07 March 2009

New Zeland

Since the last thing I've done in Chile was climbing the Llaima volcano, arriving to NZ I climbed straight away the volcano in the Tangariro national park - better known as Mt Dome from the movie The Lord of the ring.

In fact, the three weeks in NZ I've spent almost entirely in national parks: I walked Abel Tasman for two days, did a whole day trek into the Franz Josef glacier, walked for three days the Roteburn great walk, visited Milford Sound fjord and climbed up to the Miller hut in front of Mt Cook, the highest mountain in NZ. Of course, I couldn't leave the country without bungee jumping 134m deep into the Nevis canyon near Queenstown!

NZ is a pretty country.