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Christchurch Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Christchurch, New Zealand
Akaroa, South Island
This is a top pick! Akaroa is located on the Banks Peninsula and is themed like a small village in France. Those who found it were French. It is really picturesque with restaurants all the way along the waterfront and palm trees on the beaches. The main thing to do ...
Six months on the road!
This is a top pick! ... know! Part of China, but for our purposes, it’s separate), Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, New Zealand Number of times across the equator : Five Number of hotels we’ve stayed in ...
Christchurch - Closed for Business?
This is a top pick! ... a bra made up from three dead budgies and a dress carved from wood. A small house mock up of a couple from the South of New Zealand who over the past 40 years (before their deaths in 2000 and 2001) opened their property to tourists as they had collected ...
A whale of a time
This is a top pick! Kaikoura is the centre for all things sea life in New Zealand. We decided we should keep active and booked to do sea kayaking. It also came highly recommended form Liz's friend Laura who had done it a couple of days earlier. We met up with Matt who runs ...
Christchurch - last stop in the South
This is a top pick! Christchurch - the final stop on our South Island trip! Chrischurch was actually a lot nicer than expected with real nice city square, river and botanic gardens. The weather was good and hot so we did a punt down the river (how romantic) and also ...
EnZed
This is a top pick! ... . We stopped at a lake on the end of the scenic drive and spent the afternoon chilling and reading. We headed into Christchurch and found somewhere to camp as it was getting late. Wednesday 29th October Today we took a drive out to Lyttleton Harbour ...
Cairns to Christchurch
This is a top pick! To be kept as draft so that christchurch is marker on ...
Its CHRISTMAS
This is a top pick! Oh my god christmas is finally upon us!! Thanks to everyone who sent emails, ecards and txt messages - we love you all millions and millions xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Well I guess you could say that we haven't been fellin too christmassy ...
And All Because The Lady Loves Mount Hutt
This is a top pick! ... the inviting (yet forbidding) looking snow-capped mountains of the Southern Alps. En-route (not more French?!?) we crossed New Zealand's longest bridge, a feat we were looking forward to accomplishing but in reality it also made the Guinness Book of ...
As English as putting Mayo on your chips
This is a top pick! ... around the chilly South Island we were given extra duvets, blankets, pillows and a set of snow chains before heading towards Christchurch city centre with a stop-off at a local supermarket for a stock-up. We found a really nice campervan park five ...
Unchained Medley
This is a top pick! ... of a bronze statue of a sheep dog. After half an hour we came across another large lake called Pukaki whose waters reflect New Zealand's highest mountain, Mount Cook on a clear day, but today there would be no such view as a thick mist covered most of ...
Hamner to KaiKoura
This is a top pick! ... have as many showers as you want but you cant beat a good soak. If you want to find the older generation of people in New Zealand then look no further. Due to the spa pools having certain qualities, you get a lot of old people clambering into the pools ...
On the road again
This is a top pick! ... to spend the night in Peel Forest. This was a nice enough wee sight and we met a wee couple from Ireland who were just finishing their New Zealand trip and they gave us a few pointers to help us with our journey. (note to Phil & Julie - they were in a ...
A challenging walk to Meuller Hut
This is a top pick! ... and did just that. Again, I sat on a huge rock on my own, in awe of the surrounding peaks. There are 30 mountains in New Zealand that are over 3000m high, and Mount Cook National Park is home to nearly all of them - a great indication of the magnitude I ...
The 8th Wonder of the World
This is a top pick! ... Track (one of the most highly rated 3 day walks in the world) and also of Sutherland Falls, the highest waterfall in New Zealand. Milford Sound was spectacular and was dubbed by Rudyard Kipling as the 8th Wonder of the World. One of Queenstown's ...
Crossing the Alps
This is a top pick! ... . These were about the size of cats, with luxuriously furry coats, and very sharp claws. They are public enemy number one in New Zealand because of their tendency to eat the eggs of native birds, bringing many like the kiwi to the edge of extinction. ...
Garden City Redux
This is a top pick! ... I'm travling long distances and in the car or on a train for several hours. I've read about 20 books since I've been in New Zealand. I normally just carry around two at a time and switch them out at hostels' book exchanges. It's pretty nice having a wide ...
Ice Cube, Pancakes, and a long drive
This is a top pick! July 28th 2005 We attemped the walk up the glacier today, however the weather itself had been miserable over the last few days and had therefore washed away the steps that are used to walk onto the ice. We made it up the hill before being told we ...
The other end of the world (my world that is)
This is a top pick! ... . Some of the sight were way too cute to be healthy for my cardio-vascular systems. Did I say already how fit the guys in New Zealand are? If I wasn't coming from India, I was going to say that guys over here stare. New Zealanders are a strange ...
Playing With Fire
This is a top pick! It's been a while since I last wrote and today we've moved onto New Zealand where we'll be spending the next 3 weeks or so travelling around in a campervan. However, I last posted on here from Byron Bay, where we left about a week ago and moved onto ...
Out of the Gimp in with the Geeks
This is a top pick! We woke up and the weather was still cloudy but no rain. We had a quick shower as we would be DOC or free camping for the next few days. We nipped into the library to use a bit of free wifi then set off towards Mount Cook. We passed over some of the most ...
its the weekend again
This is a top pick! Its the weekend already; George n Jazz have to work, Ben gets on with the garden and I try to get some writing done which is going not too well I guess. Tormorrow i will paint the house, get sunburnt on my back and ben will continue withthe garden. ...
On the move
This is a top pick! ... the entry is coming from. Right now it just does capital cities. Anyway, after three days in Wellington I've moved south to Christchurch for a few interviews. I had an interview yesterday for a job on Franz Josef. Literally a two street town (and I ...
Middle Earth
This is a top pick! ... . It was dead and by the look of it it had flown right into the lighthouse as it was lying next to it with a squished head. New Zealand has thousands of birds and you can always hear birds no matter where you are. It had one less bird today! We headed ...
More internet in Christchurch!
This is a top pick! ... got shuttle bus to Base Backpackers which was ok. Are picking up our campervan in a bit - home for the next 5 weeks! Christchurch seems like a nice city bit bigger than imagined and all pretty low level. Had a wander around Cathedral Square and the ...
The Garden City
This is a top pick! ... culture and early Christchurch, and while they had those exhibits as expected, they had so much more: the colonization of New Zealand, dinosaurs, meteors, geology, weather, the body, the Antartic, birds, European antiques and clothing, Asian art and ...
Rain, Rain go away, clear up after bonfire day
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; We detoured off the main highway at Aviemore Dam which gave us a nice view of the Aviemore Lake the largest manmade lake in New Zealand. The lake was beautifully blue it almost looked fake. We then stopped off at a salmon farm where we got the ...
Kia Ora, Kaikoura
This is a top pick! ... know what a syllable is). Anyway after a quick getaway before the warden turned up at 7am we headed into Marlborough the capital of New Zealand wine. We were there early and as soon as New World (the local supermarket was open) we were in replenishing the ...
We made it to..........
This is a top pick! ... go anyway!) and was dead fast and quite scary! Having spent a good few hours there (definitely recommended) we headed out of Christchurch southwards via the scenic route and not the main route 1 (although it was not incredibly scenic) and after heavy ...
"Tranquil"
This is a top pick! ... at our lakefront hostel and a good time was had by everyone. Ended up going to bed at about 2am. Of course, the way to describe Lake Tekapo was "tranquil" as it became the goofy joke of the night, but it really was nice there! Christchurch tomorrow! ...