So, we returned to Queenstown in search of more adventure. We started the week by riding the world's first jet boat on the Shotover river... strangely it was called the Shotover Jet! It was really fun. The drivers were maniacs, they drive you through canyons at 80kph within inches of huge rocks then finish it off with a 360. After that they turn around calmly and ask how your holiday is going! The next couple of days we visited the small towns of Glenorchy and Ar...

Our first stop on the Southern Scenic Route was Dundedin. Partly for the fact that we heard it was a nice place (which it was) but mostly because Cadburys World was there. We went, we saw, we ate... and ate some more! After a  look around the city we headed south towards Roaring Bay where we saw the very rare Yellow Eyed Penguins - it was cool watching them waddle out of the sea on to the beach. Our next stop were the Purakaunui Falls before visiting the...

We spent a nice few days with Matt's cousins in Christchurch. It was?great to catch up with them as it has been a few years since Matt last saw them. They looked after us well and even cooked us a really nice homemade roast on Sunday!From Christchurch we headed to Lake Tekapo where we saw the church of the good shepherd beside the lake - the weather was perfect and we could see Mt Cook (NZ's highest mountain)?in the distance. With the weather being so nic...

We hit the South Island after a brief stop in Wellington. We had a great day for our crossing to Picton so we thought we would make the most of it on dry land and drive down to to a little place called Renwick. We hired some bikes and got a map of the local wineries in the area (put 2 + 2 together...). 6 wineries later and a stop in an English pub we dropped our bikes off and spent the night in a cool little hostel. The following day we drove to Kaikoura which i...

 Tongariro CrossingThe 17km hike over the Tongariro Crossing was well worth it and understandably the best one day walk in New Zealand. After a long climb we reached the Red Crater which is still an active volcano and last erupted in 1995. It was quite amazing as we walked around the crater with smoke rising from the ground. After a steep decent we reached Emerald Lakes where we stopped for lunch before our last ascent to central crater followed by a 3 hour ...