Continuing the trip in the South Island of NZ, we passed by the amazing Franz Joseph glacier! One of those things you have to do in life (or at least when you travel the world) is hiking a glacier, apparently!
Franz Joseph is unique in the fact that it descends from the Southern Alps to less than 300 metres above sea level amidst the greenery and lushness of a temperate rainforest, and it is also one of only three glaciers to come so close to a coastline - the other two being Fox glacier southern than this and the Perito Moreno in the South of Argentina.
Steve and I managed to upset a really cool and laid back Beggins ;)
As we were too keen to do the skydive, and we were going to stay in Franz Joseph for only one day, we booked for half day hiking and the skidive for the rest of the day...except that when we went to the tour operator for the hiking, we paid and booked the full day (8 hours of walking on the ice) and didn´t cancel the skidive! Well...Beggins was pissed off because he had booked for us the skidive! For some reason we thought we could extend the day of a few hours! ;)
All good what ends well! The hiking was quite a unique experience...lots of fun with the small group too, including Annelie, Victor, some Irish girls and boy, Carston and the guide, Andy...a blond new zealander that helped us creating a path all the way to the (almost) top of the glacier!
I got stacked between two walls of ice at the hight of the chest (let´s say chest)!! What can I do?? I got some help, but it was embarassing and fun at the same time!!
By the end of the 8 hours we could barely move muscles, including the face ones for smiling! I still remember Steve´s face ;)
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