Were now in Christchurch, our final destination of New Zealand before we head to Australia. Before we gave our mini camper van back we thought we should explore some of the surrounding areas whilst we could still get around, so we headed to the coast east of the city to a place called New Brighton and just had a walk along the beach and peer, and we also went to the International Antarctic Centre just near the airport, this was alot of fun, we got to see more pen...

On the way from Dunedin we stopped in oamaru, quite a small town but for new Zealand actually had a fair amount of historic buildings. Here we went to another penguin reserve, this time for the Blue Penguin, quite cool, they come out of the water roughly an hour after dusk, and this time thankfully we did see them! And lots of them, and they're so tiny, they only way around 1kg!! Very small! Was quite funny because these penguins are alot more social and less tim...

After the excitment of Queenstown we headed a little further south to Dunedin on the East coast. After seeing so many small towns, in fact every town we have been to on the south island has been small, it was quite a surprise to us that Dunedin was so big! A small city really. We headed to Otago Peninsula about half an hour away from the town, here there was a lot of wildlife such as sea lions and Albatrose, but of course we chose to go to a penguin reserve ins...

After Wanaka we started making our way to Queenstown, and on the way stopped at a small town called Arrowtown. We got quite excited when we got there as there was a Patogonia choclotes shop and cafe, and it reminded us of being in Bariloche, Argentina... seems so long ago now!! We got into Queenstown and the follwoing day decided to go Jet boating again, as the weather was much nicer, and we figured it was better doing it in Queenstown anyway as this was the pl...

ok after Fox glacier our intention was to head to a town called Haast thinking there would be loads to do there... HOWEVER, when we finally got there it was like a ghost town with about 30 houses, and even if we did want to do some activities on the lake there we wouldnt have been able to because we couldnt find anybody!! Therefore we decided to head straight to Wanaka, which was a good choice as its a pretty nice town and the views of the lake along with lake ...