...I decide I won't do the last trek after all - I'm tired and deserve some rest. No more hiking from now....I drive to Dunedin through very scenic areas, as always. And I pass what must be the fruit supply center for the whole country because signs advertising cherries for sale pop up literally every 100 m. Expensive though....in Dunedin I visit Baldwin Street, the world's steepest street. My feeble car barely makes it up there, especially that's...

...I wake up and conclude it's good I still have some dry clothes for the last day....I run out of gas because I had thought mistakenly huts were equipped with cookers (other national parks sometimes do have cookers in huts) so only lukewarm tea and no warm breakfast...I set out, trying to use my ziplock bags to protect everything fragile inside my pack as I have no rain cover anymore...weather is not too bad and drizzle is light while the wind is not very st...

...after another short walk around town I conclude that the whole area is overrun by Scots and Irishmen (I mean people working in bars and sales staff)...I post some more postcards and notice that this time both he mailbox and the stamps have a different postal service name on them. Must be a South Island thing. Glad that I put those in Auckland into the correct box!...I go to the Visitors Center to buy two tickets for huts in about to spend the night during my u...

...I wake up tired and walk around Queenstown, wondering how on Earth they squeezed so many adrenaline activities in one place: you can do everything here from canyoning, rappelling, all kinds of surfing, cave exploring, jet boat rides, jet ski, skydiving, paragliding and everything else you can dream of...I find out that in limited time parking streets city police mark your tire with chalk and then check again if you're still there after a certain time has p...

...the sunrise is indeed amazing but I wake up a little late for it. Still, I take nice morning shots of the surrounding mountains and glaciers and there even is an avalanche coming down in the distance...I check out at the visitor center and drive the same way along the lake Pukaki back toward Tekapo. Views are amazing this time on account of clear weather....I marvel how many times I leave my valuables on the front seat (iPad, camera, phone) and go to eat in pe...