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Kaikoura -> Foz Glaciers
So off we went, one Czech girl, an already lost English guy and our hopefully trusty little Nissan! What adventures lay ahead of us we didnt know. Christchurch sits on the middle of the east coast and we had a rough plan to do a circle around the south island heading north. The roads take you through untouched mountains and fields full of every animal you could ever wish to see on your plate, even lamas!?!! After hours of greenery we were suddenly awoken with the view of clear blue sea and the town of Kaikoura. Famous for its dolphins, whales and seals we went in search of them all (some successfully!) and stayed in a cool hostel called 'Dusky Lodge' which offered and outdoor hot jacuzzi. We were planning to stay at Hanmer springs on the way but the rain slightly put us off, hence the jacuzzi had to do instead! You could build a paper mansion out of the endless free tourist guides available and our 'borrowed' Lonely Planet gave birth to the idea of doing a sky dive in Abel Tasam, or actually in the town of Motueka on the north of the south island. The morning we left Kaikoura we had no idea of quite what an important day this would become!
Arriving at Motueka we circled a few hostels with no luck as most of the owners seemed to be having an afternoon nap!?! The words "Why dont we check out the skydive center and times for tomorrow" came out of one of our mouths, I cant speak for Petra but I was still pushing the idea of actually sky diving to the back of my mind, regularly haunted by the words which once left my mouth of "Its something you have to do in your life time", whilst thinking I would be dead before I ever got round to doing it! So we drove over to the Airport and skydive base, only to find an ambulance sat outside it...you can imagine our thoughts! We went in to ask about tomorrow and got talked into doing a jump in one hour as the weather was so good today and forecasted as "terrible" for tomorrow, so we fell for the oldest sales trick in the book. Sat in the same clothes as we had set out in that morning we looked at each other unable to make normal conversation and chain smoking as it sank in...we were jumping out of a plane at 13,000 feet, falling at 200kph/120mph. To make it worse, or suposedly better, they show you a video before you jump of skydiving, this really didnt help us trying to forget what we were about to do! They kit you up in minutes and make you laugh, we each had our own camera man who followed us around in order to make the funniest film ive watched for ages! Squashed into the smallest plane we took off, both remembering reaching a huge height at which we thought we would jump only to be told; "Half-way there now".. oh! Its safe to say that the pictures and video pick up the story pretty well from this point!! From here we met fellow victims to 'the weather sales pitch', Paul from Ireland, Matt from Canada and two girls; Abbie from Bristol and Olivia from Ireland and all heading to a wicked campsite called 'Old McDonalds Farm' in the national park where we spent the evening sat around the fire drinking and still high from our jumps. This campsite really lived upto its name, you would wake up in the morning to find chickens, ducks, peacocks, you name it was sat in our outside kitchen! We also did a bit of hiking around the Abel Tasman National Park which was beautiful.
Two days passed and we then left for the Franz Glacier and Fox Glaciers, heading south from the north along the west coast. The journey was broken up with a stop over in Greymouth, we stayed in a cool hostel called Noahs Ark with animal themed rooms and some hippy residents. Spent the evening watching our first (since on the West coast) sun set over the sea, it was quite something. The roads here are out of this world, one minute your surrounded by the greenest of green mountains and next the road takes you alongside rich blue lakes then you followed the coast with huge rocks (sunbathing points for many seals!) and bright blue sea for as far as you can see, nothing compares to that! We arrived and saw two glaciers, Franz Josef and Fox both equally spectacular followed by a night stop at the hostel Ivory Towers with amazing views. Our little Nissan was suprisingly well behaved, despite many gravel tracks its was forced upon... my view of Nissans is slowly changing! Also much to the jealousy of my dad there was a classic car rally on so for most the trip we were surrounded by old english classic cars, including a convertible e-type, bright red triumph and many more (I took pictures for you!)! The people of NZ are so friendly and helpful you can do nothing but smile most the time.
Vse o nasi prvni polovine na Novem Zelandu! Je toho tolik, ze je jen tezko popsatelne vse co jsme videli a zazili! Takze ve zkratce: nase cesta zacinala 18.10. kdy jsme opustili hlavni mesto jizniho ostrava Christchurch smer sever. Nase prvni zastavka smerovala do mesta Hanmer Spring - prohlasene venkovni lazne! Ale s nasim stestim samozrejme prselo, takze do lazni jsme se zrovna nehnali a diky vysokohorskym prirazkam ve vsech hostelich jsme se rozhodli jet dal na sever..! Cesta je slovy nepopsatelna - obrovske zelene kopce, zasnezene hory a farmy plne ovci a krav na jedne strane a hned z druhe se vam otvira pohled na ocean, plaze, a skalnate utesy. Takze dlouhe hodiny na silnici utekli celkem rychle a nam se otevrel nadherny pohled na mesto Kaikoura! To ze jsme si neuzili lazne v Hanmer Springs nam nahradil hostel ktery jsme zde nasli - velky bazen, venkovni horke (36 C) lazne a sauna. No luxus pro prave cestovatele :) Zustali jsme dva dny a nedalo nam dat se na turu po utesech kde se vyhrivali tuleni lezici hned vedle nas, nadherny vyhled a proste ta priroda tam je slovy nepopsatelna. Den naseho odjezdu jsme vstali velmi brzy, jelikoz nas cekala daleka cesta do mesta Motueka. Po asi 6 hod. v aute, jsme dorazili a zacali objizdet hostely, nejakym zpusobem nikde nebyl nikdo pritomen a tak jsme se rozhodli zajet na tamni letiste a popripade si rezervovat seskok na dalsi den. Nejlevnejsi trik vsech dob byl - skacete za hodinu, predpoved pocasi na dalsi dny neni prizniva a dnes je perfektni den. No nase nervozita stoupla velice rychle (zaroven s vidinou ceny tohoto sebevrazedneho pokusu), ale tak nejak jsme kyvli a nase hodina nervozity se prodrazila jeste vice na prokourenych cigaretach! (10$ za krabicku-pro predstavu) Ale tak jsme se trosku povzbudili a uz jsme se soukali do kombinez. Muj partak byl super(anglican), a muj osobni kameraman (kazdy jsme meli sveho kameramana,proto ty super fotky a video) byl taky OK! Pak to slo rychle, povidani na kameru (nejvetsi nervozita kdy jsem se sekla, nemohla mluvit ani CJ ani AJ, A to ze muj Aj prizvuk zni jaksi rusky to taky nevim kde se ve mne vzalo), naskocili jsme do letadla a letelo se. Ricki se zdal vic nervozni, ja jsem si spise uzivala vyhled! Jo ale jen do te doby kdy jsem se dozvedela ze skacu prvni a ty sklenene dvere vedle me se nahle otevreli. Pak to byl mazec, ani nevim jak me muj partak vystrcil mezi dvere a prinutil me tam sedet po celkem dlouhou dobu, pac se mate jako usmivat na jednu kameru pak se otocit a na druhou..?Blazni, jak je videt z meho vyrazu, jsem se moc usmivat nechtela :) No a on pak skocil, a ja se vezla s nim. 200 km v hodine, 50 sekund volnym padem, a v hlave jedinou myslenku "proc ja jsem sem lezla?".. kdyz se vam mozek zredukuje rychle tak mate nekolik sekund vnimat okoli, co je pod vami a vubec okolo a taky si uvedomite ze vas zivot nekonci kdyz se pred vami objevi smejici se kameramen. Po dalsich nekolika vterinach se otevrel padak a to byl ten spravny cas kdy jsem si oddychla a uzivala zbytek letu dolu!Po pristani uz byla vse jen sranda a my jsme poznali nove pratele (kteri pote cestovali s nami po zbytek cesty) a s nimi jsme odjeli do mesta Marahau kde jsme stravili dva dny na stare Mc Donaldove Farme! Popijeli u ohne a nekolik hodin mluvili jen o nasich zazitcich ze seskoku! Tahle oblast je jednou z nejkrasnejsich na NZ, Abal Tasman Narodni Prirodni Rezervace! Takze seskok zde byl jako vysnenym snem!
Nase cesta dale smerovala na zapadni pobrezi do mesta Greymouth! Dalsi super hostel jmenem Noemova Archa, kde kazdy pokoj byl ve stylu nejakeho zvire. My jsme dostali Zebru, a pote jsme nedockave preslapovali na plazi cekajici na Zapad slunce na Zapadnim pobrezi, takze primo za ocean! Nase dalsi cesta vedla do mest Franz Josef a Fox Glacier! V teto Alpske oblasti se nachazeji obrovske ledovce, a spousta venkovnich aktivit! Aktivity po financni strance nebyly zrovna v nasem rozpoctu, a tak jsme se snazili dostat vsude mozne autem, a po nekolika vyslapech jsme se ocitli primo pred ledovcem. Samozrejme ze jsme si to neuzili tolik jako kdyby jsme mohli jit dovnitr, ale tak alespon mame neco do budoucna, az bude holt vic financnich prostredku! Tady u ledovcu konci nase prvni polovina cestovani poi NZ, pomalu nas zmaha unava, a my pocitame den 51. od zacatku nasich cest!
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Radiati Ahojky. pl nuji tak cestu do Austr lie. Chci se zeptat, jak moc dobře mus m umět ankigcly jednak pro cestu tam a samozřejmě jestli je probl m sehnat při studiu zaměstn n a jak mus b t znalost angličtiny pro pr ci.. Vůbec, jak k v m přistupovali na leti ti a během cesty (ty l z tka byly fakt super) a jak to vlastně bylo potom tam D ky Lubo