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Travel Journals: Kaikoura, New Zealand


Kaikoura, New Zealand travel guide, information, journals, blogs, maps and photos.


flying north for summer

We've been reading more about the history of this place, and yesteray went to a film about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, so we're slowly managing to understand a bit more of the dismal past of Cambodia - although the more you learn about it the less it ...

Member: jenny
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Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello World

Well, apparently our time is nearly up and we're having to return to dear old Blighty very soon. Life's a beach, isn't it? Well it has been for us recently, anyway. We've been in Thailand for around two months now. It's the kind of place where nothi...

Member: FisherTours and BoothTravel
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The Pacific, NZ and a tiny bit of Oz

Dunedin is a nice but fairly quiet town. We found the world's steepest street - Badwin st and drove to the top and held our breath on the steep descent! Then we drove out to the Otago peninsula and visited Larnach Castle - New Zealand's only castle. ...

Member: Chris and Aine
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New Zealand 2006

27 March I got to Dunedin and lunchtime and met Phil by the train station. He is the eldest of my NZ cousins. He showed me around Dunedin and then dropped my stuff off at his home. I had a great day around the city, shopping and looking at the Scottis...

Member: alexandra
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Round the World 2005-6

From Wanaka we headed up to Franz Josef, home of the Franz Josef glacier. We stayed at a charming little backpackers called Glowworm Cottages, with fresh homemade soup served every evening. We opted to do a full day guided walk on the glacier and so ar...

Member: Peter
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New Zealand & Australia

Caught the morning ferry from Picton to Wellington, and on the TV they were showing the funeral of the Maori Queen, who died about a week ago. The Maori kingship was formed in the 1840s, when the Maoris decided they needed to unite, to better resist th...

Member: Louise
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Round the World Trip 2006/07

We arrived in La Paz on Thursday afternoon. It is absolute mayhem here! Buses, taxis, combis and people everywhere. Crossing the road is a challenge in itself. We went to an Asian restaurant for our farewell meal on Thursday night. Having not had a cur...

Member: Paul
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Australasia and South East Asia... a continuation on a toilet theme

Homogenity very much defines shopping in Thailand, and the floating market outside Bangkok was no exception. Repetitive photo album designs, countless fake Rolex's and wood-rounded candlestick holders abound, I must've seen them all in at least 50 di...

Member: Sam
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New Zealand

Our first Christmas in the southern hemisphere for all of us except Rich so we were expecting a blazing sunny day and to head into the lake. Well it was warm and after dinner Rich and I raced into the lake but more fuelled by the alcohol than the blazi...

Member: Claire and Paul
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London 1995

After a night in the upstairs room of a pub with an Australian girl called Corrina and a bottle of tequila I am smitten. She leaves a few days later to work in a pub in the Gambia. I book a ticket and fly back to Africa for the first time since leaving...

Member: Eric
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Kiiwis are priimo!

NZ, to say it short = sweet ass priimou! Arrived in Auckland where I stayed at Base Bp`s and had a priimou sanctuary girls dorm there (was almost more like a hotel more than a hostel). Wellington beats Auckland 100%! Had a great buss trip throu...

Member: funsoaker
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New Zealand 2005

The bus trip started today - nine days of travelling in an anti-clockwise direction around the South Island, from Christchurch to Christchurch via everywhere. I'm on a trip organised by Stray Travel, which is a more 'grown-up' version of the typical ba...

Member: Richard
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RTW with Steph and Dion

Written by Dion August 11-12, 2006 We decided to spend a couple of days in Uruguay, so we boarded the 9:00AM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay on Friday morning. The ferry itself was quite nice and the rid...

Member: Dion & Steph
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New Zealand and Christmas/New Year 2006

27th Making good progress, we arrived in Rotorua, the spa town right in the middle of the North Island around 4ish. This compact city is on built on the site of active volcanoes, hence the hot springs all over the place and the constant smelly of rott...

Member: Graham
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Southern Hemisphere Safari

Came down to Floriano for a weeks relaxation on the beatiful brazilian beaches! Checked into the only hostel recommended in the "book" to find we were in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of hippies in a room stinking of damp with no money! ...

Member: Lindsey
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Wish you were here?

Hi, After we left you on Monday afternoon we took a walk from our hotel down to the Tulum ruins on the beach. We didn't have the place to ourselves like at Chichen Itza unfortunately but most of the tour buses had departed. The ruins are of a Mayan...

Member: Kate and Jonny
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Round the World Trip

I know when you see the pictures of what we are wearing you will think to yourselves where can I get these outfits from? Well, I hate to dissapoint you it is not easy looking this good - Tights and shorts - gifts. boots and coats $90. Looking like comp...

Member: jonathan and bekki
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New Zealand

Well if you have got this far then its surely worth a read and a peek at the photo's. My journal for NZ is more of a day to day 'this is what i have done' as that was the nature of my trip and of course a little bit of cultural history thrown in ....Oh...

Member: Tanya
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New Zealand

9 April 07 QUEENSTOWN! Queenstown has everything an adrenaline junky could want. There is everything going on here - skydiving, bungy jumping, jet boats, paragliding, parascending, and more. We didn't do any of that today, but it's been fun! W...

Member: Charlotte and Dyce
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Summer 2000 - SE Asia & Australasia

Still having a brilliant time. In Cairns we went scuba diving and snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef which was fantastic. I also did white water rafting which was incredible, with grade 3 / 4 rapids (5 and 6 are too dangerous for man). We might do t...

Member: Claire
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Weltreise 2006

In Darwin checken wir in Chillis Backpacker Hostel ein. Unser Plan, die Westkueste entlang zu reisen, platzt innerhalb einer Minute, da zwischen Darwin und Broome alle Strassen ueberschwemmt sind und es auch zwischen Broome und Perth sieben Zyklone gab...

Member: Kati n Rob
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New Zealand & Australia '06-'07

South Island consisted of Sailing adventures in Abel Tasman, Pancake rocks, dancing on bars, Hiking up a glacier in the middle of a rainforest, Karaoke in the middle of nowhere, BUNGEE in Queenstown, Cruising Milford Sound, Stewart Island (next stop An...

Member: Terri
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Around the world...

Arriving in Dalat was a bit odd as it is right up in the Highlands and is about 10 degrees cooler than we have been used to. We had a great couple of days there. The town is pretty quiet but there are some great waterfalls and lakes in the area around ...

Member: Sarah and Ricky
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South East Asia, New Zealand & Japan 2004-5

Check out the blog and archives December 2004 and January 2005 ;o) http://lunamodule.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_lunamodule_archive.html...

Member: Luna
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Gap Year : New Zealand

It's a little over a week now since I left Whitianga. I'm currently sitting in the net cafe at Base Backpackers in Wellington on a sweaty Thursday evening with a nice cup of tea. I'm here in Wellington until Sunday morning, when I catch my flight over ...

Member: Luke
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World Backpacking Trip (Part 2) - New Zealand, Australia, Asia & Europe 2006 / 2007

Wednesday 11th April I Woke at 5am as train rattled into Hanoi. I met Aaron and Natalie at the front of the station and we took a taxi back to the same hotel, where we had breakfast because nowhere else was open before 8am. Then I took a ta...

Member: Gabrielle
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Kaikoura

Up at 6am so that we could get to the ferry terminal by 7:20am. There was a mix up about the tickets as our credit card had been charged twice so we rang them up yesterday and they said they would refund the second one. So we check in at the booth toda...

Member: Michael
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