New Zealand is hidden away from the world, floating in the Pacific Ocean where its dramatic landscape has been formed by moving tectonic plates and the country regularly gets shaken by earthquakes. This has resulted in a landscape that is rugged and unique. The mountains are sharp and tower above lakeside resorts. The Southern Alps are famous for skiing and snowboarding holidays, offering cross country terrain and big tourist resorts like Queenstown. The South island has so much to offer its visitors from Milford Sound in the south east to Abel Tasman in the north, you will have beautiful sights to explore for days on end during your trip to New Zealand.
There are great people here. Looking at the 2,000 plus posts still to be converted from my written notebook to this website, I noticed that New Zealand occupies a bigger chunk of them than I expected so condensing is required. My two visits (2007, 2010) to this disconnected country were enchanting, exhilarating, non-stop and yet over in a flash. I've written a bit about my time there before especially in the early days, but here's an easy access top 20 while I'm still young enough to remember this sort of madness.
Test out the Paragliding over Queenstown, South Island. Queenstown is the world home of the bungy jump and you have to do something crazy when you're here. I like an eclectic mix and having already bungeed and sky dived in the North Island, I felt like a bit of Paragliding was needed when I backpacked through Queenstown!
Getting Around - The roads in New Zealand are of the highest quality and this makes driving around in a car or campervan a breeze. The long winding corners and dramatic mountain passes make driving around New Zealand a great experience. Alternatively you could jump on a bus by one of the many tourism operators, or stick out your thumb and hitch a ride! This is a very common practice throughout the country, thanks to the friendly people you should not be waiting to long for a lift.
Head on the Glow Worms Trek, Franz Josef Township, South Island. On my second visit to New Zealand, I headed to the west side of the South Island and ended up in Franz Josef for a few nights. In here I met some cool people over dinner including Natali and Alex (from Israel) and we decided to do our own night time glow worm trek. I organised it and we headed with torches on a dodgy walk through the rain on what was a great night where we saw glow worms and got free shots in the bar (thanks to me finding some coupons in the hostel!).
Go higher than the mountains and try Sky Diving in Lake Taupo, North Island. This still ranks as one of the craziest things I have done to date, the day I sky dived over Lake Taupo. I remember all the details of a mad day in Taupo. We got up early, limosine from the hostel and it was Les, David and I in the same mini pink plane and with the luscious backpacker Stacie Jayne in the plane before us. We all had a great time and then toured a place called Craters of the Moon and Huka Falls afterwards. We had a mad night out on the rip that night too, winning a pub quiz, getting naked for free drinks all night. It was a night I won't forget and I left my dreams hanging around in Lake Taupo.
Eating a Fergburger, South Island is another top sight. I'm probably surprising most of my regular readers with this list as there are so many mainstream popular memories on here. But remember - these times were back in 2007 and 2010 when I was a younger backpacker. In those days, I was trying to save cash left, right and centre and this meant following the cheap backpacker routes most of the time. Besides, there is no food on the list yet and the Fergburger is great so why not?!
Head out to the amazing Pohutu Geysir in Rotorua in the north island. It's an experience you will never forget. For a travelling Northern Irishman I loved it.
There are great people here. Looking at the 2,000 plus posts still to be converted from my written notebook to this website, I noticed that New Zealand occupies a bigger chunk of them than I expected so condensing is required. My two visits (2007, 2010) to this disconnected country were enchanting, exhilarating, non-stop and yet over in a flash. I've written a bit about my time there before especially in the early days, but here's an easy access top 20 while I'm still young enough to remember this sort of madness.
Test out the Paragliding over Queenstown, South Island. Queenstown is the world home of the bungy jump and you have to do something crazy when you're here. I like an eclectic mix and having already bungeed and sky dived in the North Island, I felt like a bit of Paragliding was needed when I backpacked through Queenstown!
Getting Around - The roads in New Zealand are of the highest quality and this makes driving around in a car or campervan a breeze. The long winding corners and dramatic mountain passes make driving around New Zealand a great experience. Alternatively you could jump on a bus by one of the many tourism operators, or stick out your thumb and hitch a ride! This is a very common practice throughout the country, thanks to the friendly people you should not be waiting to long for a lift.
Head on the Glow Worms Trek, Franz Josef Township, South Island. On my second visit to New Zealand, I headed to the west side of the South Island and ended up in Franz Josef for a few nights. In here I met some cool people over dinner including Natali and Alex (from Israel) and we decided to do our own night time glow worm trek. I organised it and we headed with torches on a dodgy walk through the rain on what was a great night where we saw glow worms and got free shots in the bar (thanks to me finding some coupons in the hostel!).
Go higher than the mountains and try Sky Diving in Lake Taupo, North Island. This still ranks as one of the craziest things I have done to date, the day I sky dived over Lake Taupo. I remember all the details of a mad day in Taupo. We got up early, limosine from the hostel and it was Les, David and I in the same mini pink plane and with the luscious backpacker Stacie Jayne in the plane before us. We all had a great time and then toured a place called Craters of the Moon and Huka Falls afterwards. We had a mad night out on the rip that night too, winning a pub quiz, getting naked for free drinks all night. It was a night I won't forget and I left my dreams hanging around in Lake Taupo.
Eating a Fergburger, South Island is another top sight. I'm probably surprising most of my regular readers with this list as there are so many mainstream popular memories on here. But remember - these times were back in 2007 and 2010 when I was a younger backpacker. In those days, I was trying to save cash left, right and centre and this meant following the cheap backpacker routes most of the time. Besides, there is no food on the list yet and the Fergburger is great so why not?!
Head out to the amazing Pohutu Geysir in Rotorua in the north island. It's an experience you will never forget. For a travelling Northern Irishman I loved it.
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