Beautiful is beautiful ...

Lake Tekapo ...

As we drive along the straight roads in the valleys, it is clean and clear enjoyment. Cows and sheep graze on meadows and in the air hovering birds of prey and look for dead animals along the roadside. There are a lot of run over animals on the roads so they have plenty of food.

Straightest road in the world, perhaps ...

In large farmed deer and go together and if you drive past them they do not react but if you slow down and stop fleeing for their lives, so they are impossible to photograph.

Motorcycles at Lake Tekapo ...

We have run over Burkespass and drove to Mt Cook, New Zealand's highest mountain.
Mt Cook, the highest mountain in New Zealand ...

We drove out to the mountain and drove alongside Lake Pukaki a long time and it just became finer and finer the more we rounded curves.

The lake is turquoise and it is because it is rich in some sort of minerals and the melt water from glaciers at Mt Cook, which supplies the lake with water.

A happy and cheerful Kjell ...

Today's event was in any case we went out to the helicopter and around Mt Cook, stayed atop a glacier in the valley and went and looked at the Tasman River, which flows into Lake Pukaki. A fantastic round ... It took about 45 minutes to go around and we got to see Mt Cook but the whole cloud, wow ...

Mountains and river at Mt Cook ...
After this adventure we drove over the Lindis pass and down to Cromwell where we stopped at a campground and tried to tidy up all the impressions from today's flight and the incredible nature around here.

Fairytale Landscape ...

Mountains and valleys here in the middle of the South Island is more beautiful than beautiful. It is understandable that those who filmed "Lord of the Rings" films chosen to record a lot here that is pure fairy-tale landscape as we drive through.

Are we in himelriket, or?

You become happy in the whole body of the ride up on the roads here. Today when we went into the mountains down to the Bluff we could not describe in words how beautiful we thought that this was, we just smiled a bit silly to each other where we ran side by side.

Queenstown ...
In Queenstown, we stopped and went with the cable car up the mountain where there was an incredible view over the town and Lake Wakatipu. It was almost like flying with it. We stayed a while in the glorious weather and just enjoyed the view of Queenstown.

Bluff ...
Right now we are sitting in a tavern in Bluff, it is the southernmost tip of New Zealand. We have been on the tip and looked and took a bit short.
Imagine that we have taken us so far, the southern tip of New Zealand which is due in Sweden ...