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Hallo. Welcome to my web-page 'bout my trip to New-Zealand. I wanted to write this page so I can put all my photos (well, just the good ones, actually) on the web so everyone can see them. I guess that if you're planning to go to NZ, this page might help a bit.

Note - well, I tried to put my whole trip into this page, but mostly I followed my photos. That means there are lot's of places that I won't mention here, but that I've been to, and liked alot (or didn't, for that matter. Not that there was a place in NZ I didn't like, come to think of it...) So there.

My trip to New-Zealand

Rm
2004-08-10 18:26:49

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many good pictures from the Northland. But it doesn't mean I didn't like it there...

On the way to the South-Island

After the Northland, we went back to Auckland. We bought a car, said good bye to Ronen, and went south. Our plan was to reach the south-island as soon as possible. We did make a stop at Rotorua, Taupu and National-Park, to do the Tongariro track. Rotorua is a great place, and the thermal activities there are superb. We went to Hell's Gate (one of many places, I think it's nice). In Taupu we did some SkyDiving (cool!) and we also climb a small mountain (Tauhara - nice, a good exercise for all the tramps...). The Tongariro crossing is of course a 'must' - a beautiful one-day tramp, between 3 volcanoes. We didn't want to do the three day track (The northern circuit) - but now I certainly would have done it - it should be a beautiful track.

The Queen Charlotte Track

The Abel Tasman was my first track, and I really enjoyed it. Most of my trip was about tramping, and it's great. Straight after the Abel Tasman, I went back to picton, where I wanted to do the Queen Charlotte track. The reason I was so excited is that I was told you can do it with a mountain bike. Doing that track on a bike was so much fun I cannot begin to describe it. It was also extremely hard, and painful (I had several really nasty falls. I still have some scars from that ride!). It was the first time I went on a mountain bike (but not the last!). The nice part about that track, is that you can have a boat deliver your bag from place to place (so you leave the bag where you stay at night, and it waits for you on your next stop). And you sleep in backpackers and not in huts, which is nice, too (well, actually I learned to really enjoy the huts in the tracks). The views in the track are stunning of course (although I took little ...