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Travel advise needed for south New Zealand
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rabbit
Joined: 03 Feb 2011
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 Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:17 pm Post subject: Travel advise needed for south New Zealand |
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Hey Guys, i need advise to check whether this plan will work, Will the time allow me to do all this in 8 days by driving? Is that too rush?
Day From To
D1 Christchurch
stay
D 2 Christchurch Mount cook
D 3 Mount Cook Dunedin
D 4 Dunedin Queenstown
D 5 Queenstown stay
D 6 Queenstown Franz Josef Glacier
D 7 Franz Josef Glacier Greymouth
D 8 Greymouth i Christchurch by train |
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Kalense
Joined: 03 May 2011
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 2:59 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, you can do it, but youŽll see a lot of road.
Distances in NZ are deceptive. The speed limit is 100km/h and it is enforced. Most of the roads you are planning to use are OK at that speed, but you wonŽt be able to average 100km/h even so. You should probably plan about 90km/h in your estimates of how much time youŽll need between locations. Many roads wind quite a bit. So your plan guarantees youŽll spend hours a day in your car.
That isnŽt necessarily a bad thing, because youŽll see some fantastic scenery. Trouble is, youŽre not going to leave yourself much time to enjoy it. |
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