South Island 🌏🧗🏼‍♀️🌄

We have arrived to the South Island of New Zealand! This place is as beautiful and peaceful as everyone says it is. We have a rental car and are learning to drive on the opposite side of the road, which isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. We’re staying in Queenstown, which is a super cute little town surrounded by mountains and water. Today we hiked Ben Lomond. It’s a 9 mike round trip hike, the first part is straight uphill. It was pretty tough but definitely worth it! We were nervous because it was 100% chance of rain all day but the weather was beautiful. It was cloudy at the top, so we didn’t get the best view but we get bragging rights for finishing 😝.  The views we got of the mountains and water along the way were incredible. We even saw billy goats on the trail! This place is picturesque, I can’t wait to see what else it has to offer!


 View from the bnb








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  1. UnknownMarch 3, 2018 at 7:19 AM

    Fantastic! Thanks for sharing your experiences! Congrats on completing that difficult hike!

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  2. UnknownJuly 20, 2018 at 2:13 PM

    Stunning. Making me want to go book a flight to anywhere straight away!

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