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glacier Leaving to head to Queenstown. This city is known worldwide as the capital of extreme sports and adventure. The truth is that the surrounding environment invites to spend all day doing outdoor activities. It is located near a large lake (Lake Wakatipu) and has the background a beautiful Mountains originally called "Remarkable Mountains, also passed by those mountains Frodo and his ... for most of NZ.



Around Queenstown is the bridge where he made the first jump of "bungee jumping" of history. We visited and had a good time watching people jump around kinds of styles, from the girl's Olympic photo even some that fell like sacks. We were pleasantly surprised to see so many girls jumping ... in fact for the fourth time we spent there we only saw two guys ... and one pit!



Since we planned our trip to New Zealand we knew we were going to have to make a decision regarding the number of activities to be performed. With the rental car and pal gasofa baby, we were not very loose as to squander. Pequenho In a crisis committee, we decided it was best to choose the most canhera of all activities for that throw to the other and so would pass into the background so ...

With a couple, we signed a "Skydiving" I think the best translation is free fall from height of 12000 feet (3600 meters) ... we Quee, jumped from an airplane!! INCREIIIIBLEEEE was I amazed, looking at the tranquility of Marta (making jokes and all) as he rose to the height of the aircraft arrival at the three ... well, six and that the jump was a tandem and we had our "Master" stuck the respective hump ... actually nine because, pa once you jump off a plane in flight, it is better to have the graphic story in full, so I also had a camera for everyone. As the plane was not a Boeing, we were more apretao that sardines. Top

us you have to the three musketeers dressed in the costume in which they stick to the jump. Below left, Martinha at the time of jump, and right, myself on a banana as we had explained on the ground.



be thinking .... cheap, cheap, no? Of course not, but certainly it was worth. You really have three activities in one: first the rise in aircraft seeing the sights of the city (15 minutes), then free fall (40 seconds) ... 40 seconds long but they seem, have the brain feeling drunk, you're falling to almost 200 km / h, you look a little curvature of the earth, we think that only I put back the hair like hooks. To conclude, the parachute deployed and the heart pounding, a little calm down and widescreen (15 minutes).

We have many photos and above all, the most cool, a DVD and you will see when we return. The company was super-professional and the truth is that a lot Lo Curro. As an appetizer here you have the nose of our aircraft and a modern shepherd Quaderizado "that frightened the sheep from the runway ... we were starting from laughter to see him leave fuck out when he approached the plane.



Below you have a superwoman Martinha giving everything in his jump, too many words:





Below I am, with the face of movie, and pasandomelo as a dwarf. Once again a picture is worth more quee ...





After the adrenaline rush that we had in the body, decided to celebrate and even have a curious copichuela a bar in the center of the city .. . is called "Minus 5" ... for sabioncillos, if it is a bar where everything is ice from the floor, walls, even the own drinks ... keep it between 5 and 10 degrees below zero permanently. I offered a cocktail of vodka during the 20 minutes of the visit ... did not really want to be more ... that pellets! (In the picture you have to Marta and Javier with two friends that we made in the South Island and with whom we have met often enough, Nick and Laetitia). Finally, we get to see a Kiwi ... though this seemed to have mobility problems ...



After all the excitement, we needed a little relaxation and headed to Milford Sound, to visit its waters in a boat. It's called "Sound" incorrectly, he explained the guide should be "Fiord, since the valley, then flooded by the Tasman Sea, was formed by a glacier and not by a river (that yes, it would be a "Sound"). So Javier, Marta and I have crossed eyes and said in unison: "I mean that a sound is a ria ".... many anhos trying to explain the concept of Ria de Vigo to penha and finally we have found it" Sound Vigo ".

On the way to the fjord did a couple of stops to walk a bit and see the landscape of the area. We had a nice walk through an indigenous forest where the most impressive was the amount of moss that covered every inch of ground. I think this in one of the wetter areas of the world ... we witness. We also met with "Kea" a species of parrot (the only alpine parrot in the world) that is threatened and only lives in the South Island New Zealand. Threatened or not, the bird is quite bastard and is not afraid of anything. In fact he had a couple of Japanese quite uneasy while leafing through the meal he had in his car. I made front face to face ...



The cruise itself is wonderful, seeing waterfalls, marine life and especially the most appreciable that preside Mountains all the way through the fjord. So that you have a reference scale, one step ahead of our cruise peazo type the "QueenMary" entering the fjord .... honestly looked like a boat against the rock wall around it. The day was quite regular with clouds and some rain ... but gave it a mystical touch the path that he had no evil.





With the billet that sent you, leave the gastronomic theme for other entries a little more light ... follow route, but that'll tell you some other time .

Kisses for everyone.



Juan and Marta PS: Other authoritative sources: blog Javier

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Our entry into the South Island of NZ was quite triumphant, in a lovely sunny day we crossed the Marlborough Sounds that give access to the port of Picton. The ferry went through this bunch of islands and Mountains of covers low-lying vegetation and surrounded by beaches Pequenho. The best, the little human presence, only in some beaches were seen houses half hidden by trees, slight envy.

First visit: Abel Tasman National Park on the northwest coast. This place is like a paradise of lush vegetation and perfect beaches. Senhor Abel Tasman sailed along these coasts but not going to step on land, left by legs when Maori were loaded part of his crew. Anyway, it was a misunderstanding, the Maori asked: friends or foes? Senhor Tasman replied, without knowing it, enemies ... and shit with the whole team. Seeing the park dedicated to him the play did not turn out bad.

We spent two days there. The first was spent in a kayak, along the coast line and islands surrounding Pequenho, stopping at beaches where there was a soul, no doubt Pequenho arm pain was worth it. At the end of the day We shoes to rest in a place called Anchorage where we took a chilly banho to relax the muscles. Some said that the water was cold, but we seemed perfect things about being a North ...



spent the night right there, sunk in a Aquapackers, a new concept midway between backpacker boat (the boat's bottom). Fortunately John and I were promoted common bedroom for double rooms with views. It was not to throw rockets (see John doing numbers to fold a towel), but You should have seen the bedroom. That night, with travelers from all over, a barbecue dinner listening to the waves breaking on the beach, going to complain. In this boat we would know a lot of travelers who then meet again and again over the island, and in the end, everyone visits the same places.



played the second day walk, we visited one part of the coast up hills, across bridges, landing on beaches as far a kayak you saw someone who had stopped there to rest, im-pre-sio-nan-te. Forests through which we passed were full of a plant that we had already met before around the country ... the fern! The fact is that here, as in the Peruvian jungle, the ferns measure several meters high and are real palm trees. The more we saw that Abel Tasman was the silver fern emblem of New Zealand. In front are green like everyone else, but the reverse is bright white when the light gives.



The return to the starting point of the park we did in AquaTaxi, as its name implies, are a series of outboard motor running through the beaches picking up people. Most curious was the landing, Port Motueka in a trailer picked up the boats and took them Road to the office of AquaTaxis. The passengers were in and who goes by bus ...



then continue south on the west of the island, on a road along the coast and across the Paparoa Park. If PaideLeo we were there ... in the antipodes of Porrinho. It's a piece of coastline packed with spectacular beaches and amazing rock formations, including Pancake Rocks, which seem to stacks of crepes (or crêpes or pancakes), it is curious. (The picture is not very representative, sorry, you will have to trust me.)



A little more south, with the help of our GPS, we found the exact antipodes of Vigo near a town called Barrytown. I must say that was difficult, look for the antipodes of the school but fell into the sea, not a bad place, but I longed banhos. So look for the antipodes of Cabral (in particular the house of my parents) that if they fall on the ground, and there we planted ... were on the other side of the world ... upside down!



Proceed to the area of \u200b\u200bglaciers, the Franz Joseph and Fox, so in two days from Banh on the beach to walk on ice. It must be said that has nothing to do with the Argentine glaciers, those falling directly into a lake and, although dragging a moraine of earth and stones, his face is white-blue, very clean. NZ's glaciers are more like languages \u200b\u200bthat fall on the bed of a river partially dried, so that his whole face is covered with dust and dirt. There are high walls, and therefore can be scaled directly from the front. What you see behind us in the photos are glaciers, even if they seem, left the Fox and Franz Joseph to the right.



This time you have encouraged me to do trekking on the ice each equipped with crampons, (you can you believe it was cheaper than in El Calafate?), Is an experience to see the ice so closely. As a negative note, it is The guides say that you have (you can not go on your own) have all created a network of stairs for walks. At every step, the steps are rearranging their beaks to facilitate the transition to tourists. Is not this a little aggressive for a glacier? It is, in my opinion, very Environmentally friendly, especially for a country so concerned about the environment and New Zealand.



This time I can not avoid making a voracious culinary input. Given the British presence in New Zealand, everything is not quite English Maori (although there is also much much sushi and Asian immigration to the delight of John). And if we ask: who can cook it the English? The clearest answer I would ... sweets. As shown observe these tremendous triple English muffins! chocolate. God Save the Queen ;)