The last leg of our tour of New Zealand began in the heart of the South Island Mount Cook National Park, where some of the highest Mountains the country. Among them, of course, the mountain which gives its name to the park and is the highest in Oceania to 3744 meters. The day we arrived, the light to the landscape looks like a square. 
spent a day walking, we were lucky because dawned sunny and we enjoyed the breathtaking peaks. We kicked up and down, and walked the course of a milky river (glacier milk again) until you reach the huge white lake where he died a glacier on Mount Cook in the background. Below you see us sweating, clad in what appears to our home even superheroes. Of course we have not lost to Xavier in the hazanha, photographer has made these much-discussed weeks avoiding autofotos. 
That night, despite the fatigue, we had energy to go on a New Zealand beer (of great variety as you see) to "the" Village pub with Nick and Matt , with whom we have met again and again in our journey since we met in Abel Tasman.
Very near there, the road runs along the shore of Lake Pukaki which is bright blue color. But so loud that the first thing you think is that you have taken detergent, surely this can not be natural, there must be something in the water radioactive and three-eyed fish. Then you say the color they give the particles in suspension and everything, but still you feel incredible. The next destination was the east coast town of Kaikoura, which is famous for marine life that exists in their costs. In the photo boat, leaping above the waves at full speed, we went looking for whales. It was not easy but we managed to see a couple of Sperm Whales, one of the largest living animal in the world. There were, floating like huge logs while breathing deeply before diving again. That was the best, when they disappeared slowly pulling the tail out of water.
ye For those who left with the doubt, these whales are called so by a confusion, they found a white substance on his head (which is huge by the way) and thought it was sperm ... then to capture a female and see that it was exactly the same thought ... glups!, but the name stuck. This is a picture of the Sperm Whale courtesy of Wikipedia. 
not far from the village saw this curious Senhal on the road ... watch seals?, It seems a little extreme no? Well it was not at all, throughout the road, hundreds of seals resting on rocks of the coast some of them dangerously close. The photo was not very happy with the interest aroused in us and Grünheid to say the session has ended. 
We went then head north to the Marlborough County, famous for its wines. We stayed in the shelter of a nice marriage near Blenheim, where we rented a bike. This is the best way to tour the wineries and tasting wines without risk of being fined. The truth is that they can be fined for drunk driving a bike, but it was not our case.
the purest style blue summer we had a great day, entering and out of cellars and tasting, not just wine, but also oils and domestic cheeses. A round plan as there are very many Vinhedo few square kilometers and the pedal does not cost too much. We the apanhar well despite driving on the left and did not do too eses on the road ...
The end of our trip was the city of Christchurch, a bit of England right in the South Pacific. A city with many gardens, with its river Avon (not lying), its Gothic cathedral, its Ninh English choir uniform, pubs ... Here we are dedicated to rest after three weeks without being stopped, has been exhausting but has certainly been worthwhile. Javier invited us to their saint, and a farewell dinner at the Dux de Lux fine cuisine based on vegetables, seafood and beer in the house ... a place that breaks the topic of English pub.
And after all this and very little pain, we Aotearoa ... not what you had said? that is the Maori name for New Zealand. We can not say more than wonders of this country, indeed Maripi, forget reply: yes, this was the first country in which women were eligible to vote, was in the late nineteenth century ... if when I say that is a great country ...
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