Before boarding the ship to Antarctica, I just had to go for a hike before being mainly confined to the sip the next 10 days. In my hiking guide to Patagonia I found one hike that starts right in Ushuaia and is feasible in half a day as I have to board the ship at…
Ushuaia. Beautiful Fin del Mundo.
Buenos Aires doesn’t want me to leave (although I really do want!). My flight was scheduled pretty early but we have to get back out, wait and finally board another plane. The service on Aerolinas Argentinas is horrendous, they don’t check on fastened seatbelts, don’t close the lockers and food is very limited. At least…
Three days in Buenos Aires.
After some 11h flight from Auckland to Buenos Aires (with wonderful Air New Zealand where I managed to watch 4 movies but not to sleep), I am proceeding real fast through immigration, luggage pick up and even after pushing the taxes button it shows green so I can just walk through. I want to change…
Dunedin and Christchurch. Two cities in two days.
After our rest day in Invercargill, Peggy and I head to Dunedin by bus, arriving at lunch time at our cool Hogwartz hostel. After a coffee we go explore the town, following the Street Art Trail. Dunedin has such a variety of buildings just next to each other and the atmosphere can change within a…
Invercargill to Bluff. This is the end.
Day 133. Invercargill – Bluff. 36km. Total 3000km. I couldn’t sleep much last night. Was I too excited? Very tired I get up at 6am. We want to have enough time to celebrate and start early again. The sun is just coming out as we walk through Invercargill back to the trail. The first 10km are…
Done.
This is the end of the toughest, longest but best journey of my life. 3000km. 133 days. 3 pairs of shoes. At least 100l of mud. Uncountable awesome moments, stunning views, amazing people (including my incredible blog readers). I am proud, happy and sad. A big chapter is over. But: Every ending is the start of something new! More…
Colac Bay to Invercargill. Beach again!
Day 131. Colac Bay – Oreti Beach. 27km. Total 2947km. Today we can take it slowly and start late. We won’t hike too far today and enjoy a lazy breakfast. I am completely out of food now, it’s really time for resupply in Riverton, our lunch stop. From our campsite we walk to the beach,…
Woodlaw Forest to Colac Bay. Back into the bush, mud and a night at a summit.
Day 129. End of Woodlaw Forest – Longwood Summit. 36km. Total 2886km. I love tenting in pine woods. Everything is dry in the morning and quickly packed up. We leave around 7.30am and are soon out of the forest to see the beautiful light just after the sunrise. After some farmland it’s a 3.5km road…
Te Anau to Woodlaw Forest. Heat and sunshine, summer has arrived!
Day 126. Te Anau – Princhester Road – Aparima Hut. 22km. Total 2794km. A beautiful day without any clouds is waiting for us this morning. At 7am we are back at the road, with more hitchhiking luck hopefully. But it takes time. After half an hour a woman in a campervan stops and tells us…
Te Anau and stunning Milford Sound. Off-trail.
Day 124. Te Anau. 0km. Total 2772km. Off-trail. Spending a very relaxing day in Te Anau, reading, watching a DVD, washing, walking around to a bird sanctuary and along Lake Anau and of course: eating! Day 125. Te Anau – Milford Sound -Te Anau. 0km on trail. Today we will be driven around, in a…
Queenstown to Te Anau. Back into the mud!
Day 121. Queenstown – Taipo Hut. 24km. Total 2700km. Party Queenstown kept me awake during the night with a lot of music and party going on just in front of the YHA, not easy to sleep if you are used to quiet huts in the wilderness! Today we have a shuttle picking us up at…
Roses Hut to Queenstown. Frozen x 3.
Day 119. Roses Hut – Arrowtown. 23km. Total 2648km. Frozen. Today we start a bit later, we will walk through a river and if we start early it will be even colder. Later means actually that we start at 7.30am, seems we are just ready anyway! One more saddle of more than 1200m to…
Hello Mountains 