August 14, 2011 in Australia & Oceania, My Abroad Trips, New Zealand
Auckland That evening, we landed in Auckland and for the local driving we got a Corolla (again) which was bit stiff and less interesting. I convinced myself and drove it to the Ventura Inn hotel (in the airport boulevard). This is for budget travellers and one can expect really disappointing levels of service. I parked [...]
August 14, 2011 in Australia & Oceania, My Abroad Trips, New Zealand
Queenstown – Day II Our temptations for the skydiving grow much here, however, we were sceptical about the weather as the previous day shown the symptoms of a possible storm. To surprise us, weather was clean and sunny. That quickly gave me a thought to postpones the flight to Auckland for the next day and [...]
August 14, 2011 in Australia & Oceania, My Abroad Trips, New Zealand
Queenstown At times, the least expected takes you off guarded. Queenstown is one of them. Queenstown is beautiful, vibrant and lively. I may even call that’s a best place to settle down after retirement. Its that beautiful. Queenstown is dramatic by looks and dreamy to feel. Queenstown sits at the shores of Lake Wakitapu and [...]
August 13, 2011 in Australia & Oceania, My Abroad Trips, New Zealand
Milford Sounds (Continued) Next day morning we were awaken by the announcement systems . This time, seals were resting on those rocks near to those cliffs. Too lazy in the morning. (It seems that they prepare that way for the busy day. They got to find 10% of their total weight of fishes to call [...]
August 13, 2011 in Australia & Oceania, My Abroad Trips, New Zealand
Milford Sounds – Piopiotahi We reached that departure terminal (for boats/ships) just 30 mins prior to our scheduled time. We redeemed our confirmation with standard boarding tickets and joined those people who were waiting for the same. A bit about this place before we head to our vessel. A little excess to 6 meter (yes [...]
August 13, 2011 in Australia & Oceania, My Abroad Trips, New Zealand
Drive to Milford Sounds Oh my..my..my. Where am I going to start. I would need time to collate the things I should write here. I don’t want to miss anything at all. Not even the smallest detail. Miford “sounds”? Na, it doesn’t sound at all. In fact, they should have named as Milford fjord or [...]
August 8, 2011 in Australia & Oceania, My Abroad Trips, New Zealand
Te Anau After those adventurous moments at Shotover river jet, we were on the road for another long journey which clocked 200 Kms. It was supposed to be less than 2 hours and thirty minutes. But the rain and other drivers made it longer to me. Drive towards Te Anau is quite peaceful drive. Lake [...]
August 8, 2011 in Australia & Oceania, My Abroad Trips, New Zealand
Lake Wanaka to Shotover Jet @ Queenstown Wanaka means “Renewal of Soul” as in Maori culture. Had I been consulted, I would have named as Rejuvenation of the Soul. Wanaka sits at the Southern end of Lake Wanaka in the otago region. Lake Wanaka is the 4th biggest lake which measures 300 meters of depth [...]
August 1, 2011 in Australia & Oceania, My Abroad Trips, New Zealand
Wanaka – Road Treasure After Ice walking adventure, we quickly returned to our mobile home of that lovely Coralla. On our to Wanaka, we had plenty of lookouts and the very first one that easily can be missed and should be missed is Fox Glacier lookout. We had to drive in single lane mud road [...]
August 1, 2011 in Australia & Oceania, My Abroad Trips, New Zealand
Glacier Ice Walking “From its origins high in the Southern Alps, the Franz Josef Glacier descends deep into the lush rainforest of Westland National Park” 25th Jan 2011. We stayed at Alpine Glacier Motel a cosy one for that town. But when you are there in one of the best carved pieces of earth, cosy [...]
