After a 7am departure from Rangitata, we had a short drive to Christchurch, where I hopped off the Stray bus for the last time to catch my flight to Bangkok to start my Cambodia & Vietnam trip. I took a quick trip into the city of Christchurch to see the damage from the big earthquake back in February 2011. It was devastating to see, the whole city is destroyed. Particularly the old buildings are gone and they have put up make shift shops where these buildi...

Last night in New Zealand :( and a pretty boring one at that. We went to a place called Rangitata, which very much felt like a very small English village. There were hundreds of sheep on the road on the way into the village. The only thing to do there was a rafting day, which we didn't know about until we got there. It was pretty chilled. We watched The Beach film and I had a pretty good laugh with the people there. The new group on this bus were a really nice bu...

Today I had a new Stray driver which was a little weird after having Salty for all this time and also had a full bus of totally new people for the last two days of my trip. The drive today was beautiful over the Lindis Pass, past lake Pukaki which had beautiful blue water. We arrived at our hostel at the base of Mount Cook, the weather was amazing today so the scenery was stunning. We did a four hour walk through Hooker pass right to the base of Mount Cook. The...

After a lie in at Gunn's Camp, we came back to Queenstown via Te-Anau again where I had my first proper breakfast in ages...the 'Mighty Muffin'. One last night in Queenstown before the last leg of my trip starts. I said bye to our driver Salty today and to my few friends I have made. We finished up with a famous Ferg Burger (see pic). These are famous for being the biggest burgers in New Zealand. They are not only big, but they are also delicious. I was probably...

Well the restful night paid off because I felt like a different person this morning, not 100%, but so so much better. Off to Milford Sound today. So excited about this now. On the way there we stopped in Te-anau for lunch, then it was an amazing drive into Milford; huge mountains topped with snow and narrow waterfalls trickling down the sheer sides of the mountains. It was a steep descent into Milford. This 'Sound' is actually a fjord caused by a glacier. We go...