The glacier is mint! New Zealand's Franz Josef glacier

May 11th-May 13th: Franz Josef

We all woke up with sore heads after the Pu Party, and we had to be on the bus by 9am to get to our next destination, Franz Josef.

Luckily, we didn't stop off at too many places on the way, although we did visit this awful deer farm where we had to watch a video that basically glorified killing animals.

It was quite disturbing and I hated every second of being in there. God only knows why Morrie thought it'd be a good idea to take us there!

From there we headed to Franz Josef where we stopped for two nights. I had booked to go horse riding in the afternoon, hoping it would somehow clear my hangover!

It turned out to be really good fun, and the scenery was incredible. Sarah doesn't really like horses so I went with a couple of guys from the Kiwi bus, Charlie and Rob.

I did a lot of horse riding when I was younger but I hadn't done it in years so I was hoping it would come back to me like driving a car..... luckily it did!

We were up early the next morning as we were doing a full day hike on the Franz Josef Glacier.

Once we had all got kitted up in all our thermals we headed for the Glacier. Me and Sarah opted the second fastest group, and had a guide called Alex.

It was an eight hour hike, and although parts of it were hard work we all had so much fun. The view was incredible.

The higher we got the more blue the ice became, because of the lack of oxygen. Our guides had been up on the Glacier earlier in the morning finding caves for us to go through and digging new ones.

It was so much fun. Some of the crevices we went through were not much wider than I am, they were so narrow!

If there is one thing I would recommend when visiting New Zealand it would definitely be visiting Franz Josef, and doing the glacier walk.

The town itself is tiny but it is absolutely stunning. I think it is something you have to see to really appreciate it.

Our next stop after Franz Josef was Wanaka, and it was a really long journey. We did stop off at some stunning lakes though so that broke the day up a little bit.

Our first stop of the day was Lake Matheson. Sarah and I had both seen some really amazing pictures of this lake so we were looking forward to seeing it for ourselves. We weren't disappointed. It is absolutely amazing.

I'm not sure how well my pictures do it justice, but these are some of the better ones I took......

We then went to a waterfall which showed an illusion if you stared at it for 60 seconds. After a few tries I finally got it. The waterfall looked like it was shooting back up. It was pretty cool and so funny watching all 50 of with our eyes glued to the waterfall!

We then stopped at Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea which are the 3rd and 4th biggest lakes in the South Island of New Zealand, which were again, absolutely beautiful...