Once again we arrived in Christchurch and since we hadn't seen anything last time we decided to walk and have a look around. First of all we had to found our hostel, so with our backpacks on we walked about 30 minutes before we found it. Feeling lighter without our lovely bags we walked to the red zone in the city. Christchurch suffered a bad earthquake in Feb 2011 and the city is still earily quiet and derilict, the red zone is just full of ruble and fences bloc...

After a very long hourney of around 11 hours, stopping at just a couple of places, one of which being the most photographed church in NZ, we arrive in Christchurch. Seeing as we had an early get up of 6.30 we stayed in and watched a film then headed to bed. Bright and early in the moring we were ready to set off for Kaikoura. I looked as if i'd had 0 hours sleep this morning and felt like it too. We arrived in Kaikoura around 11.30ish and after checking in headed...

Driving into Queenstown, me and Amy decided that we were going to have a go on the canyon swing and do a tandem fall. We stopped off at the AJ Hackett bungee centre for people to sign up for their bungees (we didnt quite dare do this one!!) AJ Hackett was the company that first started Bungy jumps, we watched a couple of people do the bungee off of the original AJ Hackett bridge, which was a 40m fall. A few people who had signed up for Nevis (3 times the height o...

We set off after our ice explorer hike to a small town called Wanaka. Because we had completed our hike in the morning instead of the previous day we were leaving franz josef a lot later than the driver had hoped so it was quite a speedy drive to Wanaka. We had a few stop offs along the way, one of which was at lake, where on a clear day you can get the reflection of the Mount Cook onto Lake Matheson. Unfortunately for us it was a pretty miserable afternoon so th...

After a messy night at the pub literally as there were leaves cards and bin bags everywhere we made it on the bus slightley drunk/hungover! We made a vital stop at a randem possum musuem but we skipped that part and got a cooked breakfast to feel human again! Lots of travelling later we arrived in Franz Joseph where we are going to do our Glacier hike! The Rainforest Retreat lodge was really nice and we went in the hot tub which was actually too hot to stand for ...