After Queenstown we moved onto Christchurch for a few days, Christchurch was spent sorting out Xmas shopping and posting stuff back home as well as going out to celebrate Chris and Steve’s 21st birthdays! Was a great night out and an amazing meal, one of the best steaks I’ve ever had – 500g, looked half a cow!! From Christchurch we said our goodbyes to everyone we’d met along the way! We had a massive group of us that had all got close, th...

The next morning we stopped off at puzzle world and tried to complete the maze, but ended up getting lost and gave up and went to the illusion rooms, not the best experience when you’re hung over!! The leaning room almost made me sick! We got back on the bus and made our way into Queenstown, the adrenaline capital of New Zealand!! Our first stop in Queenstown was the Kawarau bridge, which was the first ever commercial bungy site in the world, we got a tour ...

The next stop after Franz Joseph was a town called Wanaka. The journey to Wanaka took quite a few hours but the scenery was out of this world, firstly you stop off at Lake Matheson and get a perfect mirror reflection of Mt Cook and the Southern Alps! Next you pass through the Haast region, which has some of the best views of mountains, rivers and waterfalls I’ve ever seen!! We arrived in Wanaka and didn’t leave our hotel room until the evening when we...

From there we stopped off at Franz Joseph, it felt like a ski resort the town centre itself but you can see why so many people come there! Franz Joseph is a massive ice glacier on the side of Mt Cook. On our day in Franz Joseph we did a heli-hike. We got to have a 20-minute helicopter flight up and over the top of the glacier and then it sets you down 3 quarters of the way up the glacier. Here you are met by your guide, put your ice spikes on and get to spend 4 h...

Our next stop from Nelson was Lake Mahinapua, which is exactly in the middle of nowhere!! Thought the driver was having a laugh when we pulled up at the pub! Although once inside you could see why the kiwi bus stops there every time, the place is run by an old all black legend called Les Lisle he’s in his 90’s now but still very young at heart, he put on a massive feast for the night and in the evening the bar gets transformed and everyone on the bus ...