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Angelus Hut track: New Zealand’s most spectacular mountain hut
Angelus Hut Track: New Zealand’s most spectacular mountain hut hike While preparing for my third trip to New Zealand I made a list of hikes I most definitely wanted to do when back there. On top of that list is the Angelus Hut hike in Nelson Lakes National Park. This hike first came onto my radar back in 2011 during my previous New Zealand trip. After hiking to Bushline Hut in Nelson Lakes National Park, I talked to some fellow hikers who advised me to hike onwards to Angelus Hut, which is supposed to be one of the most spectacular located mountain huts in New Zealand. Unfortunately, back then I…
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The best hikes in New Zealand
The best hikes in New Zealand, a continuously changing list full of inspiration Originally dating back from 2015, I wrote this post with the best hikes in New Zealand after my second visit to this hikers’ paradise. However having spent another few months in New Zealand early 2018, it’s about time for an update of my list of best hikes in New Zealand. I will keep on adding more and more hikes over the next few months so if you are planning a trip to New Zealand, make sure to bookmark this blog for all the information you need about hiking in New Zealand. The good thing about hiking…
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New Zealand week 3: about weather gods and angels
Aaaaand week three in New Zealand is a wrap. It’s unbelievable how fast time is passing by. In the old days of my life this used to be about the time I started to prepare going back home again from a journey, now I’ve still got more than two months to go. Just awesome! Today I’m telling you about my third week in New Zealand. Curious about my first two weeks? You can read all about them here. From Taupo I drove down south to Wellington in one go. Wellington is New Zealand’s capital (and nope, that’s not Auckland in case that’s what you were thinking). In Wellington I…
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NZ Tramping tip: Bushline Hut
All of us travelers are looking for special places, those that the big masses of tourists skip because they are in a hurry to see as much as they can. Or that they don’t bother going to because it may not be on the list of top-things to see … While we were in New Zealand we obviously did some Great Walks, or in fact, we did plenty of them. They’re called Great Walks for a reason. They are awesome, beautiful, yet very crowded, most of the time. Luckily, we also found some awesome, relatively less visited places. One of them is Nelson Lakes National Park. For this article I…
