Last week!

Christmas! I thought spending chrismas on the beach with a bbq, but it was raining all day! It was a strange christmas, but nice! I was with Dani in a hostel in Oamaru and we were the only two quests! IN the morning the two owners took us to the neighbours for cake and champain. Then we prepared a big lunch, and in the evening we went to other neighbours, I didn't know them, we just walked in and joined the dinner with the whole family!
Today I'm moving to Mount Cook, first it was a problem because the busses were not running on the times I wanted to go but one of the neighbours were going to Twizel (close to Mount Cook) So i'm now alone in the hostel/big old (ghost?) house and wainting for the lift, I said Dani goodbye this morning (he's gonna take his plane) and the couple from the hostel left for a day out!
New Year I'll spent in Lake Tekapo,
Happy New Year!!!

See you soon again
xxx Hilde

Tongariro crossing

Red Crater from the volcano! These pfoto's are taken on the Tongariro crossing. On the top it was freezing cold, but we were soo lucky with the weather.

- The Fox Glacier from out of the helicopter!
- Abel Tasman national park

Oke! Here some photo's!! Ice hiking on the Franz Josef glacier and some by the Southern Alps.

Camper

Hay! Yesterday I arrived in Queenstown, the adventure city of New Zealand :D. The last day I walked a lot and have seen some amazing views, today I climed a mountain around 1400 meter high, (the last meters to the top were pretty exhausting but the view afterwards was so great!). For the next 5 days I rent a camper van with Dani and we're going to Milford Sounds and drive around in the area here.
See you later!
xxx

South Island!

Hey! back in the South Island again! It's a long time ago that I wrote here.. sorry for that! Finally I'm feeling better after a stupid virus attack, sometimes still bad days but most time fine now! It's now raining a lot (Franz Josef). I arrived here today after seen the Pancake rocks in Punakaiki and this morning I came from Hokitika. Tomorrow I wanna do a day hiking at Franz Josef hopefully the weather is getting better. The last weeks I've done a lot, I did the Tongariro crossing in the North Island, which was absolutely gorgious. We had the best day after a week of bad weather and a lot of wind. In total the trip took 7,5 hours (7 hours only walking, pretty exhausting, but amazing views) The volcanos were active and there came steam out of the ground on a lot of places. After being back South again I went to Abel Tasman, rent a car for a couple of days with Dani (from Spain) and we drove to the north of Abel Tasman and Cape Farewell, that was amazing as well. Completely empty, we were on a beach full with fur seal. In the middle of Abel Tasman visited a big hole in the ground (kind of cave) and near to this place was a view point, I have never been on such a dangerous and high edge without a fence.
In the next days a go to lake Wanaka, visit Queenstown and i'm gonna make a cruise in Milford Sounds (must be one of the most beautiful places in New Zealand). Yesterday I burned my photos on a cd, I think a took already more then 1000.

See you soon!
xxx Hilde

Auckland

Today I arrived in Auckland, a big city where I'll stay one night. Yesterday I went to Coromandel, sea sun and white beaches. Tomorrow I go to the north of the north island (bay of Islands and Cape Reinga). The weather is great, sun sun sun, and I'll stay there for a couple of night to enjoy the white beaches and I wanna make a cruise there. Last week I've seen the mud pool, geysers and all these volcanic activity in Rotorura, amazing! And I climbed the Mount Maunganui (it's only a small hill but the view was great!) I need some exercise before I do the Tongariro crossing (a walk for 17 km) I'm gonna tramp this track when I go south again. It's a crossing over volcanos/mountains, and really exhausted. I met some boys from Israel who did the crossing some days ago, but the weather was terrible, I asked them for the pictures but they took only a few, because their fingers were frozen and couldn't press the butten for taking the photos :) I met them in Taupo (and they had a car) so went to the big Huka falls (water falles and the crater of the moon, steam is coming out from the ground, really weird. Now I'm gonna exploror Auckland and find a food shop.. See you!

Hay people!

Since yesterday in Wellington, after a nice and less nice week in Kaikoura! The first day of my trip, ill, flu, ill, and felt terrible. I went to a docter and did he did some bloodtests. I stayed longer in Kaikoura than I had planned, but anyway it was a good decision. Kaikoura is a beautiful place and last Friday I (when I was better) I went snorkelling with dolphins! Soo great, there was a group of 200, they jumped out of the water made salto's and swum everywhere, behind, below, right and left from you. I also saw 7 whales, which is very unusual and a lot of seals (how cute!!)

Backpacken!

Monday the 5th of November I start my travel adventure! Since now I use this blog, because I can't upload anymore on my own webpage. See you!!