I spent one night in Christchurch after a 7hour journey from QT! We walked round that evening & saw the devastation from the earthquake, it was like a ghost town that day as it was a bank holiday (2jan), and because there's hardly anything there anymore! We saw the cardboard church they built after the earthquake & the white seats in memory of those who died which is very sad, and a shopping mall made out of large containers! Quite strange & sad here. Next day we were picked up by kiwi bus at 720am, on we go to kaikoura!