The ferry took around 3 and a half hours and is a very scenic crossing. We stayed the night in Wellington and visited the botanic gardens the next day before making our way up to Lake Taupo. We spent 3 nights here and visited Rotorua which is one big geo thermal valley. We visited one of the largest Geysers to watch it erupt, what they didn't mention when we paid to go in is that they throw a bag of soap inside the Geyser to induce it, haha, not very natural bu...

From Christchurch we drove down to Lake Tekapo which was a beautiful little lake surrounded by mountains! We visited some hot pools and tried out our new underwater camera, check out the pics!! Pete drove from Tekapo down to Queenstown and within the first couple of hours received a speeding ticket, oops!! Queenstown was stunning and we were spoilt for choice with activities. We chickened out of the bungy and decided upon a zip wire through the forest which was ...

Day #1 Stayed in what was the centre of Christchurch. Had the honour of being the first pickup from the centre the car rental guy had done since the earthquake.