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on the way from Taupo to Rotorua you drive on the 'thermal highway'. The earth's crust is made up of a patchwork of interlocking plates. Here on the northern island of New Zealand the edge of the indian-australian plate is pressing on top of the pacific...

ok, I had to leave New Zealand in a few days when I came to Taupo. And something was itching ... I was looking forward to going home, but there was something not done yet. And this is what I did: I survived !

Back to the northern islands - 920 km. The right time to leave Queenstown, because they expect snow in a 2 weeks time ... church of the Good Shepard at lake Tekapo a very popular setting for picture-taking the very blue water is made of rockdust grinded...

Queenstown from Bobs Peak and here on Bobs Peak is the Skyline Luge they say the Skyline Luge is a fun filled gravity ride ... And this are Heidi and Fabian having a fun filled gravity ride :-) no denial - in New Zealand autumn is on it's way, it's getting...

Fox-Glacier looks like the Alps with cattle in front - no, it's the Southern Alps in New Zealand Lake Matheson If I turned the picture upside down - would you know it? Mount Aspiring NP This very old bus - it got us around the southern island, no kidding....

this is a very special experience: heli-hiking to the Franz Josef glacier means: you'll go on top of the glacier by helicopter and there you walk for 2 hours on the glacier with cramps on your feet. How do we imagine the surface of a glacier - flat and...

Beautiful New Zealand ... the southern island has a variety of impressions for you. In my next articles you'll find beautiful nature in very different kinds. For instance Abel Tasman: The Abel Tasman Coastal Treck is one of the great walks in NZ of the...

After the volunteering work around Auckland two other volunteers and myself decided to go to the southern island of New Zealand traveling around on a 'Hop on hop off'-bus. From Christchurch north - Kaikoura with Sealife, Picton and Nelson with famous...

We spent our second volunteering week in the Waipoua-Forest, 3 hrs-drive north of Auckland. It was all about Kauri-Trees. Real giants of the forest ... The Ranger Stephen is very passionate about the vision of conservation: restoring the old flora and...

what is this ? ???? May be this helps: Danger - sharks ... ... ... ... ... ... ... oh, no, these are not sharks, they are fun swimming with the dolphins in the bay of islands Champagner-breakfast in Pahia, Bay of Islands with Thomas (bavarian, a language...