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Travel stories from Wanaka

Collection of 26 travel stories from Wanaka, New Zealand. Written by your friends on the road.

Picture from story Christchurch - Bye bye New Zealand

Christchurch - Bye bye New Zealand
2008-06-19, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: juchem

Today is my last day in New Zealand, I'd tried to go skiing again, but as you can see, the bad weather doesn't allow to do it again! At least I saw the falling snow, I ate some of them and I had a nic...

 
Picture from story Queenstown and Dunedin

Queenstown and Dunedin
2008-06-14, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: juchem

In Queenstown I've tried to Ski and do Snowboarding, but again, the bad weather changed my plans and I came to Dunedin, the best New Zealand city until now! In Christchurch I'll try to ski again! Uhuu...

 
Picture from story Franz Josef Glacier and Wanaka

Franz Josef Glacier and Wanaka
2008-06-12, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: juchem

Continuing in the way to explore New Zealand, I've been to the Glacier and Wanaka, on the way to Queenstown, which is a Brazilian city in New Zealand! I think half of the population are Brazilian here...

 
Picture from story Cock a doodle ski!

Cock a doodle ski!
2008-02-22, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: ronnieed

0830 water skiing time. We met our skipper Mark at the boat ramp and we were on the water before Ronnie could properly wake up. Ed went first and after failing again to wake board handed over to Ronni...

 
Picture from story Golf with a rugby ball shaped…ball plus a cinema trip to remember.

Golf with a rugby ball shaped…ball plus a cinema trip to remember.
2008-02-21, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: ronnieed

Today we have a whole day in Wanaka to do as we please. Ideas for the day came in thick and fast. Suggestions included table tennis, water skiing, nothing, or get drunk. With the sun beating down like...

 
Picture from story Purple cows and ping pong.

Purple cows and ping pong.
2008-02-20, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: ronnieed

Long time no update. Greetings all and welcome to Wednesday. Today we depart from the icy wonderland of Fox Glacier and head to the chilled out retreat of Wanaka (named after the lake it sits next to)...

 
Picture from story 21st August

21st August
2007-08-21, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: amy4rory

Hey guys Today we went for a hour walk to 50 meters away from the glacier! The scenery was very different. The glacier was massive, it was like the size of millions of effel towers!!!! We could see...

 
Picture from story Redrock!

Redrock!
2007-03-31, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: cherryloo

We left Franz Josef very early and made our way south on the Kiwi bus. Our driver Andy told us that the early start would soon pay off once we reached Lake Matheson. He was right about this - the mi...

 
Picture from story Devils Road

Devils Road
2007-01-10, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: AnitaS

We rejoined Kate and Felicity by driving to Glenorchy and picking them up from their 3 day hike of the Routburn Track. Was a very windy road, narrow lanes and I’m completely over one way bridges! Pi...

 
Picture from story Sky dive!

Sky dive!
2007-02-15, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: wilsol01

We'd been talking about doing a sky dive ever since we got to Oz and had just been putting it off really. Every time we got somewhere we could do it we did something else or someone said there was a ...

 
Picture from story A Back Again...

A Back Again...
2007-02-04, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: krispy

I was given the chance to go back down to Wanaka this weekend to visit my friends for the last time while they are on their outreach. It was an AMAZING time, and I am so thankful for the opprotunity. ...

 
Traveler gareth

Second First Cousin Revisited
2007-01-19, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: gareth

It was a real treat to be able to get up, walk a few metres and dive straight into Lake Wakatipu for a wakening shock. I didn’t do this, but just knowing I could have was a real treat as I waited for ...

 
Picture from story The Wanaka Experience

The Wanaka Experience
2007-01-21, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: krispy

After a day and a half back at the base Beny and I headed out for the 5 hour drive down to Wanaka. We worked in the office for the morning and beginning of the afternoon, and then we scrambled around ...

 
Traveler lethal

Weekend in Wanaka
2006-09-05, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: lethal

During the DTS I was also able to go to Wanaka to visit the Light House Church. It is a very inovative Church set up very loosly like a House Church. A completely free dinner is served before church...

 
Picture from story The easiest way to forget about Love is Sex….

The easiest way to forget about Love is Sex….
2006-12-03, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: lyndz

They my friends are the words of wisdom that are slapped all over the rear of our camper van, Free Love is its name and by god it’s getting some attention! So, we are now into our 4th day of living...

 
Traveler drooms

Off to Cardrona
2006-07-21, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: drooms

Hi, This last week we have been looking for a different and cheaper place to stay and guess what we found one. It is just 2km away from the cardrona mountain, but on the other side a little bit sit...

 
Traveler drooms

Cold but Beautiful
2006-07-17, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: drooms

Hello, Yesterday we arrived in Wanaka. The flight over to here was magnificant. The views were stunning while flying over the southern alps. Up until landing in Queenstown we havn't felt real w...

 
Picture from story Kiwi-ski

Kiwi-ski
2006-07-04, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: andrewjeff

After flying from Auckland to Christchurch, we boarded our small Beechcraft 1900D plane (a 19-seater) to Wanaka, which is a very small airport. It has only been used for private aircraft, but Air New...

 
Picture from story Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso
2006-05-12, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: archandfi

We picked up our first hitch-hiker at Fox and he joined us for the steep and windy road over the hills to Wanaka, stopping to admire some waterfalls and coastal cliffs on the way. We arrived in wanaka...

 
Traveler jeffhilton

The deep south - part 2
2006-04-07, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: jeffhilton

One of the impressive things about the west cost of New Zealand's south island is how much the scenery changes. Driving south you can have ocean views to your right and lake and mountain views to your...

 
Picture from story Faith Week: Day 6

Faith Week: Day 6
2006-03-02, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: gmatero

Day 6 We woke up and packed up our things getting ready to leave for hitch hiking to Wanaka. Ross had to come back to the house to pick up Jay for work and they were going to drop us off at a good ...

 
Traveler savster

notes from the south island
2005-01-15, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: savster

well the weather has changed for the good and it is now a proper new zealand summer,it is real nice.so we are now in wanaka in the south island about an hour north of queenstown.it is so spectacular,t...

 
Picture from story Mountains at last!

Mountains at last!
2004-11-03, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: rossa

Back to travelling on my own today. I've come further South to Wanaka. The bus journey, over the Southern Alps was, I have to say it, awesome!! Finally was able to see blue skies and snow-covered moun...

 
Traveler khart

A bus, a sausage and some mountains
2004-01-11, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: khart

Yesterday was my last day in Queesntown and I went on a tour of Milford Sound. I managed to drag myself out of bed at some ungodly hour (7am! The days of getting up before 6am are but a distant memor...

 
Traveler Flyin_Scot

West Coast Wanderer
2003-01-23, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: Flyin_Scot

Wondering down the West Coast After departing Nelson, the first stop was at Kaiteriteri, near the Abel Tasman National PArk for some sea kayaking, about 20 of us set out from the buses, great c...

 
Picture from story Hitchhiking for Wool

Hitchhiking for Wool
2002-09-08, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: sbirch

On my bus trip to the next town it was raining really hard and there were waterfalls, sometimes every 100 feet, major falls running from the top of the mountains all the way down to the road and beyon...

 


 
 

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