Though cycling

With our hands waving in the air we walk through the customs and there we are. The Holland trip is over and it's up to the two of us again. Via Bangkok we arrive in Taipei where we have to wait for 8 hours for our connection to Sydney. At our way to The Netherlands Marlous had already seen that it's possible to make a city tour organised by the Taiwanese Tourist Office. This seems a good idea to us rather then trying out all the chairs available at the airport. With our Dutch passport we are allowed to enter the country for 30 days. At a counter we subscribe for the tour and soon we find ourselves in a bus together with other travellers curious to see something of the city.
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Cold

From Akaroa we cycle to Hilltop again, this time with beautiful views and the sun shining on our backs. We continue our path on a rail trail, an old one which is cycle path nowadays. Nice and easy we cycle along a lake where more than a 100 black swans are swimming. We can't find a campsite in the evening, but some people tell us to camp at Coes Ford. When we arrive at a big field it feels a bit strange to spend the evening here. We decide to have a look at the only tent there is and the guy tells us it's fine to sleep here for the night. We pitch our tent, cook a nice meal and dive into our sleeping bags early.
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Go on wereldtrappers go on!!

We are surrounded by mountains on which the first snow has fallen. The air is cold and slowly autumn changes into winter. From our little house in Queenstown we see it all happening, but with our heads we are somewhere else. It's like yesterday we were making out way through the mud in Yunnan, China. Everywhere we came there were smiling people and a language we didn't speak. The lonely desert in Iran, with rice on the back of a car. With ten days of police-escort in Pakistan we travel back to our First hills in Belgium and our last ones here in New Zealand.
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New Zealand: map with our planned route by bicycle

Below you can view the map of New Zealand with our cycled route
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