The Tranzalpine railway is one of the world’s greatest train rides. It goes over some amazing gorges with crystal blue water. It was quite hard to take pictures though so I don’t have any evidence of this trip. It was too hard to get a picture of anything without having the glare of the window. Also by the time I got my camera ready, half the time the beautiful view was gone so I just decided to enjoy it and forget about trying to get pictures. The train went from Christchurch to Greymouth and then I took a bus to Fox Glacier. The plan was to hike to the glacier and see it. Since it’s receding you can’t just walk onto it anymore. The only way to get onto the glacier is to helicopter in at a price tag of $300. All of this was moot, since the weather was so bad I couldn’t hike there and there were no helicopter flights. There was really nothing to do all day. I basically spent the whole day watching Game of Thrones. The next day I had a bus to Queenstown.
The one and only picture I took on the train trip.
A picture that I stole from Google.
Another picture that I stole from Google, although this is what the journey looked like.
My only picture from the town of Fox Glacier. A pretty yucky day.
On the bus to Queenstown the next day, I finally got to see Mt. Cook, NZ’s highest mountain.
Knights Point
Thunder Creek Falls. 28 meters or 91 feet tall.
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