We woke up to a very blustery day, the wind was incredibly strong in the morning. As we walked to the car to leave the YHA, we found ourselves having to lean against the direction that the car was blowing otherwise we’d fall over! Our plans for the day were simply to drive back to [...]

Our holiday was almost over, and it was time for us to make our way back to Christchurch for our flight back to Melbourne. We had a day and a half to make a ten hour drive from Te Anau, so we decided to drive 6+ hours during the day, and stay a night at [...]

We went on a one day Milford Sound tour today with Real Journeys. They picked us up from YHA Te Anau, and then we got onto a custom built bus. According to the tour driver, the bus was built specifically for the Queenstown / Te Anau – Milford Sound journey. The room of the bus [...]

Today was a semi-relaxing day, we didn’t have much to do except to drive to Te Anau from Wanaka, which was only about 3+ hours away. First, we made a stop at the information center to find out the road conditions of the Crown Range Road, which led from Wanaka to Queenstown. This was a [...]

We had a late-ish start this morning, as we were booked on a half day hike on the Franz Josef Glacier. We had originally planned to go on the Fox Glacier hike, but I heard that you had to climb about 700+ steps just to reach the glacier, and the sound of that freaked me [...]

Today was one of the day’s that I had worried the most about our timing. It involved a drive of almost 500 kms to get to the Franz Josef glacier. If we didn’t make it in time, we would have to forfeit the money we had paid for the half day glacier trekking!
Our first leg [...]