We are now just a week in Hong Kong. Life so different. Drum still a few quick thoughts on gleaning New Zealand before I slipped out of the whole brain. For two months NZ can not so easily dealt with in just two posts. 3, it must be so. So I'm still as the itinerary of the South Island of guilty. We finally arrived to Picton. Very nice accommodation, the Jugglers Rest, walks next to the cliffs, fish and chips at the port ("That's what Fish and chips used to be in Britain, cheap, fresh and good" quote Jeremy), Playground with a pirate boat. From there we went to Okiwi Bay, where we had rented for a couple of days a house. A small village in the Marlborough Sounds, build sand castles on the beach and collect shells and then on to Nelson and on to Seager and Sue on the farm. Then to Golden Bay with a huge beach, seals, wild suspension bridge, a sleepy village shops, playground with steam locomotive. The outward and back we have turned the "Jester". A restaurant that eels in the nearby river to eat but not to stroke offers and where Jeremy and Caspar extensively recorded the great chess game, and Quentin, the sandpit. Via Nelson drove to Kairoura, where you can see whales or even can not see. In any case, we have smelled many seals (You smell them before you see them, somehow after fishy dog waste), seafood eaten and yes of course Spielplaetzte explored. Then we drove over the mountains to Reefton in the Goldgraebergebiete. There are still men with long beards that make the old days living high. And the abandoned settlements, not spit gold or coal, and so completely schatzlos remain. From the mountains down to the coast, to Westport for a walk desedimentation from Cape Foul Wind, wild and wavy to track down friends of friends for dinner in our nice hostel (Beacon Stone, all Oeko take but usually no children, but after no other guests ,...) were invited to dinner. There we also have Jeremy's Birthday begun. To celebrate the day he was awakened very early by a very excited Caspar and then it went to his main present, a rafting trip through a glow worm cave. The firefly (Arachnocampa) are different from us in larvae that sit on the Hoehlendecke and through the lights attract insects and eat them. Jeremy has told he is then driven for several minutes under a dome, illuminated like the Milky Way. We, meanwhile, passed the time so with a small train to and herzufahren. Caspar was a special friend of the driver and could help set the course. We then have dinner all together made a little off the beaten track and Hoehlentour also have had our little Gluehwuermchenerlebnis. Was not so spectacular but still exciting enough, because we were traveling alone and are then found the exit and raugekommen not in another. But we are the sound of the waves investigated and have found again the road next to the sea. That was near the Pancake Rocks, the pancake rocks, magnificent rock structures with blowholes where the water at high waves wild breathes and blows out, the rainbow sparkle. We spent a night in Okarito, a wonderfully peaceful village, by the beach. There I would have liked to stay longer. But we were allowed to stay in our accommodation only dream one night and we went to the glaciers, the Franz Josef (so named after the old emperor) and the Fox (Walk to the ice and playground with trampoline). There we have the bad weather and then I caught a cold, and we continued, past amazing waterfalls and rainbows over seascapes to Wanaka. Suddenly, the fall was there. Full of colorful leaves and soft light. Bright blue sky and wild wind. Playground with giant dinosaurs. From here you get great mountain hikes, but the weather was once again not hold. Instead we were really impressive with derPuzzleworld maze and Jeremy has fulfilled a boyhood dream: to fly biplane. With glasses and leather jacket and cap gepelzter, very original. Very ventilated.
We then have made the difficult decision to leave the southern tip of the left and to Dunedin to drive. We stayed there on a farm at the head of the Otago Peninsula, which holds a penguin reserve. And there, for the first time we paid only the normal double room costs 20 € and had at first even for the whole house to us. Noble view of the sea and the Penguin Tour on your doorstep. There they dug tunnels through which one can sneak up on the very shy yellow-eyed penguins. At present she had just spring changes and as they stand around all day only, is growing around them a bunch of feathers and wait until some news. In time, they can not into the sea and must, if they are not bold enough in advance to starve. No wonder they are threatened with extinction. Also, because their breeding sites were destroyed, everything is for Farms cleared.
In Otago, the albatrosses breed. Fluegelspannweite birds with 3 meters, which might fly forever, a sleeping only half of their brain. All the Otago Peninsula is highly recommended, full of wild glances over a water and islands, enchanted beaches and interesting animals. All the kind of visit per tour, but walking is free. And because you can see sea lions and the odd penguin. Flooded playground with fishing boat.
We have then presented on Easter Sunday to the north to meet Jeremy's sister, Jenny. Very appropriate to this day, we walked past the Moeraki Boulders. Huge rock "eggs" from the beach and slowly dissolved from the sea crumbles be. Caspar said that the Easter eggs are for the whales. The need even bigger. Logical.
So we have Jenny Lake taken in Clearwater, a very secluded holiday complex in the middle of nowhere. There we caught up and the Lord of the Rings. We have it - although one of them is prosecuted and down the down the country - to visit this far avoided the original site of the films. But here we are almost tripped over one. And of course (do not ask me what is the name of) where the Riders of Rohan living here is very peculiar. So empty. So huge. So brown. Playground with an old tractor. Then there
went to Christchurch, a really nice kulturdurchwobene city where we the audience gasping Buddha's birthday in the square near the cathedral and the playground at the Botanic Garden frequented several times (with a swing for wheelchair users). And then we flew out of Christchurch over to Hong Kong Aukland. Two months of island life where the cold south and the north is warm, dominated the "history" begins only around 1840, the dairy industry and that we still get no decent butter in the supermarket because all eat margarine. Is so much healthier.
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