We paid up for an amazing experience - however if was 4 hours on a coach, 3 hours on a boat and another 4 hours on a coach leaving me feeling prettty sick (though i started the day feeling a bit queasy anyway). Complaints now aside - Milford Sound is just stunning! We stopped off at Te Anau on the way (pronounced Tee Anoo) which had a big lake and mountains in the background. However on arriving to the national park that surrounds milford (its a world heritage ...

I wish we had had longer in queenstown! Its a really cool little city with a brilliant night life! The journey down was again very long, however nicely broken up with stops. Its been great travelling down west coast because the drivers have been so lovely and given us photo stops and weve had a chance to do little 20 min walks and stuff even. We luckily got to see the pancake rocks and a waterfall and an amazing beach where everyone sticks driftwood on the side...

After Nelson we went on a LONG bus journey, 10 hours or something like that... Travelling down the westcoast (which we have now done in it's entirety) the coach drivers gave us commentaries; its safe to say we have heard a lot about south island. Most of the towns have developed because of gold rushes and thats basically what everything came down to... We left Nelson at the crack of dawn and got to Fox Glacier as the sun was setting. We had some real luck with ...

We have been in Nelson for the past two nights and its really nice to stay somewhere for a while! Its a small city with a local feel but still has a fair bit in town. We took a walk around on saturday and went to the iSite, but didnt book anything up as we couldnt quite decide what would be worth our money. Everything is just so expensive. We finally decided on freelance kayaking around the national park (the price doubles to add a tour guide) but was then told w...

Wellington's really nice! We basically only got a taste for it as we only stayed there for one day (we're spending longer on the way back) but we managed to do some shopping (window shopping for me...) and did a lot of lost sheep wondering. Bus drivers in wellington are not nice people! They lie. I know that the number 2 was supposed to go where we needed it to, but the driver thought it would be funny to tell us to get one the 11. so we walked to the 11 bus st...