Pomaly Ďalej Zájdeš

After finishing the 60km Kepler Track, we took a day off, during which we returned the car in Queenstown and hitched a ride with a nice guy back to Te Anau. He works in machine learning, so the roughly 2-hour trip went by really fast. He told us about what he does and why so many New Zealanders move to Australia for work (better pay, jobs in New Zealand are only sporadic).

In Te Anau we got some cheap accommodation for the night and early the next morning caught another ride to "The Divide", where the famous Routeburn Track begins.

This hike is only just over 30km, so technically we could have done it in a day, but we wanted to spend a night on the track, so we'd booked ahead one of the three huts available along the route, even though it's almost right at the very end of the trek.

The trek itself crosses a mountain massif, starting in the jungle, passing through alpine terrain, and ending in forests about 1-2 hours by car north of Queenstown. We saw plenty of birdlife again, swam in a waterfall once more, and this time successfully fended off nighttime attacks by Kea parrots from the comfort of a bunk bed instead of a tent.

The weather was incredibly good to us again, so the photos turned out nice too

Po absolvovaní 60km Kepler tracku sme si dali deň pauzu, v raámci ktorej sme v Queenstown vrátili auto a stopli fajn týpka naspať do Te Anau. Robí machine learning, tak nám cca 2h cesta ubehla velmi rýchlo. Hovoril nám s čím pracuje a prečo veľa Novozélanďanov odchádza za prácou do Austrálie (lepšie platy, na Zélande je len sporadicky).

V Te Anau sme vzali na noc nejaké lacné ubytko a skoro ráno zobrali ďalší stop do "The Divide", kde začína známy Routeburn track.

Táto túra má len niečo cez 30km, čiže technicky by sme to prešli aj za deň, no chceli sme na treku prenocovať tak sme si dopredu bookli jednu z troch dostupných chát, ktoré sa na trase nachádzajú, aj keď už skoro na úplnom konci treku.

Samotný trek je prechod cez horský masív, začína sa v džungli, prechádza vysokohorským terénom a končí v lesoch cca 1-2h autom severne od Queenstown. Videli sme na ňom opäť množstvo vtáctva, kúpali sa zase raz vo vodopáde a tentokrát z pohodlia poschodovej postele miesto stanu úspešne odolali nočným útokom papagájov Kea.

Počasie nám zase raz vyšlo neuveriteľne, čiže aj fotky máme pekné

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