Leaving New Zealand - South Island

On the south island, I visited the Abel Tasman National Park first, it it was really worth it. Due to the fact that I have a rental car in the moment and love to eat my Burger King in New Zealand, I thought I would gain weight, but I do walk a lot. The walk in Abel Tasman was a 6 hour walk. From there I drove to the Franz Joseph Glacier. And again I did a 6 hour hike up the bloody glacier with full gear and spikes.

I continued on to Queenstown, where I did some rafting down the Kawarau River. If you do any of this adventure stuff, you really have to spend money. The hiking trip up the glacier and rafting is abt. 80 Euro each.

With my lovely rental car I continued on via the Milford Sound to Dunedin and Christchurch.
Today I renturned my car and I managed to drive close to 5000 km with that car on the left side.

The next couple of days I will take a few flights to cross over to Australia and I will fly a loop via Ayers Rock to Melbourne in order to start from Melbourne to Cairns again overland. I still have to decide if I will take a rental car again.

06.03.2008 Christchurch - Aukland
07.03.2008 Aukland - Sydney - Ayers Rock
09.03.2008 Ayers Rock - Cairns
10.03.2008 Cairns - Brisbane - Melbourne

Franz Joseph Glacier - South Island New Zealand