A day of exploration! We took a shuttle bus to Franz Josef car park and walked four different tracks at the base camp around the glacier. The first one was a track to the bottom of a valley and where the beginning of the glacier tour was, really massive and we only saw the end of the glacier. Then we walked two other shorter tracks where you could see the glacier from different angels and the final track was to a lake called Lake Wombat. The way up to the lake...

The early mornings continues. Today we got up around 6am to get ready for our pick up from the hostel to the railway station. We took a alpine train from Christchurch to Greymouth, a railway that's in the top six if the worlds most beautiful railways. And it was really majestic and beautiful with all the mountains close by, gorges, lakes, streams and bridges. We arrived around 1pm and our bus left at 1.30pm so we didn't have much time to find some good food, s...