.29005, 174.7806941°17’24” S 174°46’50” E
Dag 12
Wellington
27 september 2015, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
Ate "breakfast" at Fidel's Cafe on Cuba street then hit up the Te Papa museum - New Zealand's best and most popular (and free!). Katy took us to a cult beer bar and walked us thru some tasters, then Dom, Kristina, Aaron and I went to a sushi restaurant complete with sushi train! It looked super sketchy but ended up being delicious!Meer informatie
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- 28 sep. 2015 15:03
- ☀️ 14 °C
- Hoogte: 329 m
- Nieuw-Zeeland Otago Queenstown -45.03112, 168.6626445°1’52” S 168°39’46” E
Dag 13
Welcome to Queenstown!
28 september 2015, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Just the view off the plane was incredible! Though the airport crew was not pleased with my picture-taking skills...
Showed up at our hostel and - surprise! Fire trucks, alarms, and sexy firemen.
A gorgeous evening for bungee jumping; Kris, Kristen, Jens, Katy, Kristina and Aaron all took the plunge! Kristina's was the best to watch - the operators basket-tossed her into the air!Meer informatie
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- 29 sep. 2015 08:30
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Hoogte: 267 m
- Nieuw-Zeeland Southland Southland District Milford Sound Freshwater Basin -44.67158, 167.9256244°40’18” S 167°55’32” E
Dag 14
Milford Sound
29 september 2015, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Took a cruise through Milford Sound. Carved out by a glacier, the U-shaped valley has mountain walls that plunge straight into the frigid water. We lucked out with fantastic, sunny weather, but on a rainy day the rocky walls turn into hundreds of waterfalls. That sight must be spectacular!
The bus ride from Queenstown to the sounds took around six hours roundtrip, but never fear - the most ridiculous bus driver ever is here!
Bus driver Carlyn (sp?) spent the first hour and a half telling us the intimate details of his life story. From before his birth, when his unwed mother was "sent away" for being pregnant, to when he was 21 and met his parents for the first time, and on and on and on... He was once recorded saying "um" 96 times in half an hour, managed to leave two passengers behind at a photo-op stop, drove the coach bus into a tiny dirt forest road (not part of our itinerary), coordinated a musical quiz game using songs on his ipod whilst simultaneously driving the coach along narrow, windy, cliff-sheer mountain roads ("um, let me um, drive the bus here so I um don't drive it off the road"), and took more than one stab at the Indian family on the coach ("um I'm gonna um put in a movie for you if I can um figure out the bloody DVD player. It's um called um the Fastest Indian and um it's not about um a boy from Mumbai..."). Needless to say, it was an endlessly entertaining adventure.Meer informatie
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