Welcome to the North Island of New Zealand!!! Sunday 31st January 2010, Kaikoura-Wellington Our destination today was Wellington, the capital of New Zealand! We left Kaikoura at about 9am, feeling a little delicate but not so bad!!! Neither Melissa nor Jane were on the bus as they were both going back to Christchurch. The bus was a mixture of new people just starting on the South Island, people like us who had done the South and were now going to the north i...

Saturday 30th January 2010, Christchurch to Kaikoura Today we were heading back to Kaikoura before taking the boat the following day to Wellington, so essentially toady was our last day in the South Island and what a great end to our time in the South Island! With a great nights sleep under our belts, although Caroline might beg to differ on that one after I woke her up at 2:45am worried about what time it was, we were picked up by Kiwi Experience at 7:45am. ...

Friday 29th January 2010, Queenstown to Christchurch Leaving Queenstown was a very sad day and it took us two attempts before we finally left and headed back to Christchurch!!! As you all will know by now we missed our original bus to Christchurch which was meant to be the day before, and also you will also know by now that we don't learn and so therefore ended up today travelling for 8 hours with a huge hangover!! The bus left at 8:30am and we were out ther...

5 days of hangovers, 5 nights of fun, one Nevis arc swing, one river boarding and some beautiful scenery = Queenstown Love it!!! Sunday 24th January 2010 The bus picked us up this morning at 9am destination Queenstown!!! First stop of the day was just down the road from the hostel to puzzle world which had a giant maze and three illusion rooms which where very confusing and one of the rooms made us feel very sick!!! We didn't complete the maze because it star...

Friday 22nd January 2010 This morning we were picked up at 07.30am outside the hostel by the Kiwi bus. We then drove for about an hour before stopping at Lake Matheson near the town of the Fox Glacier. The whole point of leaving early was to get the perfect mirror reflection of Mount Cook but unfortunately it was really misty so we couldn't see anything. We did the short walk before going to the café for breakfast. Next stop after another hour was to the Haast...