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| We stopped for a day at Franz Josef glacier, to see the numerous waterfalls ... |
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| ... streams ... |
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| ... and of course hiking on the glacier itself. |
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| It can easily get dangerous |
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| Sometimes, it gets quite narrow ! |
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| Sorry, the picture doesn't show so much, but small streams make very, very deep holes in the ice. |
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| Our group of "alpinists" |
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| The real professionals :) |
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| Yay ! we survived ! |
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| Funny coloured vegetation down the glacier |
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| Surrounding mountains are impressive, though not as high as the European Alps |
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| Here is Fox glacier |
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| I believe the highest peak is Mount Cook |
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| Accross Matheson lake, mirror effects are awesome |
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| Some landscape look very much like the Alps in Europe, except for the birds |
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| Fantail |
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| Some kind of blueberries, but I don't know if they're edible |
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| The panorama (to be compared with previous pictures) |
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| This could be useful |
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| Our car broke 50Km away from Haast :( byebye ! |
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| A group of French took us in pity and gave us a lift the next day, from Haast ... |
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| ... along lake Hawea ... |
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| ... to Wanaka and its lake. |
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| In New Zealand, one can buy a registration number. I guess this one isn't fond of his Suzuki. |
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| Following the Clutha river, |
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| passing Cromwell, |
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| we arrived at Kawarau |
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| where a famous bungy jumping center can be found (the first in NZ I think). |
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| The next day, we got a lift from an English guy, from Queenstown ... |
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| ... along mirror lakes (ridiculous in size, but interesting mirror effect) ... |
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| ... until Milford Sound (which actually is a fiord, not a sound) |
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| We had to take a cruise, and compare with Norway :) |
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| Some waterfalls are impressive |
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| Our cruise went as far as reaching the Tasman sea, then headed back to Milford |
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| On the way back we got to see some fur seals |
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| Sometimes dolphins show up ... unfortunately, we didn't see any. |
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| The sunset gives really nice golden colour to the mountains. I believe this one to be Mount Christina. |
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| Cruise is over :( |
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