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Wellington 18th-28th June

Before we go any further news of the day: We are all winners!

On the way to Wellington we have come through Dannevirke, where a huge Plastic Viking drew our attention. This prankt of simple fact of the i-Site: A couple of decades, a handful of Danes moved to Dannevirke and have been trying to make the place popular, has also provide nothing. Drum we went soon after lunch when Asians. We've got us "Tuiwood" as we passed from the Tui Brewery. We often drink, beer, and it was nice the brewery tower is on every bottle, nice to see in real life.
Since all the hostels in Wellington do not have such a good reputation and we felt like it, once again to stay somewhere for a week, we have something outside in a nice spot Mana looking to get a cheap weekly rate and both Wellington and the surrounding country explored from there.

Over on the hill I'd be ... ' View of Wellington

The first afternoon excursion led to "Stonehenge Aotearoa. On the outward journey we had noticed a sign with this inscription, which is not mentioned in the guidebook. Hm - we thought that such a thing not on this side of the world gives. then no old stones have found, but a stonehengeähnliche construction of concrete.

Stonehenge Aotearoa

target visitors are not tourists, but scientific or druidic interested people. Of this we have all met many who were all gathered at the entrance houses waiting. Coincidentally, we were just there to meet the winter solstice and the many people dressed up here twice a year to celebrate such events. We continued by asking, and have been invited to participate in the ceremony, which should start immediately. And so we suddenly found ourselves in a circle back to the somewhat chaotic organized kiwi Druid, thanked the sunset between the concrete pillars of the forces from the south, west, north and east, while the reversed directions and lots of laughs have ...

Miraculix is unfortunately hidden behind the obelisk

The sun has actually just threw the shadows, which were calculated for the construction. The play was much more interesting than my memory of the English Stonehenge because you can walk around in it, can try out the sound effects and get a detailed drawing of the hand, which explains how the sun, moon, stars and shadows is how it works.

The visit to Wellington's largest museum Te Papa was very impressive. Although we have spent the whole day, we do not all have seen. On display is easy everything from Maori culture to earthquake-proof buildings.
was at least as interesting as it in the Weta Cave. One can not visit the movie studio properly, but there is a small exhibition space and a short film showing the entire creative spectrum of the emergence of Lord of the Rings. Equipped with a locations guide, we then visited a few locations for the film. This can not make more profit this people, the places at all the signs and you have to look right even if you have the corresponding film scene in the head.

Isengard today - marked Harcourt Park
a slightly different color grass Gandalf is the way the then rode to Saruman's tower.

Hobbits Hole - Mt Victoria
here investigated the Hobbits protection against the Nazgul, as they leave the Shire. The tree in the film was inserted digitally, and looks exactly like the old in the comic adaptation (Thanks Flo for the info!)

Gimli costume - in the Weta Cave

River Anduin - Christine at the Hutt River
In the background, nice to see: much was central and close to the studios, looking lonely only in the other direction. The Paddling companions here at the end of the 1st Part along.

Rohan River - a little further up the Hutt River
This was Aragorn, son Aratorns, Izildurs heritage injured in the 2nd Partially washed.

Helm's Deep - an active quarry

The best Lord of the Rings trip was to Cape Palliser. It had just stopped at the right time to rain, so we could comfortably walk to the giant rock formations. They have formed by leaching and from time to time we hear abbröseln behind or in front of rubble.

Dimholt Road - Putangirua Pinnacles
Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas look to the army of the dead, in the third part.

Further along the coast you pass through a place where a mixture is rusty old tractors that were used to pull boats from the water.
Not far away, we have observed a seal colony and saw the lighthouse.

Cape Palliser

Back at the hostel we met for the first time in the day people.

We had some rainy days this week, but we always wanted another night were busy watching football, it was very pleasant, too lazy to time during the day. That was two and a half months

North Island. When we crossed over by ferry to Picton, I did not think that this is to beat it ...

off we go ...