New Zealand – By kayak for the sake of variety
For the last highlight of our trip in NZ we chose a different perspective. Exploring the area of the Marlborough Sounds by kayak sounded like fun. The reality of three…
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New Zealand – New Year’s Festival
The Twisted Frequency Festival is located in the north of the South Island. We ended up here due to an overheating problem with our car. Luckily it happen right in…
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New Zealand – Abel Tasman Coastal Track
A Christmas with wine and beach. Why not spending the days around Christmas in the middle of a paradisiac landscape, with some hiking, sleeping in a tent and a backpack…
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New Zealand – And what about the cities?
Wellington. In the Museum of New Zealand: Te Papa Tongarewa (“the place of treasures of this land”) we got a detailed insight of the ancient Māori culture and the relatively…
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New Zealand – Why I felt in love with
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It was one of these magical moments, when I suddenly realized (again) how beautiful it is around me. I was driving in the car down south, curve after curve, when…
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New Zealand – Tama Lakes
Ten thousand years ago the Tama Lakes and other circular valleys in the Tongariro National Park were active craters with powerful throw ups of debris with more than three kilometers…
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New Zealand – Tongariro Alpine Crossing
Tongariro Alpine Crossing is a one day hiking tour and one of the nature highlights of the country. Most of the walk is through raw volcanic terrain. The three volcanoes…
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New Zealand – Hot water beach and too hot water holes
Hot Water Beach on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula Kuirau Park, to the west end of Rotorua, has hot bubbling mud pools and sulphur smelling hot pools. There…
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New Zealand – Between Kauris
Overview Kauri is the largest (by volume) but not tallest species of tree in New Zealand, standing up to 50 m tall in the emergent layer above the forest’s main…
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