Category Archives: New Zealand

When people ask us what our favourite place in New Zealand was, Mount Cook National Park definitely ranks among the top five spots of our travel! The combination of Lake Pukaki’s turquoise water, a bright blue sky, golden grassland and … Continue reading →

On the coastal highway north of Dunedin the road sign to ‘Shag Point’ peaked our interest and we just had to check out where this was going 🙂 It turned out to be quite a normal little lookout with lots … Continue reading →

Dunedin is New Zealand’s most Scottish city with its own Tartan and everything. And true enough … in the evenings we heard bagpipes playing in the distance from our youth hostel window. . We spent the most relaxing three days in … Continue reading →

. The penguin family didn’t care too much about the rope that was laid out to keep the few tourists at bay and happily jumped right in front of the cameras. . When we returned to our tent in the … Continue reading →

With little more than a week left before we had to be at the (already postponed) ferry in Picton, we realised that we had to get some miles on the road in the next few days. From Manapouri we enjoyed … Continue reading →

Sometimes the weather in New Zealand just isn’t fair! Hiking the Routeburn Track in rain and fog one day … beautiful sunshine for the drive from Glenorchy to Te Anau the next day … and then rain and clouds again … Continue reading →

It was time to say goodbye to the West Coast, but not before we had a final taste of a signature West Coast delicacy: whitebait. These small transparent fish are fried with some egg, salt and pepper to a round pattie … Continue reading →

The last section of the West Coast highway took us from Fox to the rather unimpressive village of Haast, named after the German explorer who was brown nosing the Austrian emperor by naming a glacier after him 🙂 On the … Continue reading →

Originally we had planned to spend the night after Franz Josef at Gillespie Beach camp ground near Fox Glacier with a romantic sundowner on the beach. Apparently we were not the only ones who had that brilliant idea and when … Continue reading →