Today we left the hostel and walked to the Pop Inn Cafe for 10.30am. We are picking up a Kiwi Experience bus here to take us to Milford Sound. The bus was coming from Queenstown and Gina was on it as she was doing Milford Sound as a day trip. It takes 2 hours to drive to where the cruise starts. On the way we stopped off several times to take photos of the scenic views and drove through the long Horner tunnel. We arrived ready to pick up the Red Boat cruise at 1....

We got up ready to leave the hostel at 9.45am. We are heading to Te Anau. Before we left Invercargill we went to the museum to see Henry the Tuatara (125 years old) and his mates. Tuatara are the only surviving members of the lizard - like Sphenodontians that flourished around 200 million years ago. We continued on the Southern Scenic Route, via the classic fishing village of Riverton. Riverton is one of the oldest European settlements in New Zealand and it is ri...

Today we got up ready to leave the hostel at 7.45am. We are heading to Invercargill. On the way we travelled through the Catlins - an area of distinctive ridges clothed in awesome native forest. Headlands with sandy beaches make it spectacular as any other coastline in the country. Our Catlins adventure begun with an awe inspiring panorama view from Nugget Point - a lighthouse perched atop huge rocks protruding from the crashing seas. The southerly wind can somet...

We left the hostel at 9.30am to join the bottom bus. I said goodbye to Jo, Nicole and Keira as this will be the last time I will see them before they leave Queenstown. There are only 12 people doing the bottom bus so we are travelling in a minibus this time. When doing the Kiwi Experience we were travelling in a coach as its more popular. We are heading to Dunedin today. On the way we stopped off at a lookout point of the massive Clyde dam which holds 33,229,712 ...

After a heavy night with everyone last night we didn't really get up until midday as we all were very hungover. Well worth it though. It was such a great night especially as it was our last night out with everyone together on the Kiwi Experience. Gina and I have met loads of really nice people over the last month and its going to be really sad to say goodbye to everyone when we go our separate ways after Queenstown. The Kiwi Experience is definitely the best way ...