Disovering Kiwi Land on the other side ot the world: work and travel in New Zeland
Nadine Schlehofer
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I want to tell you about my adventure in New Zealand, because it was a very inspiring and life changing experience in my life.
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Canterbury and Marlborough - Amazing landscapes and horse trek
In Christchurch, we had the best weather! The sun was shining the whole day and it was almost too warm. The first day there, we went to discover the city centre. It was all still a little improvised even though the big earthquake was at that time already three years...
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Dunedin and Mackenzie District
Before continuing to Canterbury, we stayed several days in Dunedin because I wanted to get rid of my fever that I had gotten. It started out slowly, probably after the many rainy days that we stayed in the cold car, and grew worse and worse, until I lay in bed shivering...
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Fiordland and Southland
Starting in Te Anau and leading up to the village of Milford, winds the Milford Highway. On this road, you will find many camp site and several small and also longer hiking tracks to special places. As we arrived in the evening, we just stayed at the first camping place...
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West Otago and near-death experiences
We still stayed some time in Wanaka, which we had selected as the most beautiful part of New Zealand until now, and it kept to be as beautiful. The sunshine stayed during all the time and brightened our mood even more. We went a lot hiking to some small lakes as the...
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West Coast - glacier and helicopter flight
On our way to Greymouth, we stopped at New Zealands longest suspension bridge, the Buller Gorge Swingbridge. Of course, we had to cross it and already on the other side, went for a walk there. It was nice, the bridge was funny – just on a side note, flip flops are not...
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Heading South - the Nelson Region
As I already mentioned in the last post, we came almost late for our ferry as we had been stuck in a traffic jam of a herd of cows. We already had that several times, but normally they have their own paths and just cross the roads some times. Often, they already have...
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Country of Middle Earth
My German friend at whose place we had been staying in the beginning and around Christmas time, had a very beautiful present for me. Actually, she said it was because I had been taking care of her horse for 2 and a half years and she would owe me something. But for me...
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Samoa part III Savai'i
On the ferry, it was so freezing cold that after that one hour drive, we were all so happy to be on land again. But it had been nice to see the island from the sea and to observe some flying fishes, it was the first time that I saw them in reality. The first problem,...
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Samoa part II Upolu
Now, time for some general information! Samoa consists of nine islands in total, the two biggest and well known ones are the main islands and are called Upolu, the bigger one with the Airport and capital, and Savai'i, where you can get by ferry. We were still on Upolu...
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Samoa part 1: Camp Samoa
Holiday time! Now, you will say we are already on holiday. But, honestly, you cannot call half a year holiday, that’s already life and being a tourist can get exhausting, so you need some holidays from the holidays. We decided to go to the islands of Samoa. We left...
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Work, Christmas and New Years Eve
Finally, the luck seems to have found back to us. We found work as dishwashers in the beach restaurant Frontroom in Waikanae. Each of us has four days of 5-8 hours, but it is enough to earn money. Apart from that, we always get the days of colleagues that are not...
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Not everything is fun
Not everything is fun. We noticed that around November. We started to look for work in Rotorua as we wanted to meet with a friend in that region for Christmas and therefore wanted to stay longer. That didn’t work out as we thought. One thing was that I fell ill –...
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Rotorua: thermal activity and Maori culture
I was looking forward to going to Rotorua for a long time, because this ist he Maori centre and they were one of the reasons, why I came to New Zealand. I was always interested in the native tribes of Australia, America and mainly New Zealand. When we arrived, the...
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More wwoofing in the Bay of Plenty
Not even an hours drive from our old wwoofin place, we came to our new one. The first impression was sadly not so good. We had to cook our own meals and had few ingredients to choose from. The kitchen and bathroom was not very clean. Another wwoofer was there at the...
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Hobbiton film locations and Mount Manganui
As I already told you, we could plan our working hours on ourselves to get some time off. We took one day to go to Matamata to a huge former sheep farm. What did we want there, you will ask. Everyone, who is a big Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit fan, will know: in...
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Wwoofing in Bay of Plenty
We got our first own wwoofing acceptance! Now, that we have our first wwoofing experience behind us and a really good recommendation letter from our last host, it is a lot easier to get accepted. Within one week, we already had two suggestions, which we liked and were...
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Coromandel Peninsula - Filmlocations and paradise
Our destination was Thames on the Coromandel Peninsula. A bit outside of the city, we found a nice hostel. The first day in this region, we spent in a gold mining museum, where you could see the big machines and read about the gold mining history of the region. The rest...
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The far north of New Zeland
After having said goodbye to our very nice wwoofing hosts, we headed to the far north of the northern island. For that, we had to go back the windy roads to get to the main road and then take the road to the north. There are two roads: a normal highway: which means a...
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Auckland and the surroundings
During the time, that we spent in the region of Hamilton, the weather was constantly bad and so we couldn’t do a lot. Which means, you can always do something indoors, which we did for example in Hamilton, when going to the museum, but I am more the outdoor and...
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Bay of Islands
One station on our list, was the wonderful Bay of Islands. We drove to the nice city of Pahia, where we stayed in the cute backpacker called mousetrap. It was very cosy, with friendly staff and also pretty cheap. We had clean rooms with sea view and the hostel kept up...
