While the north island is known for it's thermal spas, Maori culture, and generally more people, the South Island is known for its majestic Southern Alps, adventure opportunities, and general lack of people. Both have verdant countrysides and very windy roads, but I think the spectacular views of the South Island speak mostly for themselves. 2,000 South Island kilometers later, I think I preferred the unpopulated wilderness of the western south. The contrasts of teal water, jagged coastlines, snow capped mountains and green temperate rainforests were breathtaking.
A river between Picton and Nelson
Murchison
The West Coast
Punakaiki (aka pancake rocks)
Franz Joseph Glacier
Waterfall along the Haast Pass through Mount Aspiring National Park
Driving through Haast Pass
Queenstown and the Remarkables, where it was so crowded with holiday tourists we came and went.
Fiorland National Park as the clouds cleared--more on this later!
The one bedroom motel in the farmlands of Tokanui
The Southern tip of New Zealand
Mclean Falls in the Catlins
The Catlin Coast
For my dad!
The dry Central Otago with a selection of animal pelts
Omaru, a small town on the East Coast on the way to Christchurch...
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