Photogallery New Zealand

Here you can see the photos that we took during our travels in New Zealand. Gradually we will add more. Photos are sorted from the newest to the oldest.

Gold mine collapsed

The shaft was less than 700 meters deep and 200 meters below sea level

Helenka is looking for gold in the old mine

The Haunted House at Reefton

Golden river Buller

With friends on our way to Sunrise Peak

Mt. Isobel and our whole team

Mt. Isobel and views of Hanmer Springs

Waterfalls: Devils Punch Bowls

The swamp in Okarito

Highway in Arthur's Pass

Okarito

Okarito - a swamp with surprise, a beautiful view where we did't expect it.

Glacier of Franz Joseph and us

Glacier and surroundings

The glacier of Franz Joseph

Waterfalls on the way to the glacier

The glacier of Franz Joseph

Fox Glacier and Helenka with a piece of iceberg in her hand

Mushrooms and harvest as it should be

One kiss on Avalanche Peaku

Clouds are comming

Avalanche Peak

Arthur's Pass as if on the palm of your hand

Avalanche Peak

Climb on Avalanche Peak

Smékalovi, Kiliánovi a Hejnovi

Good bye party with our friends.

Kiliánovi a Hejnovi

Good bye party with our friends.

Our expedition in Arthur's Pass

View of the coast of Kaikoura after earthquake

Coast of Kaikoura after earthquake

High tide is never going to be that high as before.

Sun set in Arthur's Pass

Expedition on the track to Arthur's Pass

Pancake Rocks or Punakaiki

3x Helenka in Kaikoura

Overgrown tunnel on West Coast near Greymouth

Caution Penguins

Fortunately we did't run over any.

Sea view at Pancake Rocks

Old shaft and equipment for gold mining

Like the old days when there was still mined gold

Mt. Oxford

We could see almost to Christchurch

View from Mt Oxford

Tuatara

Direct descendant of dinosaurs

River in Milford Sound

New Zealand Sea Lion

Oban is a small town on Stewart island

Tui - endangered New Zealand bird

Sheeps on the cliffs

Oystercatcher

Endangered New Zealand bird

Helenka and waves

Yellow-Eyed Penguin

Waterfall

Jack's Blowhole Track

Helenka and storm at Nugget Point

There were even hailstones

Storm at Nugget Point

The world's steepest street in Dunedin

At Tunnel beach

Endangered New Zealand bird

Moeraki Boulders

On the track in Wanaka

Rob Roy track

In Wanaka Puzzle World

Another nice view

Queenstown

View from track Ben Lomond in Queenstown

Peak of Ben Lomond track in Queenstown

Dolphin in Milford Sound

On the boat in Milford Sound

That's us and the Mitre Peak

Mountains in Milford Sound

At Lake Marian

Track in Milford Sound

A refreshing bath in a mountain lake

Lupines on the road to Wanaka

Lake Pukaki

We towed a boat

Christmas cruise on the lake

I'm glad I'm still alive. 😀

Christmas in New Zealand

Czech Christmas with friends in Wanaka.

That's how we enjoyed our New Zealand Christmas

And this is how it ended

Dragon and my coleagues from work

Roofing team from Christchurch

The Middle-earth or the airport in Wellington

Trip to the party from company where I work.

Castle Hill

View of Arthur's Pass

After a few hours of walking uphill finally a good view. On the trek Bailey Spur.

Trees in New Zealand

Trees in New Zealand are often covered with mold or parasites such as the moss. But it looks like from a fairy tale.

Waterfall at Arthur's Pass Village

Kea wants to eat our lunch

Kea parrots have no fear of people and often begging for food.

Helen got a flower

Helen's birthday flower from her coworkers.

Supermoon

At Helen's birthday, we inadvertently managed to take a pictures of the moon, which was the largest over the past several decades.

Sunset on Helena's birthday

In waves

With instruktor Tom.

Helen wants to learn how to surf

Wallabies and Hele

For Helen absolutely the greatest experience of all was to pet the kangaroos Bennet in Waimate.

Kangaroo feeding

Kangaroos are just super.

Silver fern

Garden in Oamaru

There is a beautifull garden in Oamaru

Steampunk Oamaru

In Oamaru they have a great Steampunk museum. It's worth to visit.

Elephant Rocks

View from a place called Elephant Rocks. Apparently there has been filmed a few scenes from The Chronicles of Narnia.

Benmore Dam

The largest hydroelectric power plant in New Zealand.

Sheeps on the road

We and the glacier

Tasman Glacier

Tasman glacier is wonderful, but unfortunately it is smaller every year.

Helen and Mt. Cook

Across glacial lake to the highest mountain in New Zealand.

Observatory in Tekapo

The view from the hill above Lake Tekapo, which is one of the least light-polluted places in the world. Ideal for observing the stars.

Tekapo

It was beautiful at Lake Tekapo. We are happy our trip was just great.

Tekapo with ducks

U jezera Tekapo byli kachny celkem ochočené a jedli i z ruky. At Lake Tekapo ducks were tamed and ate out of our hands.

Good bye party with Lida

Our friend Lida was moving out from Christchurch, so we had a nice evening watching sunset and having a little bit of alcohol.

Our gang

Our gang at Hickory Bay with a gang of seals.

Hickory bay

Hickory Bay is known for its good conditions for surfing because two currents collides here.

Beach at Okains bay

On the beach Okains is a big cave where Czech natives organizes parties.

The whole team Noho Marae from Environment Canterbury

Helen and everyone else who was at the training.

Silver fern

This is how Silver Fern looks like. New Zealand National Plant. It's the fern what they have in emblem.

Hills and sheeps

That's how it looked there.

House where Helen lived with her colleagues

Maori house near Akaroa

Helen went on a trip with colleagues to explore Maori culture

Marshes below Mt. Sunday

One together like from the movie

Edoras and our entire travel team.

We were glad we got there. 30 km gravel road gave us a total workout.

Gingerbread heart should not be missed

Too bad that it did totally bad weather and the rain started.

Photo even with the flag

We managed to capture Edoras with the flag which was carryed by one of the illegal guides, where there was a whole bunch of them and not just one.

And we're there - Edoras

The place where was the Rohan city Edoras from Lord of the Rings shooted. Helen shows that the area falls under the office she works in (Environment Canterbury)

Just Edoras

This place has its own name and not just the film name. It is called Mount Sunday

Edoras from afar when we were arriving.

Otherwise also Mt. Sunday

Lambs

On the way to the cave we came across lambs.

In the cave a short distance from Christchurch

The giant cave in the Port Hills and gingerbread heart that our mom sent us from the Czech Republic.

Cave in the Port Hills.

Up there to the cave, we climbed up.

Cave on the sea shore

At Sumner Beach in Christchurch

2.nd Part of the crew from shooting of our short film

Within 48 hours film competition we drew lots that we must make a film with puppets. I must admit it was quite a challenge.

1.st Part of the crew from shooting of our short film

We shoot a short film within 48 hours film competition.

We're going to Edoras

Lida at the lake under the Peak Hill

Tourists

We met even other travelers. These had a roll of first aid directly on the windscreen.

View from the foot of Peak Hill

Just before when it got cloudy.

Ascent to Peak Hill

Celou dobu bylo krásně a když jsme se dostali na vrchol, tak se zatáhlo. No jo, Nový Zéland a počasí, tady to je horší než na horách a o to horší, když jsme na horách. 😀 The whole time it was beautiful but just before we got to the top it clouded over. Well, New Zealand and the weather. Here it is worse than in the mountains and even worse when we're actually in the mountains. 😀

At the foot of Peak Hill

This was pretty steep hill.

Mountain in front of us

Straight in front of us was this mountain when we went to Peak Hill.

Springfield sign

How else but also with the sign. We were here! 🙂

Springfield is also in Zélandu

How else than in Springfield with a giant donut from Simpsons.

Lake at Castle Hill

Also in Arthur's Pass

Snowball fight on Castle Hill

In a place called Arthur's Pass is Castle Hill or the place designated by Dalai Lama as a spiritual center of the universe.

Group photo with friends or rise for salute

In a place called Arthur's Pass is Castle Hill or the place designated by Dalai Lama as a spiritual center of the universe.

On spiritual center of the universe

In a place called Arthur's Pass is Castle Hill or the place designated by Dalai Lama as a spiritual center of the universe.

View of the Castle Hill

In a place called Arthur's Pass is Castle Hill or the place designated by Dalai Lama as a spiritual center of the universe.

Greetings from the Air Force museum

On the plane with our friends, Lida and Radek.

Helen arrested

Due to the disturbances in the Air Force museum Helen was pictured as a prisoner on the spot where even other tourists took pictures.

Port Hills at the transmitter with friends

With friends Dan and Lida we headed again to Port Hills just because it is simply beautiful. 🙂

View of Christchurch

New Zealand, hills and mountains

Chilling on the Port Hills

Beautiful winter day during a stroll on the Port Hills

Where we work

We work in about this area, basically in the center of Christchurch.

Dead Famous - Shooting

We're shooting the pilot episode "Dead Famous" of new series "In Production"

Helena's boots in the finish

On the way to the waterfall we got a little dirty.

Ryder waterfall

Beautiful waterfall with three cascades.

Black trees

On the way to the waterfall we came across a lot of black trees overgrown with a kind of mold.

Ryder Waterfall track

The path to the waterfall begins.

Seal pond deep in the woods

Here comes seals to give birth to young pups.

Sparrows feasting

Cone peak in Hanmer Springs

Idyll in Hanmer Springs

Blue river

As always, another New Zealand river clean and drinkable.

Frost vs. Sun

Here we spent the night on our way from Kaikoura to Hanmer Springs and when we woke up we had about centimeter layer of ice on the windshield.

Seal pups

At Kaikoura

Path to Kaikoura

Flower on a cliff

At Taylor's Mystake

Idyll at Taylor's Mistake

Helen and reefs

Reefs at Taylor's mystake

Good 'pigeons' return

We scare away seagulls but they always came back.

Seagull and a rainbow

Seagull posed for a few pictures, but this one came out best. 🙂

Beach in the Sumner area

That day was probably ideal for surfing. We saw a lot of surfers.

View from a roof which we have been building

We are building ANZ bank

Our friend Hedgehog

In the garden Helen found a hedgehog. He seemed to die, but we managed to cure him.

Pier with a boat in Lytteltonu

City center of Lyttelton is not nice at all but when you go little bit more far you can discover a lot of small bays and wonderful places like this.

Angler's pier in Lyttelton

Lyttelton is a small industrial city and local asians comes here to fish food to their restaurants or just like that for a dinner.

Cathedral in Christchurch

Or a living memory of the destructive earthquake.

Cathedral in Christchurch

Or a living memory of the destructive earthquake.

In the Christchurch botanic garden

Fountain with such a beautifull rainbow we just had to shoot.

Sunset nad over the swamp in the Bottle Lake Forest

Nowhere else in the world in the woods we weren't in collecting mushrooms, mussels and seen crabs walking.

On the road to Bottle Lake Forest

Beautifull sceneries and 4 hour trip ahead of us.

Right genuine auction

We were swept up to a giant auction, which takes place in Akaroa once a year.

The journey back to Christchurch

For a trip back to Christchurch we have chosen a different path. It was shorter, but much worst road. Luckily we saw places which we would otherwise miss.

Sunset in Akaroa

Akaroa is a wonderful place. We highly recommend you to visit it.

The place where we stayed overnight

With Vojta at our campsite.

Birdlings Flat

Beautiful beach where we found a wonderful pebbles.

The journey to the town of Akaroa

We drove a lot uphill, downhill and uphill and then more so 1000 times, but it was worth it.

One selfie

It was wonderful.

Helen and Amandine

So here we swam.

Signpost at the Christchurch gondola

So now we know how far is it to Europe.

River Waimakariri

At river Waimakariri are these pools which were tempting us to swim in them.

View to Castle Rock

Beautifull day and even better view.

New Zealand sheeps

It does not seem, but there were plenty of them.

Castle rock and sheeps

Hill above the Christchurch.

Helen and hill above Christchurch

View to Lyttelton harbour.

Christchurch

Christchurch does not appear like that, but it is quite a big city.

Sheep hill

So what? How many sheeps have you counted?

Our firs car at New Zealand

Toyota Estima from 1997. We never drove such a big van.

Helen, Amandie, Viktor

On the pier in Christchurch with our French roommate Amandine.

Viktor and Helen on Christchurch pier

Our roommate Amandine took a picture of us.

Fishing guide on the pier in Christchurch

Fishing guide and what you can catch here. You can catch here even endangered species of dolphin. 🙂

Rating: 5.000

Seagull waiting for the remains after fishermen

On the pier in New Brighton is a lot of seagulls who like to beg some food from people. They are quite tame, so you can get to them really close.

New Brighton pier

At the bank of the city of Christchurch is this beautifull pier which leads from a local library directly to the sea.

Up on the pier

On the pier there are everyvhere benches and the places where fishermans can gut their catch. You can catch here whatever you want but it is forbidden to sell it.