Travel ideas for New Zealand – trip tips and recommendations from my experiences travelling in and living in New Zealand. This southern hemisphere country has beautiful landscapes, attractive cities, rich cultural traditions and a laidback lifestyle. Here you will find exciting travel ideas for travelling in New Zealand so start planning your trip now and experience everything that New Zealand has to offer travellers.
2015 was my second year on Instagram and looking back over the images is a very satisfying review of a fantastic year of travel, with lifelong bucket list items ticked off and loads of family and personal fun along the way. Here are my most popular Instagram travel posts from […]
You only have a few weeks’ vacation each year and you want to make the most of them right? You want to tick off incredible travel destinations from your bucket list and come back with gorgeous photos. You want to vacation in the most picturesque places on earth! Well here […]
Before I hiked the Milford Track we were staying in Queenstown and I wanted to do a big day walk as a last preparation/test before heading off to Fiordland. I found the perfect day hike in the Moonlight Track. The start of the Moonlight Track is at the Skyline so […]
The ranger’s warnings from the night before proved prescient and at 6am she was knocking on the bunkroom doors telling us to pack up and get moving. Day Four of the Milford Track takes you from Dumpling Hut to Sandfly Point. At 18 kilometres it is the longest day by distance but […]
Welcome back to my day-by-day account of hiking the Milford Track in New Zealand‘s amazing Fiordland National Park. Day Three of the Milford Track takes you from Mintaro Hut to Dumpling Hut, covering 14 kilometres and taking between six and seven hours. In the morning a few Kea parrots turned […]
Continuing my day-by-day account of tramping the Milford Track in New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park… Day two covers 16.5 kilometres from Clinton Hut to Mintaro Hut and takes about six hours. In the morning it was a misty start, with a slight drizzle hanging around since the early hours. We […]
As promised, here begins my day-by-day account of tramping (the New Zealand world for hiking) the world’s finest hike: the Milford Track in New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park. Day one involves only five kilometres of walking between Glade Wharf and Clinton Hut, which takes approximately one hour. Day One starts with the 1pm […]
I can now agree wholeheartedly with those who rate the Milford Track as the finest hike in the world. It is beautiful. So beautiful. It is also a nicely balanced walk, with a slow build up to the big day crossing the pass and then a gentle finish. Fiordland National […]
I did it! I hiked the Milford Track, rated by many as the finest hike in the world. After all my concerns about hiking in New Zealand, particularly that I would struggle with carrying a pack it was just fine. I felt strong and coped well with the physical challenges […]