Onward and upward as they say! We arrived at Queenstown and went straight to Deer Park Heights...a prime spot for Lord of the Rings locations! Had to pay $20 because its on private land and all around there are "tame" animals, mostly goats and llamas, but the occasional tibetan yak and bison! So we bought $2 worth of animal feed but went straight on to find the LOTR locations!firstly was were the Warg riders kill Hama as the people of Rohan flee to Helm...

Well we booked a guide tour of the Franz Josef Glacier! So woke up bright and early to get to the departure office at 9.15am, got all kitted up in walking boots with spikes, jackets, hats, gloves, socks etc! Got to the public access part and had to trek for about 2.5kms to the actual glacier, our guide split everyone into 4 groups, we had a choice of going in group 1 which was the hardcore team who sped ahead, or down to group 4 who take it easy!...so matt ofcour...

Woke up in a fly infested tent!not nice, then headed to Greymouth for some breakfast, then onto the Franz Josef glacier! We booked an all day walk onto the glacier for tomorrow, 8 hours in total, costing a whopping $140 each, ouch! but hopefully it will be worth it!we will get the pics up as soon as we can! Saw the glacier from a distance but tomorrows the day we climb it!:) Also we may be adjusting our plans!Hopefully we are going to spend a little but longer i...

Camped out the night we arrived in the south island in a DOC campsite (Department of Conservation) which are basic campsites in the 'wilderness', cheap and cheerful! We drank our hobbit beer and ate pies and quiches and apples!Very Hobbit like! got absolutley bitten to death by sandflies!! believe me they test your patience!! Matt had a little dip in the river nearby, I just put my feet in coz it was ice cold! Other than that we had a cheap night in the...

SO straight off the ferry and onto Nelson! WRU Welsh album blasting out all the way (thanks to joe) Got to Nelson and found a jewellers which made the prototype ring for the "one ring" for The Lord of the Rings! They had it on show so we saw the real deal! Then we drove down the road to the Harrington Brewery which made the ale the Hobbits drink in the Prancing Pony! So obviously we had a little taster of "The SobeRING thought" ended up buyin...