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GreymouthI was only staying in Greymouth over night so that i could catch the tranzalpine train the flooing day. Lets just say that this was very fortunate as they named it very aptly. Apparently it was named after one of the NZ Prime minsiters, but as far as i can see the place is grey, has no charcter, and is where the river meets the sea. The only good thing going for it is that it bring in the toursits as it is where the Tranzalpine train terminates...

Punakaiki  As soon as i arrived here i felt that this place was going to be special. I was dropped at the top of a hill, and had to walk down past the beach to my hostel. On the way down the view was spectacular ( there are only so many words i can keep recycling to describe how great things were). Ther was an amazing sence of light. It was so bright but it was also hazy. It was really odd, as if someone had decided to get rid of the sun and replac...