Fox or Franz Josef Glacier

We are group of 3 adults and 2 kids visiting the west coast of NZ in
mid-February. Due to the tight schedule, we can only spend at most half a
day in one of the twin glaciers. We do not expect to have long glacier walk,
but a flight with soft landing. Any suggestion?

Meanwhile, is it worthwhile to play a visit to the glowing worm cave or Lake
Matheson? If so, should we stay in Fox or FJ.

Many thanks,
Victor

Hi, it´s Maike...but it´s not my computer...

I´ve been in NZ recently and did the full day walk at the Franz
Glacier...and I really would recommend it! It was worth it, definitly! But
it was pretty hard as well... so the half day walk would be worth the money
too (espacially with children). But how old are your children? And Franz is
more spec.! If you´re interessted I could give you the name of the
organisation! It was fantastic so don´t miss it! We can keep in touch.

"Victor" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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We are group of 3 adults and 2 kids visiting the west coast of NZ in
mid-February. Due to the tight schedule, we can only spend at most half a
day in one of the twin glaciers. We do not expect to have long glacier
walk,
but a flight with soft landing. Any suggestion?

Meanwhile, is it worthwhile to play a visit to the glowing worm cave or
Lake
Matheson? If so, should we stay in Fox or FJ.

Many thanks,
Victor

Kids need to be 12+ from memory for paid glacier walks.

We walked to the terminus of FJ and up just a LITTLE way by ourselves (and
lots of other unescorted people).

If you have time, the glow worm tours from Te Anau are the ones to do - not
that I even knew there were any at Matheison.

Oh, and hire a camper great fun with a family (see earlier posts on
car/camper in this forum, about 5 days ago)


"Heinz Fermum" wrote in message
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Hi, it´s Maike...but it´s not my computer...

I´ve been in NZ recently and did the full day walk at the Franz
Glacier...and I really would recommend it! It was worth it, definitly! But
it was pretty hard as well... so the half day walk would be worth the
money
too (espacially with children). But how old are your children? And Franz
is
more spec.! If you´re interessted I could give you the name of the
organisation! It was fantastic so don´t miss it! We can keep in touch.

"Victor" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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We are group of 3 adults and 2 kids visiting the west coast of NZ in
mid-February. Due to the tight schedule, we can only spend at most half
a
day in one of the twin glaciers. We do not expect to have long glacier
walk,
but a flight with soft landing. Any suggestion?

Meanwhile, is it worthwhile to play a visit to the glowing worm cave or
Lake
Matheson? If so, should we stay in Fox or FJ.

Many thanks,
Victor

in article , Victor at
wrote on 27/1/05 4:20 AM:

We are group of 3 adults and 2 kids visiting the west coast of NZ in
mid-February. Due to the tight schedule, we can only spend at most half a
day in one of the twin glaciers. We do not expect to have long glacier walk,
but a flight with soft landing. Any suggestion?

Meanwhile, is it worthwhile to play a visit to the glowing worm cave or Lake
Matheson? If so, should we stay in Fox or FJ.

Many thanks,
Victor


If you stay at Fox it will only take you about 15 min to drive to lake
Matheson & you can wait until you see what the weather is like before you go
down. It is a 40 min walk to the "View-of-views". The glow worms are right
in Franz Josef Village from memory. Both glacier flight companies offer
similar deals and will land on whichever glacier has the best snow
conditions.

Vicki