Hi everyone,
Thanks to Melvin for his guest blog entry and slideshow! I'm having a great time in New Zealand so far. I'm having fun this week at Arthur's Pass National Park on the South Island. Today's topic: tramping. That's what they call hiking in NZ, except it really feels like tramping (i.e. walking thru wilderness on what you could hardly call a trail). Tramping is a big deal in NZ -- although they like to call it a "water sport" because you're either walking thru rivers or in the rain a lot!
Other features:
* Huts: They have a wonderful hut system -- you could go for days going from one hut to the next without ever camping out. It's really nice. Each hut has its own personality. One hut I stayed in was brand new, another one had mice playing in the walls all thru the night!
* Scenery: Incredible. Lush green woods. Glaciers. Waterfalls. Makes me want to see Lord of the Rings again, just for the scenery.
* Trampers: Very friendly, from all over the world as well as NZ. Fun to visit with at huts & on trail. Amazingly it seems that everyone is here for longer than I am. A couple of girls from Europe I met going the opposite direction on the trail let me borrow their car they had left at one end of the trail -- I drove around to the other end and picked them up, then we drove back into town.
Have a great week everyone!
Ray
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I love doing the hut-to-hut system! And NZ would be the perfect place to do it, rodents and all....:-)
Hi Ray, Mike here (the Brit you met in Greymouth!). Nice blog - I've just arrived in Franz Josef on my bike and am looking forward to heading down to Queenstown. I shall perhaps see you there. Enjoy the tramping!
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