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Top 10 New Zealand North Island’s unforgettable sights
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 25 August 2009
Although we didn’t manage to fit all things we want to see in the North Island of New Zealand, like for example the art deco city of Napier, the Waitomo cave or the Waikaremoana lake, after having drove bottom to top through this island over 3000km I think we got enough to put together our top 10, so here we go:
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Snapshot of the week: with no boundary
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 20 August 2009
Cape Reinga Lighthouse – Far North New Zealand
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Discovering New Zealand North Island
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 14 August 2009
Everybody seem to rave about how beautiful is the South Island of New Zealand, which surly we can’t argue with it, but we wanted to give it a chance also to the North Island so we spared 2 weeks to travel from “Welly” up to Cape Reinga before flying out from Auckland.
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Akaroa – New Zealand’s Only French Settlement
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 13 August 2009
The charming township of Akaroa sits at the edge of a pleasing harbor inside the eroded crater of a gigantic, extinct volcano. Akaroa is located an hour and a half drive southeast of Christchurch on Banks Peninsula, the South Island’s most impressive volcanic feature. The peninsula has two prevailing craters which form Lyttelton and Akaroa harbors. As the only French settlement in New Zealand, the town is elegant, full of character and worth a visit. The best way to explore Akaroa is on foot. We started at the information center, located ...
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Returning to New Zealand
Blog: Trail of Ants - 13 August 2009
It was close to midnight as the pilot mumbled that we were about to descend. I looked around the cabin, a gallery of oval frames. In a dozen of them, I glanced the burning embers of Wellington. Street lamps flowed in channels off the rumpled hills that shepherd the city to the southern coast [...]
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Snapshot of the week: the giant marbles
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 5 August 2009
The Moeraki Boulders, Hampden Beach south of Oamaru – New Zealand South Island
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A Haphazard Birthday
Blog: Trail of Ants - 4 August 2009
Heart thumping. Eyes sweating. Palms clenched. Girlfriend weeping. People staring. Lady smiling. Jaw gripped. Foot shuffling. Mind racing. We were checking in one hour before our scheduled departure, and the lady at the check-in desk was telling us we weren’t getting on the flight. Lady smiling. Palms clenched. We’d run the gauntlet up until now, phone [...]
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Gouraud: The Street and the General
Blog: Half - 28 July 2009
If you tell a taxi to take you to the Beirut neighborhood of Gemmazeh, they’ll drop you at the start of the Rue Gouraud – the main bar, restaurant and club packed street running through this noisy neighborhood, which somehow manages to be grungy and upscale chic at the same time. I love it! You [...]
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Hooked up! The top 10 places to fish in New Zealand
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 28 July 2009
I never like fishing, I found it the most boring sports ever, waiting for hours and hours before something happen, and always wonder why Chris like it so much even though we often ended up at the fish counter in the store. But that was before we came to the angler’s paradise called New Zealand.
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Flight of the Cockheads
Blog: Trail of Ants - 21 July 2009
Have you ever pre-applied for a visa while on the road? If so, you’ll know they always say “don’t make travel plans until your visa is confirmed”. As always, when I was recently applying for New Zealand’s 23-month working holiday visa, I respectably scoffed at the small print. Six weeks to secure a working holiday [...]
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New Zealander campers’ nuts
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 21 July 2009
We know that NZ is famous for its rugged and diverse great landscape and what would be the ideal way to experience it at its best? Easy answer: camping of course.
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Our top 10 of the Kiwi’s South Island
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 17 July 2009
1. get a closer look to the giant rivers of solid blue ice of the dramatic glacial valleys of Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers. The weird thing is that we didn’t have to climb high, they are just easily accessible at the foot of the mountains flowing straight into temperate rainforest (300m above sea level) and only 5km each from their town’s centre, just few steps away and we were right in the middle of this iced world brrrrr;
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Is it just me or is the road moving?
Blog: AdventureSkope - the ramblings of Scott Kennedy - 15 July 2009
it shook so hard.... just kidding
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Snapshot of the week: another untouched panorama
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 12 July 2009
Peel Forest, South Cantenbury - New Zealand South Island
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New Zealand beyond any travel books
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 10 July 2009
If I was a child visiting New Zealand and would draw a picture of my trip I will paint green rolling hills dotted here and there with white and brown spots, a crystal turquoise river, a rainbow in the blue ski crossed by a falcon and iced peaks on the background, that’s pretty much the amazing Kiwi’s land.
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Photo of the day
Blog: AdventureSkope - the ramblings of Scott Kennedy - 8 July 2009
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North Island, New Zealand
Blog: By Way of the World - 7 July 2009
From Christchurch, we made our way to Picton, a town in the Marlborough sounds at the northern end of New Zealand's South Island. From there were able to take the Interislander Ferry, which took about four hours to get to Wellington. It had beautiful views of the Marlborough Sounds, though it was very cold out on the deck, so we weren't able to stay outside long.
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New Zealand Wine Country
Blog: By Way of the World - 3 July 2009
New Zealand has two main wine regions, one in the South Island (Marlborough) and one in the North (Hawkes Bay).
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Travel in a Spaceship
Blog: The Indie Travel Podcast - 29 June 2009
A Spaceship is a great way to see New Zealand – it's easy to drive, comfortable to sleep in, and the support and accessories smooth the way even further.HELP! Indie Travel Podcast hosts Craig and Linda are competing for a three-month blogging trip around New Zealand. Help us bring you more great content by following this blog by 12pm Tuesday NZ time. NUMBERS ARE THE SOLE DETERMINING FACTOR in making it from the final ten to the final three.
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Photo of the day
Blog: AdventureSkope - the ramblings of Scott Kennedy - 20 June 2009
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Photo of the day
Blog: AdventureSkope - the ramblings of Scott Kennedy - 8 June 2009
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Photo of the day
Blog: AdventureSkope - the ramblings of Scott Kennedy - 22 May 2009
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Mt. Earnslaw in Photos
Blog: AdventureSkope - the ramblings of Scott Kennedy - 25 April 2009
Last weekend I went on a very cool mountaineering trip to Mt. Earnslaw – a peak in the Southern Alps not far from my home. It was an incredible trip with some good stories to share. For the moment I’ll post these photos and get back soon with the words to fill in the details.Here is the ultra distilled version of the weekend:Fast and lightno stopping to smell the rosesvalley to summit in 8hrs2500m vertical gainsafe and soundsore feet
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Mountains of Color
Blog: AdventureSkope - the ramblings of Scott Kennedy - 18 March 2009
This past weekend I went on a very cool trip into the New Zealand mountains. Here in the Southern Alps we are lucky enough to have some of the most stunning scenery around – and this trip into the Park Pass area was no exception. I’ve decided to post a selection of images from the trip under the theme of color. It seemed at every turn was a fresh scene best exemplified by the stunning color palate.
