Day 32 - 9th Feb - Glacier Walking!! Such an amazing day, we went to fox glacier town centre today, ready to do our 'Fox Trot' glacier walking. Got to the centre to be kitted up for our 4hr hike, looked very attractive doing the walk. we were given some rather fetching walking boots, thick socks and crampons. once we got everything we were dropped off at the bottom of Fox Glacier and began the hike, the first part of the hike was through rainforest up the side of...

Day 31 - 8th feb - Another driving day, quite excited about the next few days as we get to do some of the main activities of the trip. today we drove towards the township of Franz Josef. although it was a long day of driving, the route that we had taken was so beautiful, we drove through mountain ranges, surrounded by picturesque views and lots of hills and greenery! the route drove also was included in the filming of Narnia and Lord of the Rings (as we keep bein...

Day 30 - 7th Feb - Today we traveled from the North to the South Island. Early start as we had to get the ferry from Picton across. Another long day of driving too, making our way down to Christchurch. The South Island is a lot prettier than the North I think we all agree on that, lots more scenery. Again a few of the pointless stops again, but we did make one stop at a seal colony where we got to see some seal pups with there mums on the rocks. Once we finally g...

Day 29 - 6th Feb - Waitangi day - Today was a free day, so we made use of the fact we didnít have to get up early and had a lie in. made the most of the rest of our day by exploring Wellington and going to the Te Papa Museum. The Museum is New Zealands National museum so is full of the history of the country and loads of exhibits about the native people. Making it quite apt that we went on Waitangi day which is a national holiday in NZ to celebrate the count...

Day 28 - 5th Feb - Up at ridiculous o'clock (6.30am) not so good after a night out! Most of the day was spent on the coach driving, these days are pretty boring, we just seem to go to random little places in NZ and get piped at by the tour manager Nathan! Today we stopped off at a random place called Bulls where every shop etc had some name related to bulls ie subway was called Sub-merge-a-bull etc. Helps to pass the time a bit, still most seem quite pointless. ...