Punakaiki Pancake Rocks + Denniston Mine, West Coast | South Island New Zealand Road Trip Vlog 2/4

[@hakaraiaking3055]

My new routine, make food, set up my lounge, chrome cast KZbin to my TV and watch a Sunday episode 😁

[@PeterandYen]

❤ 😁 appreciate you, thank you for adding us to your Sunday routine ❤

[@SundaiLove]

Shoot gotta go back and watch the Christchurch one!

[@PeterandYen]

😁✌

[@lifewithLucyNZ]

I love watching Peter try food and his expressions, awesome video guys love from South Africa

[@PeterandYen]

Hahahaha thank you Lucille 😁 good food gets good reactions 😆

[@ChandySaoStreeteats]

The Dennison minesite looked amazing. Nice to see some of the old remnants still there today. :)

[@PeterandYen]

Glad they left all the old coal wagons there gave the place a very lost in time feel 😯

[@maflelei22]

Wow

[@PeterandYen]

Beautiful day 💕

[@eronvirtudazo3975]

Why do I have this thought of riding that wagon all the way down. LOL 😂 It would definitely be a most thrilling and unique travel experience to have there in New Zealand. Just kidding. ✌️ Anyway, another great content to watch before sleeping. Can't wait for the next part. 🤗

[@PeterandYen]

😂 that sounds like it would be an excellent amusement park ride 🤔 hmmmm actually rainbows end has a ride called gold rush must have been created from a similar thought process 😂

[@bromie21]

Great geology lesson Peter 👍

[@PeterandYen]

Hahaha thanks mate 👍😄 I think it took me 5 tries to get it right 😂

[@intrepidadventurer1932]

Yeah those rocks be amazing to see, all you need is syrup, as someone commented as a joke! Haha! Impressed that the walkway is really good around the pancake rocks! I love it how you include so many facts about the location too! Super cool!

[@PeterandYen]

Such an awesome and unique spot! We were hoping to get the water shooting out but the waves weren't strong enough that day. Glad you enjoy the facts 🙂👍 we learn heaps too when researching for our places we visit 😁

[@KimchiAndBeansVideos]

Nothing like an electric blanket when it's cold. We can relate. Rain does affect recording. We can relate there too. Our last few trips have been raining most of the time. Love the name pancake rocks and the views at 4:11... Wow. Beautiful rock formations.

[@PeterandYen]

😅 yeah it does make it a lot harder to vlog right ahhhh well snuggle up in the electric blanket instead 😂

[@LifetimeTravelmates]

Wow look at the shape of the Pancake Rocks! so cool guys. and mind blowing landscape as well...😍and the lamb and jesus beef rendang!!!! yum!!!! what a nice food after the beautiful walk...🚶‍♂️

[@PeterandYen]

An amazing place for sure the pancake 🥞 rocks 🪨 were just amazing just like that rendang 😁🤙

[@darylmckay]

So jealous 😫. My mum was born and bred on the West Coast, but I've barely been there ever. Once to Hokitika for the Wild Foods Festival and a couple of times over to visit friends when they lived in Reefton.

[@PeterandYen]

It was such an awesome trip, you'll have something to look forward to in the future Daryl. I'm jealous of you going to the wild did festival def want to attend that one day 😯👍

[@darylmckay]

@@PeterandYen it's well worth it! Even going in the 2nd or 3rd year it ran, it was already huge. Until I get back there I can at least enjoy your adventures 😃👍

[@PeterandYen]

😁👍 we are looking forward to getting the vaccine "soonish" might mean overseas adventures might finally happen

[@darylmckay]

@@PeterandYen looking forward to that myself 👍😃. It'll finally be worth renewing my passport...

[@arstiahsu793]

Wooohooo this is the Pancake Rocks that I want to visit! The other time you brought us to Raglan pancake rocks. I guess there were two pancake rocks sites. Thanks Peter, Yen.🤗

[@PeterandYen]

Hahaha yes! Pancake 🥞 rocks 🪨 are so interesting, the pathway for this site was amazing as it incorporated the water and the rocks in such a stunning way 😍

[@FoodandFootprints]

Those pancake rocks are so cool! Definitely a magical looking place

[@PeterandYen]

It was an awesome walk, really well designed and the camera just can't capture the true beauty of it

[@RudyVisuals]

2:32 this little guy seems to be checking if you guys brought him some food 😄

[@PeterandYen]

😂 I think you're right

[@RaceCarFriends]

Just from watching the video it seems like this part of the South Island isn't as windy as where you were before.

[@PeterandYen]

😅 I think we were just lucky on this specific day. Apparently most of the time the mines especially are really rainy 🌧

[@RaceCarFriends]

@@PeterandYen Oh wow okay, well I'm happy you guys got lucky, I'm looking forward to your next video.

[@PeterandYen]

I don't wanna spoil anything for next week's video so I won't say no more 😂

[@RaceCarFriends]

@@PeterandYen Aww man now I'm going to be wondering about this all week! lol

[@mariaandbryan]

We really enjoy seeing all your Airbnbs. Modern family is awesome, we have watched it over and over, the entire show with all the seasons lol. Yen, you have a really nice sweater, and hope it keeps you warm all over "Peter Bird Watch Cam" hahahaha Rocks and birds, we are huge fans as well 😂😂 What an awesome Asian Fusion restaurant. Yen the beef rendang looks so tender and yummy. The tracks down there look rusty, I bet even back in the days it was kinda scary to go over there. Incredible views and nature everywhere. Thanks guys for showing another amazing place in NZ

[@PeterandYen]

Thanks guys! 💕💕 Yes same here!! Really love modern family and have watched it many times too. So sad it's over though but they had such a great run 🙂 Hahaha rocks and birds are awesome 😆👍👍 the food was so yum and yea the living conditions in Denniston sounded like they definitely were extremely challenging.. that track use to be the only way up and down!

[@KimchiAndBeansVideos]

Ufff... It's breakfast time over here but would love to eat what you guys are having. That beef stew! I agree that going to those old mines give you a different perspective of what life used to be like back in the day. Those are HUGE wagons.

[@PeterandYen]

Ahhhh that lamb and beef stew were just amazing. So many great flavors warms you right up on a cold winter day 🔥

[@berttroubleyn3475]

Did the Punakaiki rocks when I was in NZ over a decade ago! Wonderfull editing, guys, as always!

[@PeterandYen]

O nice 👌 glad you got to see this too Bert, we were really impressed with the trail especially since part of it cut through the actual limestone and there were interesting high points and low points. Who ever designed the route did an awesome job 👏

[@seliamatonks3406]

Good morning lovelies❤️❤️

[@PeterandYen]

Morning actually evening 😁❤

[@FoodandFootprints]

Ohhh gulai kambing is a great choice, Peter! And paired with that yellow rice even better 🤤🤤

[@PeterandYen]

Mmmmm the slow cooked meat 🍖 was just incredible

[@RudyVisuals]

yum beef rendang on a cold day is so perfect!

[@PeterandYen]

💯 right about that!

[@barryeldridge2998]

hi again now i can see that it must be a lot colder on the south island coz it is so rare to see peter not wearing shorts haha . still find your vids so fascinating and well produced . enjoyed it so much but so much missing my travels too. take care on your travels and iam waiting patiently for the next installment

[@PeterandYen]

Hahaha Barry the south island winter cannot be compared to the north island. It's way colder down there. Yen n I will be able to get the vaccine in August maybe so finally might be able to go overseas again 🤞

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Oh yummm!! Indonesian food 😍😍 That nasi kuning (yellow turmeric rice) looks amazing. Good one to pair with lamb gulai and beef rendang. Classic combo 👌🏻

[@PeterandYen]

O it was so good 👍 perfect comfort food for winter

[@TwoHungryDiners]

Those pancake rock formations look incredible!!! 😍 Wowww they took million years 🤯 It would be cool if the colour of the rocks is white or brown haha, so it looks like the real thing 😆

[@PeterandYen]

😂 hahahaha imagine that, giant tasty looking pancakes 🥞

[@NorjahanAKarim]

Wonderful video again. Scrumptious Indonesian meal.

[@PeterandYen]

😁👍 thank you! Yes we were super happy to find such good Indonesian food in a small kiwi town

[@mandyng8752]

We went Pancake Rocks in December, now watching this episode can see what it looks like in Winter season. Love your videos. We spent a lot of time research a 2 weeks road trip itinerary for South Island, then also for North Island before we did our road trip NZ. Would you consider doing such an episode since you are NZ experts

[@PeterandYen]

🤔 I always think that's so difficult cause everyone is interested in such different things. I usually just look for everything that's interesting in an area and go to as many as possible 😂 how was the west coast in December?

[@linnyunt]

Congrats on 30k, guys!

[@PeterandYen]

Thanks Lin 🙌

[@Edwin__Official]

Its weird seeing Peter not wearing shorts 😂 it's like something isn't right..

[@PeterandYen]

😂 North island winter i can do... South island needs a level up

[@RochelNilendra]

Love Peter's expression when he is eating something :D

[@PeterandYen]

The more expressive he is, the more you know he enjoys it haha 😆👍

[@RochelNilendra]

@@PeterandYen Hahaha 😆

[@FoodandFootprints]

Swear you guys always have treats at every AirBnb!

[@PeterandYen]

😂 yeah it does seem like it.. we're just lucky

[@FoodandFootprints]

Nice clock tower in Denniston!

[@PeterandYen]

That was in Westport just after we left the restaurant had to capture it before we left 😁

[@LanaTiare]

Very tidy Airbnb! I love Modern Family, it's so easy to watch. Really good value for the price. Yen your skin looks so good! Cute, you guys see all the birds. Which Pancake rocks did you like more? Wow! It's so amazing how they were formed. That food looks so delish! I miss Indonesian food! Really interesting about the coal mines, must've been such a hard life back then. Seems like a great place to learn about some NZ history :)

[@PeterandYen]

I would say Punakaiki takes the cake 🎂 for the rocks 🪨 they just look super impressive. Raglan is fun cause you get to kayak there 😁

[@LanaTiare]

@@PeterandYen So cool! Will have to visit there then. The Raglan one sounds like fun 🤩

[@PeterandYen]

Maybe not in this freezing cold like today but in summer definitely 😂

[@LanaTiare]

@@PeterandYen Yes true! Will have to visit in summer 😆

[@dmt2000x]

Awesome. You guys should’ve done the Truman track in punakaiki though… you would’ve loved it. Westport looks good. Haven’t been back in 17 years.

[@PeterandYen]

Oooo googled it and the Truman track looks awesome 😯 will have to go back some day maybe when we head over for the hokitika wild foods festival 😁

[@dmt2000x]

@@PeterandYen yeah man, it’s a real awesome, magical spot. Out of everywhere I’ve been in New Zealand, thats my favourite place. When you go there… look for the way through the cliff face on the far end of the bay, past the large sea cave with the waterfall. There’s more bays to explore with more sea caves… and green stones to be found.

[@PeterandYen]

😯 Green stones that sounds super cool, yen bought a piece for me last year. Would be real cool to find one ourselves though. Thanks for sharing your local tips 👌

[@RudyVisuals]

Thank you Peter for the explanation! I was about to google how the pancake rocks were made for some reason when I first saw them on your instagram I imagined a person stacking them 😅

[@PeterandYen]

Hahahaha took a couple of takes for this one but finally got there 😄

[@Golfadventureswithchris]

The Dennison Mine would be interesting to explore if that was possible

[@PeterandYen]

There used to be tours of the mine but unfortunately that closed recently

[@Shotbyfelixx]

This place looks cool, just like all places in NZ 😁

[@PeterandYen]

💯😁👍

[@SundaiLove]

Is lamb super popular over there ?

[@PeterandYen]

I would say it's ok.. not super popular. Beef, pork and chicken def more staples. I think a lot of ppl don't like the gaminess. Also though there are a lot of sheep 🐑 somehow lamb meat is still relatively expensive.

[@leetetroy3052]

Hidden gem next time your back along this coast.. Google 'Motukiekie Beach', lil off the beaten track, but so worth the adventure!

[@PeterandYen]

Thank you for the recommendation looks like an awesome spot 👍

[@rob1971]

It looks like you had a great day out and I'm glad you appreciated Denniston 🙂 is quite a drive to get up there, isn't it? I'm sure I read somewhere that the men used to come up and down that rail line in the wagons as well, it wasn't just the coal! Thanks for the shout out too! ❤️

[@PeterandYen]

Had an awesome day 😁👍 the drive was totally worth it, after going from Wellington back to Auckland in a day this was an easy route hahaha. Ah yes we read that too.. seeing things like this make us appreciate that the generations before us had life so much harder 😅 No worries for the shout out thank you for all the support over the years 😁❤

[@rob1971]

@@PeterandYen so glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, Wellington back to Auckland is a much worse drive than Punakaiki to Denniston, both quite scenic at points though 🙂 You're right there, we're very lucky with when we were born and that we don't have to live in those conditions, it must have been such a hard life. You're very welcome, I love your videos and it's so nice to be able to enjoy the content and contribute too 😊

[@SeoulMan2020]

Definitely blows everything out of the water 💦… wow… looked absolutely breathtaking (and glad there were places to take photos safely 📸😁). It never ceases to amaze me how you guys find awesome food in remote places… Indonesian food made my mouth water…even the rice with the ambiguous flavor😂.. “I’m sure there’s gotta be a flavor in there” - best food description ever😁😁😁. Great great vid! Looking forward to the next one! Safe travels guys! ps - was rooting for Peter to spot some🐬🥲

[@PeterandYen]

Hahahaha this was such a random find, the restaurant was attached to the owners home. Didn't know what to expect but the flavors of the beef and lamb were home cooking at its best. Reminded us a lot of the places in Bali 😁 yen appreciated that the pun was not missed on you 😂 and one day, we will see a dolphin, I've been in the water with a pink river dolphin in Singapore.. amazing memory it even kissed my check 😁

[@SeoulMan2020]

@@PeterandYen that’s awesome 🐬!!!! Dolphins are such amazing animals…there’s a resident pod of dolphins where my wife and I surf in California… so awesome to see them surf alongside you. Dolphins were a big part of how I proposed to my wife (long story) because how much we love watching them in the wild. I wish I could show you this vid my friend in Hawaii made of him diving with wild dolphins… truly amazing animals… I hope you and Yen get the chance (I’m sure you will) to experience them in the wild (almost as cool as seeing tuataras). Still hungry from your vid (I’m currently eyeballing a Singaporean restaurant as I write this 🤤).

[@PeterandYen]

Ooooo that proposal sounds so awesome! You're gonna have to tell us the long version sometime. Must be an amazing experience surfing 🏄‍♀️next to them.. do you get scared when you only see the fin come up like ooo no there's a shark? 😂 and yo Korean zombie FTW 🧟‍♀️

[@SeoulMan2020]

@@PeterandYen definitely gets the heart racing when I see a fin... there have been a lot of great white sightings where I used to surf😲. Had to look up pink river dolphins...very very cool. 🇰🇷🧟‍♂️😁😁😁

[@PeterandYen]

O woops my bad yen just pointed out the dolphin we saw was the indo Pacific humpback dolphin rather than the pink n River dolphin 🐬 😁

[@arstiahsu793]

It is called Nasi kunyit (turmeric rice) or nasi kuning (yellow rice) but not sure though what are ingredients in there. I only know they use colouring. 🙂

[@PeterandYen]

Ooo nice thanks for the name of that rice... yeah seems just coloring rather than flavor hahaha

[@FoodandFootprints]

“Enjoying all the pancakes, bud?” 😂

[@PeterandYen]

😂 pancakes 🥞

[@jcprintworks2974]

Gado-gado itself is an Indonesian style salad, covered with peanut sauce.

[@PeterandYen]

Ooo sounds tasty 🤤 thanks for the additional info

[@mamaathome5681]

Lovely 🍜🥘🍲👏

[@PeterandYen]

😁👍

[@SundaiLove]

What the heck is a shagg ?

[@PeterandYen]

😂 it depends on the context but in this context it is those birds 🐦 on the rocks. In another context it could also mean something very different 😂

[@berttroubleyn3475]

@@PeterandYen 😂😂😂 @Sundai Love: They are a type of cormorant, if you know those. They hunt for food in water but can barely float. When they swim in the water, they barely manage to keep their neck and head above water making them look like snakes - I've heard people in the north of Namibia call them snake birds.

[@SundaiLove]

@@PeterandYen I swear y’all have a whole nother language

[@PeterandYen]

🤣🤣🤣

[@luceliaperalta5496]

Hello there !

[@PeterandYen]

boa noite 😁👋

[@gazalakitchenandvlogs4680]

Amazing I have subscribe this chennal

[@mate6079]

你们的英语很地道，看你们频道学习地道当地英语和新西兰知识，学到了很多。

[@PeterandYen]

谢谢你的收看。我们在新西兰长大