Milford Sound is without a doubt one of the most beautiful places we have visited yet...and this was when it was so cloudy and raining for the half the day! It was quite a way out from anything and although its only 85km from queenstown there is no direct road and you have to drive 350km to get there!! The drive down was nice and although the weather wasn't great the mist and cloud made it look almost unreal and we both thought it looked jsut as good if it had ...

Hey, Wanaka is a smallish town just north of Queenstown. The views down from Franz Josef were amazing and the picture above shows how still the lakes were that the mountains reflected perfectly on the surface, funnnily enough this lakes were called "mirror lakes" Another stop off on the way down was an amazing place called puzzle world.....to bring out our inner child!!! There was a maze annd an illusion room, the illusion room was cool with loads of f...

Hey everyone. Next stop was Franz Josef for a couple of days. The glacier hikes are supposed to be the best in New Zealand so we booked into doing a half day hike up the glacier. The evening we arrived we just chilled out and had a couple of drinks with our friends from the bus. We had to be up early the next day as we had booked our SKYDIVE for 6.30 the following morning. Franz Josef is meant to be the 2nd best place in the world to do a skydive so we had to si...

Westport is a really small place on the West coast and like we were told the views were amazing on the drive down from Nelson. The drive was very similar to the great ocean road but unfortunately the weather was awful. We stopped off to see some sea-lions and although we saw about 5 the weather was so bad we didnt really care and just wanted to get back on the bus. Later in the afternoon it got clearer and the we really appreciated the views. We stopped off and ...

Hey after taking the ferry from Wellington down to the south island. The ferry journey was really nice on a huge boat and the nearer we got to the south island the better and better the views were getting, we both think we are really going to love the south island. When we arrived in Nelson itself we went to a looking point at the top of the hill which is the centre point of NZ. The views of Nelson were really nice and the steep walk was definately worth it. On...