Mount Iron, New Zealand Travel Journals & Blogs

Traveler FERNWEHfütterung
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- Jan 9, 2025, 12:00 PM
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Altitude: 314 m
- New Zealand Otago Queenstown-Lakes District Wanaka Mount Iron -44.703077, 169.18575844°42’11” S 169°11’9” E
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Day 72
Roadtrip Tag 4 - Auf nach Wanaka
January 9 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Wir verließen heute das schöne Queenstown und fuhren über einen Pass nach Wanaka.

Unterwegs gab es ein paar Aussichten, tierische Begegnungen und Blumen. Kurz vor Wanaka haben wir auf einem Lavendelhof angehalten... Sehr sehr schön.Read more
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Traveler Aldi.nz?😂
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Traveler Aldi Australien 🤣
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Traveler Sehr schöne Bilder, tolle Farben 👌
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Traveler In Neuseeland hab ich noch keinen Aldi gesehen. Gibt es wohl keinen 😄
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Traveler Down Under
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- Jan 16, 2023, 3:23 PM
- ⛅ 26 °C
- Altitude: 319 m
- New Zealand Otago Queenstown-Lakes District Wanaka Mount Iron -44.694695, 169.16960744°41’41” S 169°10’11” E
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Day 81
Wanaka
January 16, 2023 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Höt semmer zwar weder meh im Bus gseh, well mer uf Queenstown👑 gfahre send, hend aber super schöni Ort atroffe ufem Wäg. Sehr schön esch Wanaka gseh! Au Delfine hemmer weder mou atroffe - guet luege im Video🐬Read more
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Traveler ech ha Delfine gseh 🐬 lg
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Traveler sehr guet
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Traveler Jessica! Das esch wie Träume! eifach nor super!
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Traveler das esch e so
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9 months Sabbatical
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- Jan 11, 2020, 10:15 PM
- 🌧 15 °C
- Altitude: 334 m
- New Zealand Otago Queenstown-Lakes District Wanaka Mount Iron -44.6955, 169.1597244°41’44” S 169°9’35” E
Day 104
Costume party and out out
January 11, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
General admin in the morning and early afternoon. Catching up on washing and emails.
We had been invited to a birthday party, none of us could really be arsed as it was themed. Hannah did an excellent job of going to town and getting a costume for us all.
Dressed up we drove to the party. Had a great time, at a house with great views.
At 9ish Cathers drove us home. The plan was to go out out, so we had a small rave to 90s dance hits before going out for more dancing at an Irish bar and a place called Cork which we had been to several times before.Read more
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9 months Sabbatical
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- Jan 10, 2020
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 318 m
- New Zealand Otago Queenstown-Lakes District Wanaka Mount Iron -44.69979, 169.1558444°41’59” S 169°9’21” E
Day 103
Back to Wanaka with a few fun stops.
January 10, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
We got up and left the campsite. We headed to Lake Matherson with the aim of getting a photo of the mountain reflected in the water. No such luck today. Too windy and too many ripples on the water. Still a nice walk though.

We started the route back to Wanaka heading South East. We stopped at one spot which Pete and Cathers knew about with a waterfall you can go under. Got into the wetsuits and walked up.
Absolutely bloody freezing water. We scrambled along up the rocks to the falls. I climbed over and went behind them. A huge mass of water thundering through. Instant brain freeze. Great fun.

After thawing out and being eaten alive again by sandflies we moved onto the blue pools. Amazing blue water and great for skimming. Which Pete and I spent about 20 mins doing.

From there we drove back to Wanaka, unloaded the truck and zonked out. Made some homemade pizzas. Looking forward to a proper bed again.Read more
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Nouvelle-Zélande 🇳🇿 🥝
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- Mar 28, 2024, 12:00 PM
- ⛅ 9 °C
- Altitude: 288 m
- New Zealand Otago Queenstown-Lakes District Wanaka Mount Iron -44.693362, 169.17933144°41’36” S 169°10’46” E
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Day 28
Freecamp et saumon
March 28, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
Deux nuits passées à ce freecamp au bord du Lac Hawea, très reposant.
+ ici ils font pas mal de saumons. On a testé un resto (The Hook) où on a le choix : soit de commander directement, soit de louer une canne à pêche, aller pêcher son saumon dans l’étang à côté et se le faire cuisiner ensuite 🍣 On s’est régalé !Read more
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Traveler Très belles assiettes bien appétissantes !!
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Traveler Alors finalement, vous avez opté pour la joie de la pêche ou la facilité du service ?? En tout cas, le saumon a une belle couleur :)
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Traveler Option 2, on avait faim 😋
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Traveler New Zealand July 2023
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- Jul 24, 2023, 12:13 PM
- ☁️ 45 °F
- Altitude: 316 m
- New Zealand Otago Queenstown-Lakes District Wanaka Mount Iron -44.699276, 169.15550244°41’57” S 169°9’20” E
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9.) Day Four in Wānaka
July 24, 2023 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 45 °F
We had a blobbing day today. We all went to the supermarket where we saw unfamiliar items. We bought honey, of course, including Manuka. 🍯🍯🍯
After lunch we split up. Murray and Liam visited a distillery and an overlook at the base ski area while Doreen and I shopped for Merino wool VF clothes for Liam. I found a pair of possum fur/Merino wool VF gloves I suddenly had to have. 🧤🧤🧤
Dinner was lamb steaks and root vegetables, followed by several rousing games of Rat-a-Tat-Cat. Liam won every game. 🤨Read more
Traveler Son bayas u orugas?
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Traveler No, son batatas (ñames).
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Traveler Elternzeit Australien + NZ
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- Dec 27, 2024
- ☁️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 329 m
- New Zealand Otago Queenstown-Lakes District Wanaka Mount Iron -44.697117, 169.16172844°41’50” S 169°9’42” E
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Day 55
Wanaka: Labyrinth, Täuschungen, Baden
December 27, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Ein entspannter Tag steht an. Wir starten auf dem netten Campingplatz, Valentin darf nach dem Frühstück draußen spielen und als wir uns den 2. Cappuccino im Café genehmigen, gibt es eine riesige Spieleecke für ihn - toll 😊

Dann geht’s nach Wānaka zum Einkaufen. Nach dem Feiertagen sind die Vorräte aufgebraucht. Im Anschluss haben wir uns etwas lustiges rausgesucht: die Wānaka Wonderful World of Weirdness - ein lokales Paradies für Labyrinthe, Illusionen, und Puzzles 😃 es ist wirklich ziemlich witzig! Zunächst besuchen wir 6 Räume, die verschiedene optische Illusionen beherbergen: von einem Ames-Raum, in dem Perspektive so verzerrt wird, dass man auf der einen Seite in der Ecke aussieht, wie ein Riese und auf der anderen wie ein Zwerg, über einen Raum mit konkaven Gesichtern, die einen zu verfolgen scheinen, bis zu einem Raum, der um 15° geneigt ist, sodass Wasser bei 12° „hinauffließt“ oder die Billardkugeln auf dem Tisch „hochrollen“. Hier wird uns beiden schon etwas schwummerig. 😵‍💫Der Höhepunkt ist ein großes Labyrinth draußen. Dessen schwierige Herausforderung - alle 4 Ecktürme in der richtigen Reihenfolge auffinden und dann zum Ausgang gehen - bewältigen wir in 70 Minuten 🧠💪

Zufrieden geht es zurück in die Stadt für einen Eisbecher und Treffen mit Robert und Saskia am See. Hier klettert Valentin nun fröhlich auf die Campingstühle und wieder herunter.

Dann gehen wir spontan essen in Wānaka - heute wird nicht gekocht! Es gibt leckere Burger bei Ya Ma‘s.

Zum Ende noch eine tolle Überraschung: der Campingplatz am Stadtrand ist total nett und auch direkt an einem Fluss. Wir nutzen die Gelegenheit und gehen kurz abkühlen und schauen uns noch ein wenig um, bevor wir in unsere Busse gehen. Morgen wollen wir früh raus zum Wandern 🥾Read more
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Traveler das Lachen ist ansteckend
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Our Southern Sojourn!
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- Sep 28, 2024, 11:59 AM
- ☁️ 10 °C
- Altitude: 330 m
- New Zealand Otago Queenstown-Lakes District Wanaka Mount Iron -44.696525, 169.16144744°41’47” S 169°9’41” E
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Day 15
Puzzling World, Wānaka (Part 1!)
September 28, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
What a wonderful and fun way to spend the day! It's advertised as Wānaka's Wonderful World of Weirdness and it lives up to this name!! It celebrated its 50th year in 2023 😀😀😀

Six rooms - Glow Safari, Tilted House, Hall of Following Faces, The Ames Illusion Room, Sculptillusion Gallery and Paradox Lane - are designed to challenge the mind (is seeing really believing??!!) and the Great Maze - challenges the mind, the senses, the body and advises that 'the maze is designed to be achievable before total desperation sets in'! I think Trev and I weren't too far off or went beyond it - it was too hot to work out which it was!!

The objective was to find all four towers of green, red, blue and yellow and get to the exit and we found all four towers and the exit! Yay us!!

The cafe even has puzzles on the tables to challenge yourself before, during and after lunch. It was so much fun!!

Afterwards, we made our way into Wānaka and had gelato by the lake and went back to Makarora. On our way to Franz Josef tomorrow.Read more
Suzie Holland I have this in common with Puzzling World!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Traveler How cool
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Traveler New Zealand
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- Nov 9, 2018, 2:40 PM
- 🌧 7 °C
- Altitude: 327 m
- New Zealand Otago Queenstown-Lakes District Wanaka Mount Iron -44.6959, 169.1643744°41’45” S 169°9’52” E
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Day 13
Wanaka, Mt Iron, Neuseeland
November 9, 2018 in New Zealand ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
Regen, Regen, Regen... Nachdem wir gestern relativ spät erst an unserer Campsite angekommen waren, haben wir heute ausgeschlafen :D der einzige Punkt für heute war der Mt Iron, der Einem eine schöne Sicht auf die beiden Seen (Wanaka und Hawea) geben sollte. Durch die Regenwolken konnte man leider nicht so viel erkennen... Aber dafür hatten Tete und ich unseren Spaß mit Random Gesprächen 😂 vor allem war diese Aktion die Beste seit langem:
*Bild von Tete hinter dem Warnschild* *kurze Zeit später*
H: *geht 20 Treppen schnell hinunter*
T: *von oben in einer mütterlichen Stimme* "Hannah pass auf sonst verlierst du noch eine Kniescheibe!*
H: "Ich habe doch letztens erst eine wiedergefunden!"
*lauter Rums*
*Tete rutscht aus und bewältigt die letzten 4 Treppenstufen mit einem Purzelbaum*
Kleine Wehwehchen und ein Lachflash waren die Folge. Die Stimmung konnte gar nicht besser sein 😂😂Read more
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Traveler Rebellisch!!😱😂
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Traveler Nettes Bild von euch beiden.
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Traveler Wo bleibt da das Vorbild für die Kinder!😇
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Traveler The Obis and the Kiwis
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- Dec 1, 2019
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Altitude: 327 m
- New Zealand Otago Queenstown-Lakes District Wanaka Mount Iron -44.69692, 169.16188144°41’49” S 169°9’43” E
Day 42
Wanaka to Queenstown
December 1, 2019 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Time to move on again! But first a visit to the Puzzling World. They also have a huge outdoor maze. I think we adults had more fun than Matilda, as all she wanted was to play inside 😂

On the way to Queenstown we passed by some skiing areas and we were questioning, where are the skiing lifts? I guess that we are very spoilt in Austria...

Finally we made it to the campground in Queenstown (the town center was in walking distance, but the campers are packed like Sardines) and it‘s raining and we were not so motivated to get out 😂

Queenstown‘s a cute town and when you find a Louis Vuitton you can bet that there were lots of tourists (especially Asian 😁), but the good thing: you find decent Asian food, too. So we ended up at a Vietnamese restaurant at the water front and the Beef Pho was delicious!

Also an ice cream always finds some space in the belly 😄 Matilda’s kiddy cone was huuuge and I was like, ok we‘re sharing 😂

Luckily the weather improved and it stayed dry. The kids had a great time at the playground by the lakeshore and we also witnessed a lovely sunset. Good night Queenstown.Read more
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