Tuesday, August 02, 2005
NZ 3: Dunedin - Te Anau - Midford Sound - Queenstown
Hi everyone, guess what? It's August now, so.... STOP CALLING ME TRASHBAG! Ok, let's see I've got here:
We went to see the Mysterious Skin in the Dunedin Internation Film Festival, since I'm gonna miss the preview screening organised by FBi. Anyway it was quite an interesting film, if you like to see how people deal with traumatized childhood. The guy who do Neil, swear to god I have seen him somewhere before! Tell me if you recognize him! His acting is alright in this film tho, I think it's a bit over-acting. (4 out of 5)
We had a good breakfast in Metro again, and started to drive off the town. Before Te Anau, we went to checked out the Baldwin Street, which is claimed as the most steepest street in the world. It was very kool and very steep, went up to the top to see the whole Dunedin and drove back down... God I almost died in heart attack there!
Off we go, headed to Te Anau and picked up Joe, a new travel company in the group! He is a friend of Hanna and decided to meet us in NZ. A very funny dude knows how to entertain, tho sometimes I a bit smart arse, I actually quite enjoy travelling with him.
Te Anau is a very quiet version of Queenstown, a huge lake in the front and the snow mountains behind. We just stayed there for one night tho, since the accomodation is quite expensive there. We were also told that they have better Lord of the Ring view in Milford Sound, so there's where we wanna go the next morning.
Heading to Milford Sound is definitely a trek, icey road around the mountain wasn't comfortable at all. But it's very kool to go through the old skool tunnel to this remote town, it's kinda like a coal mining tunnel. Joe just screamed 'Let's go out of the Batcave, Robin!!!' pretty much you know how's it like by what he said, yeah? :)
Milford Sound is a rainforest region, so it rains almost 365days - cold and wet, but Golly, the view there was absolutely amazing! The road we walk up to the mountain is green color, the whole nature is so well-protected. Trees are so beautiful there, oriental shape with moss hanging down from the branches as if they all wear clothes. Stunning! It's like the dreamland that you would only think it does exist when you were a kid.
We drove back to Queenstown and head for a cheap place to live. Now we are staying in this place called Pinewood Lodge, pretty kool place but a bit dirty.
I'm running out of time, so will tell you what happened after we hit the Queenstown. :) ciao!
[[audio: Blur - Tender]]
Hi everyone, guess what? It's August now, so.... STOP CALLING ME TRASHBAG! Ok, let's see I've got here:
We went to see the Mysterious Skin in the Dunedin Internation Film Festival, since I'm gonna miss the preview screening organised by FBi. Anyway it was quite an interesting film, if you like to see how people deal with traumatized childhood. The guy who do Neil, swear to god I have seen him somewhere before! Tell me if you recognize him! His acting is alright in this film tho, I think it's a bit over-acting. (4 out of 5)
We had a good breakfast in Metro again, and started to drive off the town. Before Te Anau, we went to checked out the Baldwin Street, which is claimed as the most steepest street in the world. It was very kool and very steep, went up to the top to see the whole Dunedin and drove back down... God I almost died in heart attack there!
Off we go, headed to Te Anau and picked up Joe, a new travel company in the group! He is a friend of Hanna and decided to meet us in NZ. A very funny dude knows how to entertain, tho sometimes I a bit smart arse, I actually quite enjoy travelling with him.
Te Anau is a very quiet version of Queenstown, a huge lake in the front and the snow mountains behind. We just stayed there for one night tho, since the accomodation is quite expensive there. We were also told that they have better Lord of the Ring view in Milford Sound, so there's where we wanna go the next morning.
Heading to Milford Sound is definitely a trek, icey road around the mountain wasn't comfortable at all. But it's very kool to go through the old skool tunnel to this remote town, it's kinda like a coal mining tunnel. Joe just screamed 'Let's go out of the Batcave, Robin!!!' pretty much you know how's it like by what he said, yeah? :)
Milford Sound is a rainforest region, so it rains almost 365days - cold and wet, but Golly, the view there was absolutely amazing! The road we walk up to the mountain is green color, the whole nature is so well-protected. Trees are so beautiful there, oriental shape with moss hanging down from the branches as if they all wear clothes. Stunning! It's like the dreamland that you would only think it does exist when you were a kid.
We drove back to Queenstown and head for a cheap place to live. Now we are staying in this place called Pinewood Lodge, pretty kool place but a bit dirty.
I'm running out of time, so will tell you what happened after we hit the Queenstown. :) ciao!
[[audio: Blur - Tender]]
