The ferry ride across to Wellington was alot more bearable than the ferry ride from mainland Thailand to Koh Tao haha. We chilled out, watched a couple of movies and by the time we knew it we were in Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. As it was about 11pm we headed up to Mt victoria Lookout, which apparently offers amazing views of the city. we thought we would camp up here so that we could see the city and harbour in the morning, it was a lovely view t...

When we arrived in kaikoura the weather was shocking, all whale watching trips had been cancelled for the day as they rely on planes etc to spot the whales for the boats and it was to cloudy to spot any, plus the sea was too rough. We went to the whale watching centre and I asked the woman what the weather was like for the next day but it didn't look promising and she didn't give us much hope in the way she cam across. As we only had 2.5 weeks left to do the Nort...

From Motueka, we randomly passed Abel Tasman Skydive Centre. The weather was perfect and spontaneously we decided this is where we wanted to do our skydive, with amazing views of sourrounding mountains, Abel Tasman National Park and the famous Golden Bay. Within 15 minutes we had signed our lives away and were quickly geared up. After watching some people jump out of the plane and land it was our turn. We got interviewed on how we felt for the skydive video and t...

Along the coastal drive to Punakaiki we thaught we saw a whale at one of the lookouts, there were no questions that it were an animal, and it was way to big to be a seal or dolphin.. it was causing some large splashing, but we didnt see a decent view of its flute come up - so we are still unsure, but it was very big! Further on we arrived at the pancake rocks, some natural rock formations that have formed over thousends and thousends of years (by micro-organisms ...

To get to fOX Glacier we had to drive trhough some of Mount Aspiring national Park.. crossing the Haste River Bridge, with some fast flowing rapids below it!! Shortly after we came across Thunder Creek Falls, a short rainforest walk to the 28 M high waterfall, carved ut by an old Glacier. It was definately one of the more impressive waterfalls that we have seen in New Zealand so far! After a long windy scenic drive, we arribed at Fox Village towards late afternoo...