Dunedin is in the Otago area of New Zealand, which is much further south than we had been so far, and you could tell by how cold it was. We arrived late in the afternoon so we just had dinner and went to bed. The lady at the camp reception told us about a place where there were gloworms that came out at night. We did get ready to go, but then decided it was too dark and cold to bother!

We got up early the next morning and caught a bus into Dunedin's town centre, which is called the Octogan. We had a walk around there and then spent the rest of the morning walking around the Art Gallery and the Otago museum. We stopped to take a picture of the railway station on the way as apparantly this is the most photographed building in the whole of New Zealand. It was a nice day, although very cold, and Dunedin was a nice city just to have a stroll around in. There wasn't really that much to do though so we were glad we only decided to stay for two nights. In the afternoon we stopped at a cafe for lunch and a hot drink to warm us up and then made our way back to the campsite for dinner. The camp was really nice and had a very warm TV area which we sat in for most of that night as the van was freezing!

The next morning we got up early to make our way to Te Anau on the south west coast. On the way out of the city we stopped off at Baldwin Street as it is the steepest street anywhere in the world. It was a bit crazy and almost went straight up in places. Neither of us could be bothered to climb it though so I just took a picture! I decided that it would be nice to take the Southern Scenic Route to Te Anau, instead of just driving straight there, which in hindsight wasn't probably the best idea. It took us forever to drive along and we had to stop and fill up on petrol twice in a day. However the road really did give us some gorgeous views of the country side. We drove all along the coast down to Invercargill through the area called The Caitlins. We saw the sea for the first time and the coast was really pretty. The roads throught the Caitlins were extremely windy though, which is why it took us so long, but the scenery was different to what we had seen so far so it was worth it in the end. It was all farmland and green rolling hills, and it was a very sunny day. We made a couple of stops along the way, including a place called Matai Falls, but by the time we reached Invercargill we were a bit fed up so we decided to take the more direct route from there so we could check into camp before it got too dark.