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East of Aoraki part III - New Zealand part V
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
We've been in the eastern part of the Mount Cook National Park already during our first New Zealand trip back in 2011 and so we were pretty much looking forward to visit this awesome place again. And of course, we shouldn't be disappointed. The campground there is located in a really fantastic sorrounding and a great spot to start numerous different hikes into the beautiful montane environment. Altough the temperatures in the nights fell below zero, we were quite lucky with the weather, which provided lots of changeable, exciting and very windy conditions, but not too much rain and also lots of sunny skies. So, there was no need to hurry for us and we just stayed as long as we wanted. After that we went to Twizel again, before we headed further south.
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East of Aoraki part II - New Zealand part IV
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
As I mentioned before the current three blog postings are about our stay at Lake Pukaki and on the east side of Aoraki, New Zealand's highest Mountain. During this part of our journey we first came across Lake Tekapo, but we actually skipped it and only did a short day-stop there to spend one night at the nearby Lake Alexandrina, which is a really calm, beautiful and relaxing place. We deeply enjoyed just strolling around on the endless meadows along the mainly untouched lake. Although, compared to Lake Tekapo, Lake Alexandrina seems pretty small, it would be a quite large one here in Austria. But actually we intended to go to Lake Pukaki for a couple of days of freedom camping. Beside the endless unaffected shores and the unreal emerald waters, the east side of the lake provides a great view to the Southern Alps and Aoraki. Since we only had a small van, we went to Twizel after our freedom camping to get a shower and to buy some food, before we headed to the Mount Cook National Park at the end of the road on the west side of Lake Pukaki.
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East of Aoraki part I - New Zealand part III
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
Despite the fact, that I still have only processed parts of my New Zealand images, I would like to show a few more of the finished ones here today ... Although we had to start and finish our trip in Auckland to pick up and return our car, we wanted to go south rather quickly, because of the temperatures at this time of the year. So we caught our ferry to the south island about three days after our arrival and after we spent a few days close to Kaikoura, the area around Lake Pukaki and the east side of the Mount Cook National Park was our second intended destination. So, in my upcoming three sets of images I would like to show a handful of pictures I took in this areas. As mostly, I do not show the pictures in a chronological order and I also do not display just my favorites, I rather prefer to give you some variety and to show different parts of the places for a more overall impression. This time I decided to upload three blog entries at once. Just in case some of you might wonder, why I quite often split my entries in two or more parts ... there's a technical reason why I cannot upload more than nine images in one posting. And by the way, Aoraki is the original Māori name for Mount Cook ... just to avoid any confusion.
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