The last few days in New Zealand have been filled with more activities and sight seeing as we have been exploring Christchurch and trying to maximize what little Kiwi time we have left. The journey from Queenstown took just under eight hours but we stopped at some amazing little pit stops en route and the scenery was breathtaking as all around us were snow capped mountains and crystal clear lakes. When we arrived we managed to find a great little hostel just a te...

The third section of our trip around the bottom the country, was up towards Te Anau. It was a pretty lazy drive up through the countryside with a stop at one museum and information centre that employs the dumbest staff ever. Once in Te Anau, it was time for a group meal and we managed to cook enough Lasagne to last us until we leave New Zealand!! Today's section of the trip was the highlight, as we went to Milford Sounds, which is a huge area that has been carve...

This morning we left Dunedin behind and headed for Curio Bay near Riverton. Our first stop was Nugget Point, where there are several rocks jutting out from the ocean that are supposed to resemble gold nuggets. Although we couldn't see the resemblance ourselves, the views were pretty good. Then it was a short drive around to a beach where we came face to face with a few sea lions - bloody great fat ones! Next it was on to Lake Wilkie where we did a very short wal...

We left Queenstown on Sunday and headed to Dunedin, home to the scarfies (students) and the 'House Of Pain' rugby stadium. We arrived around 1:00pm and first stop was Baldwin Street, officially the steepest street in the world according to the Guinness book of records. There is a race held every year and people run from the bottom to the top and back again in around two minutes - needless to say, it took us a little while longer to get just to the top. Once we we...

Today is our last day in Queenstown, having been here for nine days now, before we head south on the bottom bus. Since we have been here we have indulged ourselves a little in much frivolity and various forms of entertainment. When we first arrived, we booked ourselves a snowboarding package for a week, that included a couple of lessons so that we could progress from falling on our asses on the beginner slopes. After the first couple of days we were improving qu...