Category: New Zealand

What Wikipedia says about the Rudyard Kipling proclaimed 8th Wonder of the World: With a mean annual rainfall of 6,813 mm on 182 days a year, a high level even for the West Coast, Milford Sound is known as the wettest inhabited place in New Zealand and one of the wettest in the world. So we were mentally prepared for a fairly wet kayaking experience which we had to book many weeks in advance. And the evening…

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What do people expect from NZ? What did I expect? Loneliness, a beautiful, natural and untouched setting? What did I get? Well kinda exactly that, but I was still truly fascinated by it. And then there’s so much more, too, like the kindness of the locals, the overpriced everything, the false promises of extreme sport experiences and all their young followers, the spare wildlife, etc etc. The Routeburn Track sums up the best of the…

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