Nouvelle Zelande 6-27/03 De Christchurch a Auckland

Bonjour a tous et Joyeuses Paques!

Nouvelle experience, facon de voyager, moyen de transport....3 semaines a vadrouiller en Nouvelle Zelande a bord de notre van plutot...."super funky"...que d'aventures!
Concernant l'itineraire, nous avons atterrit a Christchurch dans l'Ile du Sud et avons passe 2 semaines dans le Sud a parcourir des centaines/miliers(?) de kilometres pour decouvrir la magie de la nature Neo Zelandaise.
Certains endroits m'ont fait penser aux paysages Irlandais (en plus montagneux biensur!).
Donc montagnes, lacs, glaciers, rivieres....un endroit de reve pour les amoureux de la nature! Nous sommes devenus de vrais champions de la rando: en montagne, au bord des lacs, dans les forets....
Il y a biensur 1000 autres activites (Saut a l'elastique, en parachute, peche, kayak, alpinisme...................) mais financierement il faut pouvoir assumer!!
Nous avons commence part un petit village pres de Christchurch a la "touch" tres Frenchie, vraiment trop mignon ce petit village qui cultive le mode de vie a la Francaise, on y trouve meme des pains au chocolat et des croissants! La classe!
Apres la petite parenthese Europeene, une petite rando au bord du Lac Wanaka en route pour le sommet du Mont Cook....autre rando de 6 ou 7h pour observer le sommet du Mont Cook!
Et puis...Queenstown, Milford Sound, Lac Te Anau, Glenorchy (Lieu de tournages de certaines scenes de Lord of the Ring), le glacier Fox, le parc national Abel Tasman...marche, marche et marche!
Le 20/03, nous avons pris le Ferry et sommes arrives a Wellington dans l'Ile du Nord! Petite visite du centre ville (super musee gratuit sur la culture Maori) puis direction le parc national Tongario pour notre derniere rando!
Aujourd'hui nous sommes au Lac Taupo, avons passe la journee a ...ne rien faire...lessive, flaner en ville, internet...
Nous pensons partir des demain pour Roturoa puis finir notre sejour sur Auckland.

Avant notre depart pour Roturoa, le 24 Mars, jour de l´anniversaire de mon homme, nous avons experimente l´experience la plus folle et sensationnelle de notre vie: un saut en parachute a 3660m d´altitude, 45 secondes de chute libre....il n y a pas de mots pour exprimer les sensations....c´etait..inoubliable et quelquechose que je referais volontiers!

-3 jours avant notre arrivee au Chili!!!!!!!!!!


Hi Guys,
Happy Easter to everyone! Hope you had a good time during that long week end.
Greetings from NZ! Great great place and great experience for us! We rented a campervan for the 3 weeks and drove around the South and North Island,
we really enjoyed the freedom and independence of having our own transport!
We visited so many places that it would be too much to describe every single one!
Basically, if you are fond of mountains, lakes, rivers, volcanos, wildlife...plus 1000 of other crazy activities.. you have find your dream place!
We spent our time trekking! As the Kiwis said, tramping... anyway..we did walk a lot! We really enjoyed the different sceneries like lakes, glaciers, forests, mountains... some parts really reminded me Ireland (...less flat though!)
So we started in Christchurch and will end up in Auckland!
On the way, we drove to Bank Peninsula to visit a very cute little village named Akaora, famous for cruises to admire wildlife but also for the French atmosphere of this tiny place! Afterwards, we did some trekking in the Lake Tekapo, in the Mount Cook, drove to Queenstown, went to Milford Sound for an amazing cruise, walked to admire Fox Glaciers, trekked in Abel Tasman National Park in the north of the South Island, swam in the Lake Wanaka( "feckin'" freezing like!)....So many things and places..it's hard to describe them...
On the 20/03, we took the Ferry from the South to the North Island, arrived in Wellington where we spent the afternoon (great free museum!), drove to the famous Tongario National park the next day, did a little walk to get ready for a bigger trekk the next day! And today, we're in Lake Taupo, haven't done much today so far (it's 8PM here so....) did our Laundry, took a shower, and we re updating the blog so...not a bad day!
On the 24th of March, my Man´s birthday! we experienced skydive (his birthday present!), 12000 feet, 45 second of freefall...a crazy and unforgettable experience!See his pictures, they are great!
See ya all!