22km total 2561 km 6 hours And another bad weather day. It is with an amazing sunrise and some cold rain that I start my walk upward breast hill. The road up there is easy to walk but the rain and the wind makes it a cold moment to get through. I have a break […]
39 km total 2539 km 12 hours And my phone is dead. It didn’t like much the Ahuriri River. Guess I will have to get a new one in Wanaka. Luckily I have my printed maps with me and the track is pretty straight forward. Once up the river bank, the track goes through farmland […]
What the best thing to do to stay on the trail a little bit longer and delay the end of the walk. That’s right, zero days. I am using these days to rest and enjoy the place and simply taking my time to update this blog and eating. Yes eating. When it is so easy […]
28 km total 2500 km 8 hours Finally some mountains again. The track soon leave the lake shores and gets up through a beech forest in a small valley up a saddle direction Ahuriri valley. The landscape remind me of Switzerland a lot. I enjoy the walk despite the sun shining high that day. The […]
55 km total 2444km 12 hours I leave the hostel soon after midnight. I didn’t get lot of sleep because of the other people in the but whatever I am still rested enough. It is pitch black outside and despite the clouds I do still get some nice views of the sky full of stars. […]
40km total 2374km 12 hours Another highlight on Te Araroa trail! Today I am crossing stag saddle, the highest point of this trail. I leave late as usual stone hut and immediately dive my feet in the cold river. This makes me walk even faster. I reach royal hut after ninety minutes and carry on […]
0km 2390km After the last stretch I enjoy my bed for the day and rest. I will go on in the night so better take some rest and get some energy for the long hike that awaits me.
16km total 2390km 3.5 hours After a nice night and a great sunrise I walk the last bit into Tekapo. The road is not really interesting but it is an easy walk. Just before the end a footpath more or less washed out leads to the small touristic village. I have the first sight of […]
19km total 2334km After a good night in Geraldine the shuttles dropped us right after Mesopotamia Station. The weather was good and I enjoyed the walk. It starts along the Bush stream which I will cross a couple of time. I really enjoyed that part. After losing some time to find the washed out trail […]
32km total 2315 km 7.5 hours Cold morning today. After the rain of last day, the higher part of the mountains were all white and the first 15 minutes of the day were the coldest. But as soon as I walked in the sun it was way much better. The landscapes through the day were […]
