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Hello all,<br />Been not so long since the last update but I managed to do so many things:<br />I went to golden bay which was completely amazing, you see a wonderfull beach surrounded by a forest and rocks in all kind of shapes and all that in a 30 minutes walk.<br />Ofcourse we went further and did a few hours, but it was really great. Golden bay is also an area of very relaxed hippi people so you have a very relaxed and cool atmoshpere.

More of the south Island

Omer Ramote
2006-04-02 21:46:49

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of new zealand, from here all the most beautifull walking tracks go out and all the main attractions for tourist are.

Wanaka is a beautifull small town right on an amazing lake, the views there are incredible, we did a day walk of 3 hours called the rob roy which leads you to a mountain with a glacier and snow, and also went to cinema paradiso a very nice cinema in wanaka which is famous all over, it has couches instead of seats and even a car you can sit in, it has a very old style feeling to it, and in the half time they make amazing choc chip cookies. I ate 2 of them, and an ice cream, was really good.

In wanaka i met with ron again, and we left on a track together with amir who did the queen charlotte wit us and 2 more girls, and a lifter we took. we were 7 all togehter.
We also met another 6 israelis who were gonna do the track, so we went out as 13 israelis!!!

This track is called the gillespi pass and it is considered to be very beautifull, the problem is that it's a bit hard and we went out very late, already on the first night one of the girls got injured in the middle of the way, now we didn't know that and when we reached the hut(me daniel and our lifter) we saw that no one else is coming and it was already getting dark, ron managed to get there before dark but all the other 9 israelis slept outside in the bush!!.

We went back the next day down a bit and saw them, we had to carry the girl that got injured and her pack to the hut which was empty since it's very small, we then walked to the next hut and told the guardian of it that the girl is injured, he walked back to that hut and got a helicopter for her, it was very exciting and we were even in the newspaper, well she was but we were the friends who went to call for help ;).

All in all the track was amazing, we saw a lake that is half frozen, walked in a valley surrounded by mountains, but i guess views are not intresting to hear about anymore, I enjoyed it, but it was a tough experience, also on the last day we had terrible weather again, and got completely soaked, at least we took a jetboat out of the track, which was very fun.

And that's it, now i am going to queenstown, which is the biggest tourist city in NZ, and I might jump bungi who knows, we'll see if i have the balls for it.
Hope you are all going great, my trip in nz is already 2 months, and I am feeling used to travelling now, but sometimes I really miss home and everything around it.
So write me some mails, and tell me what you think of the photos, I update my blog with photos sometimes without updating the text, so check it from time to time to see new pictures

also daniel put a lot of picutres on the net on
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=elvw8kx.gvd6ks5&x=0&y=1h7bik
There are a lot of my pictures there so go check it out.