We got up on time to get to Hobbiton on time. Basti rally wanted to look at the film set of these movies and I have to say, they are quite impressive. Sir Peter Jackson discovered this place, the Alexander farm in September 1998 as he was clogging over this area in a helicopter to READ MORE
Kia ora! Urgh it stinks here!
We woke up with the alarm to start early. We never slept to long so it was not a big effort for us. We made ourselves some breakfast and drove a bit further to Wai-O-Tapu which includes the largest area of thermal activity on the surface. It was formed approximately 160,000 years ago and includes READ MORE
Let’s have a look what the north looks like
We woke up pretty early because we parked at the staff parking space from Zealandia after our night tour and had to get away. So we started the morning with a drive to Foxton beach, which was about 1.5 h away. As we arrived almost nobody was there. Just some locals walking their dogs. It READ MORE
Getting from South to North
We had to wake up pretty early because we had a booking for the ferry to the north island at 9:05am. On our way to Picton we could see an amazing sunrise and a few women carrying a torch. So we thought for a second this could have something to do with Olympia, but that READ MORE
Annoyed of all that driving around!
Our day started earlier as the one from all the others from our campsite. We wanted to explore Farewell Spit but all we got was Cape Farewell. The Spit is one of the northwest points of the South Island of New Zealand but as a normal person we weren’t allowed to go any further then READ MORE
Relax & enjoy the nature
So we stood up pretty early because we had to leave the campsite between 7 to 7:30. We already explained the campers, who have parked their van right in from of us, we have to leave on time, so they have to move in the morning. And we were happy as we recognized they did READ MORE
Could have stayed here 4-ever
We almost need anything everyday so we went to Countdown to buy some food. But the next thing in the plan was the best for the whole day. A drive to the Golden Bay to take a short walk to Wharariki Beach. As we finally arrived there it was almost 3 pm and we just READ MORE
Enough water for one day
We searched for a freedom camping space and found one next to highway 6. It wasn’t the best idea because we stood crooked with our camper all night and didn’t really get a lot of sleep, but we were to stingy to pay for a campsite this time. Basti dreamt that we would tip over READ MORE
A bit of recovery for our legs
After our glacier hike we wanted a bit of relaxation for our legs, because we had aching muscles. So we had just two stations on our plan so far. We headed to Elisabeth point. A nice place north of Greymouth on the western coastline. We drove to the very last carpark and had to walk READ MORE
That was just not our day
We started our day with a beautiful view and sunshine. We got down to the get-together area of the campsite to make breakfast. There was nothing but a sink, a toaster, a stove and a water boiler. So we went up to the camper to get all the kitchen stuff we needed. There was a READ MORE