New Zealand was our last stop before we headed to the other side of the international date line, and in a word, it was amazing.
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| Penguins! |
We arrived in Christchurch to pretty much abject devastation. Despite it being a year and a half since the Earthquakes hit the city, the entire city centre was still closed off, and from what you could see, quite the mess. There was essentially little to see and do in Christchurch (though we can offer it was freezing cold), and hence we soon moved on to Queenstown.
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| Also, Dave got 7-balled |
Queenstown is up there with some of the best places we've been on the trip so far. It's a pretty small town, but filled with youngsters, incredible mountains, and an endless list of things to do. The burgers are amazing, the cookies are amazing, it feels like it's Christmas everyday, and we met some awesome people there - the time we spent there was fantastic.
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| Bull |
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| Cookie Muncher |
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| Snowboard |
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| Carlos |
Just further on from Queenstown, we hit the incredible sights of Milford Sound and Franz Josef Glacier. Milford Sound is a vast and epic fjord, which while impressive, admittedly paled in comparison to the fjords we saw in Norway. Franz Josef on the other hand was unlike anything we'd seen previously. The glacier was simply massive. It's difficult to project just how large it is. Due to the dangers involved, there are warnings about climbing on the glacier yourself, but obviously we ignored them and plundered on to the glacier anyway. This was all fun and games until Myles was going up a slightly steep bit of ice, and ended up sliding all the way down and landing painfully on Dave below. There's probably a lesson there, but if there is, we didn't learn it.
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| It's not hard to guess what happened next... |
Elsewhere in New Zealand, a lot of the fun we've been having has simply been living in the country day-to-day. Wellington is a cool city and while we tried hunting out some Lord of the Rings filming locations there, we ultimately got lost and failed.
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| Good scenery to be fair |
In Rotorua (which by the way is the foulest smelling place in the world due to sulphur exploding out of the ground - smells like rotten eggs) we risked life and limb on a luge track, and believe us when we say the photos truly don't do justice to just how fast you end up going down.
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| Just like Mario Kart |
And we kept bumping into a couple of potato farmers along the way, and even had a game of bingo with them which Dave managed to win.
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| Leprechauns! ..to be sure, to be sure |
And we're now just about to board a flight to South America. Time to get some extra insurance…
