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Cape Foulwind, New Zealand – Flashpacker’s Photo of the Day
From a day spent hiking around Cape Foulwind on the south island of New Zealand during my trip with Stray.
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Flashpacker’s Photo of the Day – Lake Takepo
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Flashpacker’s Photo of the Day – New Zealand Sea Lion
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Stray, New Zealand – A Detailed Case Study of Hop On Hop Off Bus Travel
What’s it like to travel on a hop-on hop-off bus? I recently finished a whirlwind, twenty-five day trip around all of New Zealand with a hop-on hop-off bus company called Stray. While I normally trend towards much more independent travel methods, I felt this was the way to flashpack across New Zealand. Had I been […]
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Flashpacking New Zealand with Stray – Final Days & Kiakoura
The last few days on the bus were mostly filled with scenery instead of activities. We woke up in Dunedin and had a long drive up to the base of Mt. Cook, New Zealand’s tallest mountain. The stops along the drive included the Moeraki Boulders, large, marble-shaped boulders on the beach, the Victorian town of […]
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Flashpacking New Zealand with Stray – Day 22 – Dunedin
We were up bright and early this morning to catch the morning ferry back to the south island and meet up with the rest of the bus. The ride back from Stewart Island wasn’t as bad as the previous day’s trip, but I’m not sure that passage is ever calm. If you plan on getting […]
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Flashpacking New Zealand with Stray – Days 20 and 21 – Stewart Island
If you’ve been following along form the beginning, you’ll already know that, while in the North Island, heavy rain prevented us from doing river rafting and created heavy snow that shut down the Tongariro Crossing as well. After a week’s worth of amazing weather, I suppose it was only a matter of time until we […]
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Flashpacking New Zealand with Stray – Queenstown Part 2
These two posts on Queenstown cover five days, which, in keeping with the previous posts, would be days 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 of my trip. If you were sticking with the standard Stray bus schedule, you’d normally only get two nights in Queenstown, but most people seem to take extra time here. I […]
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Flashpacking New Zealand with Stray – Queenstown Part 1
These two posts on Queenstown cover five days, which, in keeping with the previous posts, would be days 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 of my trip. If you were sticking with the standard Stray bus schedule, you’d normally only get two nights in Queenstown, but most people seem to take extra time here. I […]
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Flashpacking New Zealand with Stray – Day 14 – Slow Day
After our visit to Franz Josef Glacier yesterday, we’ve got two days of transport before arriving in Queenstown. Today we traveled to the hamlet of Makarora which didn’t have much for us except for dinner, a place to sleep and karaoke, but I’ll get to that in a minute. Five of us woke up very […]