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I spent a day in Auckland since i have a transition there between my flights from Queenstown and to Melbourne.
Sadly it was mostly a rainy day. But I still got to see some nice things and I bought myself some noise-canceling headphones. Because of all the flights and well, because they’re awesome. 😀
Fire was coming out of the top of the stone just one second before i took the photo i swear!
17.04.16
Just a little video 🙂
Yesterday I flew from Queenstown to Auckland, here are some impressions of the trip 🙂
Waiting with Shirley (and Chocolate) 
Between the Clouds.
The northernmost point of the South Island
Mt. Taranaki.
Landed save in Auckland. 🙂
And here is a Time lapse of the take-off and the landing 🙂
16.04.16
Just a little Update on what I did that day, since a made a post for every day the recent week I thought this day also had the right to a post.
And although it was fun, the only two things I did that I want to share are that I was in the water with dolphins at, the realizingly cold, Curio Bay
and that I jumped from the bridge that you see in the picture below. With it’s 15 meters it was an awesome feeling and im really happy I did it Altough I was very scared at first.
I had a very fun evening in Queenstown after that, celebrating the trip we had.
15.04.16
We got up early in the morning to see the sunrise at Nugget Point, which was really amazing as you can see below. 🙂
A blowhole, but sadly the wind wasn’t strong enough.
The best, and most beautiful Coffee I had in New Zealand at the Lost Gypsy a really fun store.
Some Waterfalls 🙂
And the cathedral cave 🙂
Slope Point, the southernmost point of the South Island.
14.04.16
The next station on my trip was Owaka, a little town that is next to Nugget Point (the place with the lighthouse you see in the pictures), where the sunrise is supposed to be really be beautiful.
On the way we stopped at Tunnel beach and at the end of the day we visited cannibal beach. 
13.04.16
The Otago Peninsula was a fun place to visit, although i was a little bit disappointed at first, because you’re supposed to be able to see albatrosses and penguins and I didn’t see them.
But Allans beach was really nice and seeing some seals again was fun, they’re always look so chilled out when they’re sleeping.
12.04.16
Dunedin is one of the rare city’s in New Zealand that has something you could call architecture. 😀 I really liked seeing something like old buildings again and the Scottish style this city has is nice. Dunedin also is a city with very big height differences so drinking in it is really confusing, but the upside to this is that I could visit the steepest street in the world, according to the Guinness Book of world Records that is.
11.04.16
After Mt. Cook we made our way to Dunedin and visited the elephant Rocks and the Moeraki Boulders on the way 🙂
The pelennor fields, were most of the Lord of the Rings fight scenes were shot, weren’t that impressive.
The Elephant Rocks:
Oamaru:
Moeraki Boulders:
And here is proof that sheep are cute but dumb: 😀
Mount Cook is a stunningly beautiful mountain and the highest in New Zealand. The Road to Mount Cook from Tekapo already offers amazing views but it get’s even better in the village and especially if you do one of the hikes to a view point. I was so unbelievably happy to see some snow again 😀 and the glaciers surrounding it were also very nice to look at, although glaciers are always a little bit sad to look at because you can see where they’re supposed to be and were they are because of the climate change.
Still it was an amazing day, I took some amazing pictures and I hope you can enjoy them. 🙂
09.04.16
After Edoras I visited Tekapo, famous for it’s beautiful night sky. 
In the night I had one of the most magnificent night-skys I’ve ever seen. But sadly it was also the coldest night ever during which I slept in a tent. I was totally not equipped for frost. That was an experience I’m not planning to repeat. I never realized how much I love the comfort and luxury of my home before.
Luckily the morning after that was still nice.
08.04.16
Am siebten war ich da
wo Edoras mal war,
das haben sie zwar abgebaut,
trotzdem ha ichs mir angeschaut!
Two days ago i visited Edoras, although that they removed it all the place itself was still very impressive 🙂
Enjoy the pictures 🙂
07.04.16
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbOn Tuesday the 8th I made a wonderful trip to the Abel Tasman National Park, with a half day of Kayaking and a half day of walking back to the point I started.
I did this with a fun group of British people that singed up for the same tour as I did and at first I was a little bit scared of being in a 2-Seat Kayak if a Stranger that claimed he never kayaked before, but it turned out to be great. 😀
He really was good and did’t have any problems kayaking and in the group in total was great and we had some nice talks both in the Kayak and on the track back.
It was a totally fun day with some cool people 🙂
Zoom in to see some Seals 🙂
Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed the Pictures.
After I left Punakaki I had long Bus and Ferry Rides as I made my way from Punakaki to Nelson on the 23th, from there to Wellington on the 24th and back to Nelson on the 26th.
I went to Wellington because I could help out at the Goethe Institute on a Workshop for some German Teachers in New Zealand.
Back in Nelson I searched for I job and although that search was not a success I still had a great time there, especially in the Abel Tasman National Park, but I will write an extra article for that day, and I manged to work for food and accommodation here and there, but after some time I had enough of Nelson and traveled on to Picton, where I stayed for a week planning my trip and booking the flights back after that a had a beautiful week in the Marlborough Sounds helping out a very nice family there. Back in Picton I still wasn’t sure how I would continue my travels, but luckily a friend i med here texted me and asked if I would like to join him on a road trip around in the southern Parts of the south Island. I thought that this is a great idea so I started my way south to Christchurch, where our trip will start tomorrow.
Here are some impressions from the (too long) time since my last blog. Enjoy
(also my first video Yaaaaaaaay :D)
When i finally got out of Queenstown I continued my journey to the West Coast. There I visited Wanaka, Fox and Franz Josef Glacier and Punakaki.
Wanaka really is a nice town and in some way the nicer and friendlier version of Queenstown, but sadly its also alway booked out so i could only spend one day there.
As the West Coast is a low temperature rain Forrest, it rained. A lot. 
And in the village Fox Glacier 🙂
In the evening I went on a glowworm track which really was amazing, I saw a lot of them, but taking pictures did’t work as I have no camera that is capable of that.
The next day this this bridge sadly was closed as I tried to make my way to the Glacier without getting totally wet (Spoiler: I got totally wed…)
And sadly from the Car Park the way was closed because it was overflowed ;(
Back there you see a little bit of a Glacier.
Since I spend a nice evening in a bar with someone I med there it was a good and fun day after all (we also tried to get to the glacier together). 
The next day I decided not to go to the glacier and go to the circus instead, it was a really funny and young cast and going to a circus after many years and then to New Zealand it was really a funny experience.
After that my journey continued to Franz Josef.
And this time there was no rain and I started my way to the Glacier.
This time it actually was possible to see the glacier.
And the Landscape along the way was beautiful too.
And at the Glacier.
The view to the other side 😀
And Shirley went there with me 🙂
The views on the way back also were fantastic 🙂
Took an extra way to a view point.
The next day I left in the direction of Punakaki, there i stayed in one of the best Hostels I’ve ever been to, had a beautiful view of the sunset and a nice hike the next day before I left, naturally I visited the Pancake Rocks :).
And the Pancake Rocks 🙂
And that was my trip around the West Coast.
Queenstown is a nice City but it is one of the most touristy places in New Zealand and also one of the more expensive ones. Because our car broke we stayed there until the 17th February, or rather we decided to split up, all in a good way, because I had other things I wanted to see then the rest of the group.
Here are some expressions of my time there, a very nice place, but staying there for one and a half weeks is a bit long. And because we had to hitchhike from the free campsite to town everyday it got a little bit annoying and you could not spend the nights there because hitchhiking in the dark is not fun at all. And because Queenstown is always booked out for the next week getting a hostel sadly was not possible.
Really not that many photos because of the rather unpleasant conditions there, but i med a lot of people i have seen before or friends from back home on Germany so overall it was a good time, but also a stressful one.
The first few days of February I spend with other people I med in Picton and some more friends of them in a car traveling around the South.
We started together in Christchurch and continued to Travel South to Dunedin and from there over to Milford Sound, I already wrote an Blog for that: https://paulwbal.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/milford-sound/ and then on to Queenstown and so on, I will write extra Blog entries for that, but for now enjoy the Pictures of my Trip until then 🙂
This was the first evening together with the others in Christchurch, we had a bountiful sunset and a nice evening with people we med there.
This is taken from the Akaroa Peninsula next to Christchurch, I went swimming with Dolphins there which was a wonderful experience I sadly have no pictures of… 
The first Campsite really outside of Christchurch with this nice view and a amazing night Sky where you could see lots of stars.
A nice hiking trip to some waterfalls 🙂
And again a beautiful sunset at a nice campsite.
The next few pictures a from Oamaru, the self proclaimed “coolest city of New Zealand”, it has an European atmosphere because of the ambitions building projects of the settlers. 
The boulder Rocks.
Dunedin a nice very Scottish student city.
Driving in the Evening with this beautiful sunset, but sadly we only had to drive further because our campsite guide did not tell us that you can only sleep in cars there and that tents are not permitted. So we continued to drive in the direction of Milford Sound where a campsite was supposed to be on the way, however we were very lucky that someone noticed us as we took a break and offered us to camp in his garden, skeptical at first we accepted the offer and it turned out to be great, it was a very nice family that took us in and even allowed us to use their shower, which is a great thing after you only had the shitty ones of free campsites, if they even happen to have one. 
The next thing already was Milford Sound which i already wrote a Blog about (you find the Link above). I did’t include pictures of the others because I forget to ask them if it’s okay and now it would be kinda weird so yeah. I hope I could give you some impressions of that time and that I will get the other Blogs about my February up soon 🙂
bMilford Sound is a beautiful Fjord (Yes sadly someone was to dump to Name it (Fjord emerge from glaciers and Sounds from Rivers)) in the Fjordland of New Zealand. It’s the most easiest Fjord to access, because it’s the only one that has a road leading to it, which makes it way through a stunningly beautiful landscape. I was there two days, one day for booking it (sadly we were to late for the Kayak tour on that day, but the weather was amazing and i could take some amazing photos) and another day were we did the Kayak Tour and had a nice boat trip to the starting and ending point of the tour, the Milford Sound Discovery Center. Kayaking was a lot of fun but sadly the tour was a little bit short, the views however made up for that, even more amazing was jumping into the unusual warm water (it still were only 16 degrees but everything is better than 11 :D)
Enjoy the pictures.
And after the Tunnel
In Milford Sound (the village)
The start of the Boat Trip 🙂
And the Discovery Center with an underwater Part which is amazing, it also was the starting point of the Kayak Trip.
And that was it Thank you for reading.
I visited Milford on the 08/09.02.16 🙂
(And please tell me if you think the new design is okay :D)
I had a great few days in this nice little town on the west cost of New Zealand. The Coastal Walkway is nice, the museum in the iSite is good, but the most amazing part of my trip to Mount Taranaki! Originally I only wanted to do a a small loop track , with a nice Austrian Guy i meed in the Hostel. But on the Visitor Information Center we stumbled into two swiss people, who where going up with a super friendly older man, who was up there 693 times! Both of us thought we just have to take the chance, you don’t get that normally, to go to the top of the mountain, away from the touristic tracks and with someone that really knows his way. And, as said, it was amazing! Enjoy the pictures 😀
And then there was the Festival of Lights 😀 Where there are, well, Lights 😀
