We arrived in Christchurch at another base backpackers, we were a little fed up of hostels by now so paid an extra couple of pounds to stay in the penthouse which had a kitchen and tv room between about 15 of us so wasnt too bad! Christchurch was meant to be the most english like city, there was a nice square with a cathedral and a Tram network. We were determined to shop till we drop in Christchurch however we were a little dissapointed with the city. There wasn...

Day 1 So we depatered Wanaka early to head towards Queenstown for a fun packed day!! Our first stop was Puzzle World. It was great fun, it was like being a big kid again (then again it doesn't take much with us lot!). The outside Maze was funny, i think we lasted for about 30mins before we got frustrated cause we couldnt find the towers, we ended up going out of an exit door and going for our bacon sandwich! The illusion room was also a good one, it felt as if w...

We got up early and hit the road on our way to Wanaka. We stopped off on the way at Lake Matheson and went on a little hike to see the mirror reflection of the Mt Cook and the Southern Alps in the Lake. It was absolutely stunning... I am in love with this place seriously!!! We then crossed the bridge at Gates of Haast and headed up the pass to Mount aspiring National Park. The drive through to Wanaka is absolutely stunning, especially as we entered the Otago re...

So we started off this morning and headed to Franz Josef. We stopped off for some breakfast at a place called Pukekura at the Bushman's centre which was known for its homemade Possom Pies - safe to say we gave that one a miss!! Soa fter filling our tummys with food we hit the road again through to Franz Josef. When we arrived there we stopped at the Franz Josef Glacier guide office and paid off our glacier activities for the following day, we were doing the full ...

We left Nelson and headed to Nelson Lakes, Beautiful!! Loz and Steph sunbathed whilst I went on a short bush walk with some of the others off our bus. We then headed onto Westport through Murchison where we winded our way down the Buller Gorge. Steph had signed up to do horse riding in Westport, whilst Loz and I were going for the extreme jetboat ride. It was cool... was like a speed boat and he did loads of 360s and span us round whilst getting us soaked...again...