Trip in New Zealand: Franz Josef

21/11/2009

This day, we were planning to go for a Glacier Tour. However, as we had arrived late in town we couldn’t book previously. So we woke up and I called the company to make sure there were places available for us 3.

Booking ready, everything was ok. Except that were going for a trekking in the glaciers for around 8 hours and we hadn’t had breakfast and neither had bought anything for lunch.

Already late, the guide told us to run and to buy something to drink and eat, because it was going to be extremely necessary as there wasn’t anything on the way.

So there were a convenience store next to the shop where we bought some snacks and Gatorades.

Back to the shop we had to hurry up to take the specific clothes for a freezing weather. Ready in the bus, we went with others dozens of people.

At the beginning we thought it was going to be easy. Nevertheless, we didn’t expect the rain, really cold temperature and that we were going to walk that much. 10k in those conditions is not for everyone.

Back in town, we needed to relax. For this, nothing better than HOT POOLS.

We spent around 2 hours at the hot pools. There we were thinking if we were going to stay in Franz Josef one more night or leave. So we decided to stay as we were really exhausted.

Leaving the pools around 8 pm, we went to the backpacker we had stayed the night before. Another problem, as we hadn’t booked, there were no beds available. The solutions were to pray to have another one still open, sleep in the car or hit the road towards a new city.

I called some backpackers till I find one that were almost closing, called Monrose. Thank God we didn’t have to sleep in the car.

Once we paid and got the key, we went to the Rainforest for dinner. Just before we use the time to wash and dry our clothes while the food was getting ready.

Everything done, we went to bed.