Socks in New Zealand

Hello friends! Socks here, we have just left New Zealand and are on our way to Australia. We spent a whole month travelling around New Zealand. We are finally the farthest we could possibly be away from Canada. When you guys are going to sleep we are just waking up in the morning the next day!

New Zealand was a lot like Iceland and had lots of snow capped mountains and glaciers. We loved taking hiking trips up the mountains and looking at all the cities below. One hiking trip was 4 hours up a huge mountain. I was lucky and got a ride inside of Ally’s backpack, and didn’t have to climb all the way up! By the time we reached the top Ally was very tired.

One of our hiking trips. 

Have any of you ever wondered were kiwis come from? Guess what, they grow them right here, in New Zealand! We went to a kiwi farm and saw the kiwi trees! I have never seen a kiwi tree before! It was so cool!

At the kiwi farm.

Under a kiwi tree. Can you spot the kiwis?

We also stayed in a place that was on the set of a movie! They used the place as an ammunitions bunker in the movie Vertical Limit! The movie was about mountaineering, which means mountain climbing. It was about a group of climbers that got trapped in a crevasse (deep crack) on K2 the second biggest mountain in the world. They had to be rescued by blowing open the crevasse so the rescue people could get them out. The bombs that were used to blow open the crevasse were held in the ammunition bunker (the place were we were staying)! The place where our beds were was in the movie! We even got to sign our names beside the the director of the movie on the blackboard wall. I think I am the first monkey to ever have slept in a set of an old movie!

The bunker!

I really enjoyed my stay in New Zealand and it was very pretty there! I hope to come back some day with my family and explore this neat place even more!

Socks

P.S Did you know that New Zealand is also home to the movie the Hobbit?

Milford Sound. 

Milford Sound.

Milford Sound.

Kayaking with Ally.