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Santuario de la Naturaleza

February 22, 2015August 10, 2016 Let it go

After two late nights in a row, and only falling asleep at 6 am in the morning, I still peeled myself out of bed at 9 something, hit the shower and then the metro, to meet up with Hannah and her Colleagues of Beyond English. Beyond English is a social enterprise that provides English lessons […] Read More

Sunset on Table Mountain

December 12, 2014August 4, 2016 Let it go

Tired as hell from the sleepless night, and the packing and everything, I felt I still needed to do something nice with the rest of the day, so at 5pm I decided to head up to Table Mountain to watch the sunset over the ocean. A bus gets you up to the cable car station, […] Read More

On top of it all

October 19, 2014August 4, 2016 Let it go

There’s one tourist attraction that every visitor in Hong Kong seems to have to do: take the cable car up the steep hill and enjoy the view over Hong Kong and the harbor from Victoria Peak, or simply: the Peak. I went there on a Sunday, which might have been a bad idea, but as […] Read More

MTL from above

July 18, 2014August 4, 2016 Let it go

After over three weeks, I finally made it to the place that gave Montréal its name: Mont Royal, the mountain and park in the middle of the city. It is more a forest than a park, and a real mountain, rising quite steep. Lazy me took a bus halfway up, and then walked over to […] Read More

Wrapping up

March 31, 2014August 4, 2016 Let it go

This morning I woke up to a light rain, and decided I hit the road straight away back to Queenstown. The drive was surprisingly fast and smooth, funny how a road always seems shorter when you travel it the second time. I was in Queenstown around 1pm, checked in, and would have had enough time […] Read More

Milford Sound

March 30, 2014August 4, 2016 Let it go

Up early in the morning (around 8!) and after a quick stop to get a Latte, on the road to drive the 120 kilometers to Milford Sound, or Piopiotahi in Māori, after the piopio bird, which is now extinct. It really is at the end of it all. Funnily, two days ago I was just about […] Read More

Fjordland

March 29, 2014August 4, 2016 Let it go

The weather was quite grey in Queenstown, I wasn’t up for a lake tour, so I decided to take the scenic drive along Lake Wakatipu to Glenorchy. Glenorchy is supposed to be a cute town at the end of the lake, basically at the end of all paved roads there. Actually, the road only exists […] Read More

On to Queenstown

March 28, 2014August 4, 2016 Let it go

I got up early (e.g. 9am) because I had nearly 300 kilometers to drive to Queenstown. The lovely hosts of my Burkes Pass Motel gave me a couple of tips. So many in fact that I could easily drive on another two weeks, to cover that. Why read a 500 page Lonely Planet? Just ask […] Read More

Canterbury

March 25, 2014August 4, 2016 Let it go

So many names here in New Zealand remind me of Britain, of course. I understand the settlers wanted to remember the home they left, but it’s also somewhat weird. I can’t really think that they were reminded by the landscape…? With those high mountains? I drove from Kaikoura to Christchurch today, taking the scenic Alpine Pacific […] Read More

Heaven and Hell

March 19, 2014August 4, 2016 Let it go

I slept like a baby after the evening in the Polynesian Spa, ready to start the day in Rotorua… But somehow, I was undecided what to see, the thermal pods in the park, the Lake, the Māori site with the Geysir… I walked a bit along the lake and through those sulfur and steam vents… but […] Read More

On top

February 8, 2014August 4, 2016 Let it go

I’m so glad I got the car. Driving is really ok, she windscreen wiping problem persists, but is under control. So I drove up the mountain, all the way to the top. Ok, I could have hiked. But it was 30 degrees. And I’ll keep that for the trip that my sister is already planning, […] Read More