We arrived in Franz Josef another sunny day luckily and booked staight onto the trip to walk the glacier. The Franz Josef Glacier is the steepest and fastest moving glacier in the world and the walk ensures amazing views of the terrain. The unusual combination of rain forest and the mighty river of ice in such close proximity is unique to glaciers in this region. We got kitted out with boots and spikes to enable us to walk on the ice and coats trousers etc to kee...

We arrived in Queenstown and were plesantly surprised as we expected in to be a huge big town, it is larger than some of the places that we have visited but still a small quaint place. It would be fabulous to visit there in winter covered in snow, it's really popular with skiers and all the bars are set up with great big log fires etc. Its full of adrenalin sports and there is loads of different things that you can do we were going to look at doing the tamdem bu...

We left Twizel and set off in the snow to Milford Sound! Luckily the snow cleared up and the weather beacame fine again as it too two days to drive to Milford Sounds it is right at the bottom the south island. Milford Sound is a fjiord in Fiordland National Park & World Heritage Park. It is currently judged the top travel destination in an international survey and is New Zealands most famous tourist destination, it has also been called the 8th wonder of the w...

Hi everyone hope all is well back at home and everyone is good. We picked up the campervan from the rental place and were really pleased as it was the same as the one we had had in Australia a high top which is really spacious and plenty of room. The first night we set off we parked up right by the sea and stayed there the night it was great waking up literally on the beach. We set off heading for Mt Cook which is the largest mountain in New Zealand. The weather...

Kia Ora! from Christchurch. We left for the airport at 4.30am there was loads of people all still in the pubs and everything when we left, we got the train to the airport it was raining in Sydney and had been for the last two days! Had a bit of a windy flight to Christchurch but it was just over 2 hours it flew by (get it flew by ha ha). Touch down we were really surprised that the sun was blazing a lovely surprise! Arrived at the hostel again a good choice nice...