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Copland Track

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

After being rained out in Arthurs Pass and a cloudy day on the glacier we were hoping that the weather would improve – but this is the West Coast of NZ and it is notorious for its rain (thats why there are rain forests next to glaciers I suppose!). [read on]

Fox Glacier

Friday, November 24th, 2006

We had a great day walking on the Fox glacier (the less touristy glacier on the West Coast of NZ). To get onto the ice we walked up through rain forest – which in itself it quite strange. Glacier + rain forerst…the two don’t usually go hand in hand! [read on]

Arthurs Pass

Friday, November 24th, 2006
We caught the Tranz Scenic train from Christchurch to Arthurs pass - Virgin trains should take a lesson - you have to turn up 30m mins beforehand to check in and get your seat allocation - none of this run ... [Continue reading this entry]

Banks Peninsular Track

Friday, November 17th, 2006
First stop Auckland, for about 4 hours before catching a plane down to Christchurch. The following day a bus to Akaroa - a beautiful French village on the Banks Peninsular about 80kms from Christchurch. This was where we were picked ... [Continue reading this entry]

Fiji

Friday, November 17th, 2006

We decided to risk the coup - fco advice was to stay clear of Suva (the capital) and we were going no where near.

We were late arriving as we'd gone a long way round to avoid turbulance, and once ... [Continue reading this entry]

Tokyo

Friday, November 17th, 2006

We finally end up in Tokyo (after passing through earlier in the trip). Not much sightseeing here, more general sorting out and deciding whether or not to risk Fiji given coup risks...

We did however get up stupidly early (aka ... [Continue reading this entry]

Fuji-san

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

We spent three days in the Mount Fuji area. The mountain was allegedly there - but hidden in the murk/clouds most of the time. The day we left it decided to show itself, just to prove it does ... [Continue reading this entry]

Temple-san

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

So, after much coldness it was off for some religious enlightenment at a number of temples/shrines/cemetaries (well it would have been if we understood the difference between temples/shrines and had some background knowledge to budhism/shinto).

Nontheless it was fabulous looking at ... [Continue reading this entry]

Photos

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

We are having a few problems getting various computers around Japan to recognise the camera at the moment...so recent blog entries are minus photos.

We know that the place we are staying at in Tokyo will play, so there will be ... [Continue reading this entry]