Saturday, 26 March 2011

Our adventures on the South Island

Here are our latest NZ-pictures - from the beautiful South Island. I hope the pictures can give you an impression of how amazing the nature here is.

Nelson

Swingbridge


Pancake rocks
Brewery

Glaciers


Queenstown
Jürgen's Bungee-Jump:


Jetboat trip:




Te Anau and around
The Catlins

Open Farm Day


Dunedin
Rob Turney's Farm

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Our last days on the North Island

Here are a few pics from our last activities on the North Island, the highlight probably being the visit of the "Golden Shear" sheep-shearing competition!

Oakura and New Plymouth
On the way
Palmerston North
Golden Shear
Martinborough
Wellington
Ferry

And here are videos from the Golden Shear:















Sunday, 20 March 2011

Wedding paper

This edition of Nature weddings features the marriage of Jacki and Ashley!

Here is the article:



























Thursday, 10 March 2011

English is not so afoch?!

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Wednesday, 9 March 2011

A few movies for you!

Maori dance at Whakarewarewa Thermal Village


How to start a Geysir






Vulcano-Hiking

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Our tour North of Auckland















On our first tour outside of Auckland, we headed north and saw some great landscapes:

Goat Island
On the Way
Mhangarei Heads
Our first Backpacker's: The Little Earth Lodge
The Abbey Caves were close to it, so we thought we can just go there - we did not expect to climb down in actual caves, completely on our own!

Kleines Special für unsere Agro-Fans

The Whangarei Falls: Our travel guide names these falls the "Paris Hilton" amongst NZ waterfalls - the most photographed one, but by far not the most impressing one!

The Hundertwasser Loo: Who would have thought we would use a loo here that was designed by an Austrian architect?! Well, Hundertwasser lived here in NZ for a long time and is also burried here.

The Hurara Falls


Overnight cruise on "The Rock": This was one of the experiences where we had most fun so far. We stayed on this huge house boat (was a car ferry before) over night. We did all kind of activities as you will see on the pics ...

Cape Reinga: The (almost) most Northern point of NZ. The Maori believe, here's the point where souls "go over" to live after live.

Great experiences were the impressive Kauri trees in Waipaua Kauri Forest and the Kauri Museum.

After this trip we returned to Auckland for a few days, then went on to Coromandel Peninsula - pics follow soon!