Mt. Coock ... and ...

Hola hola!!! In Dunedin again for Write about this last week ;) Everything are perfect, and I'm back because I found again a little job here for save a little bit the money ^^. But for the next week, now moving to the south again to visit the Castlings!(Coast)
So I'm going to travel another week just after the visit to Mt. Coock, Long beach and Elephant Rocks(This to last are places for climbing), and wanaka and queenstown again because was the only road to return jejeje.

We rent a car (same that now for this next week, travelling wich more liberty.
The places for climbing was awesome! And I thing that I will come back to this places before leave. And the Mt. Coock was with also good weather, very lucky! Just unlucky for the view to the Mt. cause in the top of the Hookey Valley was a little bit fogy!



After, I continued to Wanaka and Queenstown to met the friend from when I been there. Much mouvment, much Km in no much days, so my plan(that finally change again in the last minute) was relaxing in Duniden in the Elm Backpacack where I met really good friend, reason that I'm going to work here.

Well I will be out of backpackers for a week, so... see you soon(Week) ^^
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Stewart Island

Here we are!!! Te Anau- Colac Bay- Invercalhill- Obam- Dunedin
After another hiking week, I'm arrived in Dunedin from Stewart Island, the island that are mostly in the south of New Zealand. We took the ferry 6 days ago, and we went to a walk for 4 days. Again beautiful weather... but the tracks were very muddy, and this one, was the reason that we walked (me, Marko(CH-D) and Guillaume(CH-F)) alone during all days. Beautiful beaches and dense forest again with much birds. (Bad luck for Kiwis but ... doesn't matter ^^). Awesome sunrise very colorful and of course full of sunflys :P.
Well stop talk and show you some pictures, "one picture it's better than 1000 words" so ... see you soon... !!!




Well, I don't know were is my next destination, I only know for the moment that I'm in Dunedin for the St. Patrick Day ^^, so....after we'll see ;). Long Beach, and Elephant Rock are the only plan that maybe I like to go.(Climb)jejeje

Hasta la Próxima!
A la prochaine!
See you!

Kepler Track

Hey ya! Relaxing Days, ^^. Fabian and me, we finished yesterday the Kepler Track, It's a great walk in NZ. We spend 3 night in the track. The first day was quite good and easy, slowly and good weather, the second and the fourth day also, and we walk in the forest, but the third day was in the top of the mountain, we had very strong wind and "SNOW", very cold!! extremely conditions, quite hard. But also beautiful landscape again, and forest very dens and green. Was a nice walk, but a little bit nuisance with the Sunflys!. Here I show you again very good pictures that we took.

Queenstown

Yeeee menos mal!!!!,Well I'm in Te Anau but I write for Queenstown! I spend there 1 week, and after I leave to Milford Sound, the mostly famous Fiord in New Zealand because is quite easy and accessible to arrive.
During this week there I met good people in the Backpacker and we did some staffs together (Fabian,Sandra,Hannah,Rob). We had not a really good weather, but…. Good. I walked to the submit of the closer big mountain, aproximatli to 7 hours walking and very step. But the best was... ride biking. A friend give me a bike, I toke the gondola for half day and up and down, up and down. Really really good, I never imagine that is possible for me to ride this tracks very step and fast in the forest and fly in bigs jumps…. just AWESOME!!!!
After this week I thing that I will go again into the wild ^^ for climb close to Invercarhill, but first a cruise in the fiords!! ^^
And maybe the next post will be in one or two weeks, depend if I'll Found Internet or not.
See you!!!

Wanaka

Long time!! I'm sorry but,... you now, when you travel sometime, it's not to easy to found internet.
But now I'm writing from Queenstown. Pantagonia Chocolates and Ice cream jejejeje miam miam.
Well, one week ago, when I was finish my stance in Simon wwoof, I just went to the border of Wanaka Lake, and slept there two night. I met another climber from Japan and we climbed some boulders. He have a car so I came which him to here. The weather was perfect, very beautiful sky during the day and during the night.
During three days I stay in the wild and ... No much tourist ^^. Really big diference to here in Queenstown, I thing that have more tourist than people living.

So, few pictures from this days...

See you next post!!!

Fox Gracier - Wanaka

Hey hey! Long time again! I`m sorry but here is hard to find a place with good internet for write a new post. The backpackers to expensive and the west coast just really bad internet.

Well, you already know. Greymonth was very "Grey" and I decide to continue to the south.

Maybe I visit again Nelson and nelson lakes in the end. But now south. I hitchhiked from Grey to Franz Joseph Glacier, but the weather was also very bad. I slept one night and to Fox, were I was there also one night, but with a better weather, therefor I walk to the glacier and few little tracks.

The day after a family in a campervan picked me up there to Wanaka, where I'm now.

Here in Wanaka I also made a tracks to Roys Peak, is the top of a mountain 1587 m. the track a little bit exhausting, but you have a very nice landscape during the walk and in the top.

During this two days, I also search a wwoof, and I found one, from where I'm writing now. ^^ I'm here for one week. I'm sure that during this week I'll write new entry, so.... hasta la próxima muy pronto! ;) Un saludo! Salutation! Greetings!

Castle Hill

Me re-voila! :P

After Takaka, the movement was to Chrischurch, we came whith friends that we met in the camp site. Few hours in the road, and search a backpacker again in the city, quite hard because a lot of buildings are in reparation because of the earthquake in the end of the last year, and others not to strong. When we were in the Library we felt one few seconds. Well the people in the site just said " Don't care" xDD.

We slept only two night here, and the day after we caught a bus to Castle Hill and hitchhiking from the camp site to another place for climb. This place compared wich Takaka is very difficult (only few V2,V3 and V4 and all other harder),We didn't found much boulders for us, and the weather also not very grateful. But nice landscape, nice caves ^^, and nice rock.

The place were we slept was not very confortable xD just in the rocks, because is not a place for camping. Private zone, but we found a cave a little bit hidden. ^^

We stayed 4 days, four days climbing ^^ (desgaste de manos a tope xD) and we leaved, Florian to the West coast and me to Springfield! (not Simpson :P), but very boring town, and old athmosphere, and I decided to came back to Chrischurch for search a wwoofer in internet.

And now, 3 days here and ...... I will tell you the next time ;)

Abel Tasman National Park

Here one time more! :P
Continue my blog after Wellington and all party's in the capital and 6 days of walking in Nelson region, more accurately in Abel Tasman National Park.
In the first time, my idea was search a wwoof host directly when I came to nelson, but in the Backpacker in Nelson were I was, I met a girl who told me that she was going to walk in a very beautiful place. The day after, one friend that I met in Wellington also came to Nelson to the same backpacker and we decided to do one similar Track.
After the preparations, we started the January 5, and we finished six days after. ^^.
We started in the island track and we finished in the Coastal Track. We walked the circuit, the same that in this map.

Really, I think that is my best walk, really peaceful and very calm, just walk talk which Florian in english and appreciate the view.
The first three days we walked in the forest and one of this three days which a wery heavy rain during all moment in the day and we arrived in the Hut completly wet, but the three last days we walked in the coast in the sand of the beach. We met a lot of people and we saw a very very clear sky. Well, a perfect week. And very important.... I feel very great during this 4 or 5 week. Good Country. ^^

Well, as in all entry, I put some pictures.






And this picture is the sunrise in one camping in the coastal track, really cool. Fist forest, grass, sand and water. Just perfect. And in this beach we saw seals. Seals in picassa

And the next picture we try which my camera new functions and I just found the option for make pictures in the night, for example this one which the torch.

Tongoriro

After Taupo, I went to the Tongoriro National Park, it is a very beautifull volcanic region.
Taupo was only to prepare for this walk, and to wait for good weather, because during 4 days in this region it had only been rainy and windy. :P
Well, I went to the National Park in the morning with another friend, Mateo. When we arrived the first day it was very good weather, but it turned out to be a thunderstorm with winds of 100 Km/h. xD. However the track was very pleasant. We walkin total 45 Km in the end. At first we thought that we would walk for 4 days, but finally it was only 2 days. But nevertheless, we walked a lot.

After the walk when we got back to the car we took the road to Napier.
I'm sorry, but I don't have the time to write much, and in english is a bit difficult, so here few pictures. :P









And the next is Napier where I'm in the moment, and Wellington for the new year ;) Happy Chrismas!!!