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Dunedin Slideshow
Dunedin
Travel Blogs from Dunedin, New Zealand
Life in the Otago
This is a top pick! Greetings from Dunedin, the largest city I've seen so far in the South Island and center of Scottish descendancy in New Zealand. Dunedin is mostly a student town, but its Scottish heritage is plainly seen in everything from the giant statue of poet ...
Bouncing here and there, and everywhere
This is a top pick! When you think of New Zealand, most people automatically think of Lord of the Rings. There are tons of tours, however I refuse to pay for them. It's a beautiful country with rolling valleys, mountains, many rivers, lakes and creeks, the alps along the ...
Otago Wildlife
This is a top pick! ... remote places and I wasn't far off as the irrepressible David Ateenborough informed us in the pre-viewing documentary that this part of New Zealand is the only mainland place in the world where they can be found. From a distance the albatross looks like ...
Cadbury Factory
This is a top pick! ... , and Sinead looking after navigating and Wild Bean spotting. Wild Bean is a chain of cafes sitting in BP forecourts across New Zealand and Marge and I had become proud owners of a customer loyalty card due to our addiction-feeding ...
Double Down Dunedin
This is a top pick! ... tell if a town has a significant SA population by the range of Saffa products in its supermarkets. No Niknaks and Mrs Balls at Pak n' Save Dunedin, I'm afraid :( Good thing the vibe and scenery makes up for it, and then some! Definitely a city to revisit. ...
3rd of june or thereabouts hello all ...
This is a top pick! ... English boys in Rosaly I got dropped off in Turangi which I had been told had access to the best one-day hike in New Zealand. Stayed at the Extreme Backpackers which fortunately didn't require me to grow dreads and go BASE jumping though was very new and ...
World's steepest street and a Wildlife Tour
This is a top pick! The morning of Wednesday 9th march was walking up at the worlds steepest street!. Baldwin Street, at Dunedin's Northern end is reputed by the Guinness Book of Records as being the steepest street in the world!! - and I walked it!! - mind you it took me 30 ...
'Fleur's Chowder and a pocket full of Paua's...'
... spectacular, especially now we’re out of the main farming areas… more hills to add interest. Tonight we're staying at Dunedin holiday park. Rhi's going to come over tonight to see us and then tomorrow give us a ticky tour of Dunedin and the ...
City of surprises
Another day - Another city to explore. Hard work this cruising gig! Dunedin was a city of surprises as it had so much variety and wasn't at all what I was expecting. We walked everywhere and explored the train station which was a grand building, visited ...
Dunedin
On the 17th Annika and me flew all the way to Dunedin to start our journey there. Dunedin is a really nice little town, where u can do lots of outdoor sports. And thats what we did the next day, renting some bikes. Because of all the hills it was really ...
Dunedin
... we got to sample 6 of their beers, the pale ale was our favourite. The last thing we did before heading south from Dunedin was to explore (briefly) the Otago Peninsula. Apparently it's a good spot for marine wildlife, and it has the only mainland ...
Breaking News: Fly by shooting at Otago Pensinsula
... lions, seabirds: gulls, terns, herons and a wide variety of shags (great, little, spotted... - there are many shags in New Zealand). Many tourists visit the Otago Pensinsula to be part of arguably the most precious wildlife habitat in New Zealand and to ...
Day 8: Exploring the Otago Peninsula
... I bagged the Catlins tour idea for the tours I took today intead. 9am begin my tour of Larnach Castle, New Zealand's only castle, built by one of Dunedin's prominent figures, a banker by the name of William Larnach. It wasn't really a castle in the ...
Kiwi Thanksgiving
Lots of Kiwis asked about "this American Holiday,Thanksgiving"...and just didn't get it . THey thought it was a celebration with Indians and Pilgrim costumes. No way to explain about gorging on the same old food and too much football...and naps. ...
St Clair
Delicious Dunedin
Our hostel in Dunedin was a quaint old building that looked like an old boarding school from inside. Dunedin is a semi-scottish university town with lots of olde worlde looking buildings and large cathedrals. However, all the pretty views were just ...
Scottish students
Dunedin is a nice enough city, but nothing special in my humble opinion. Building its tourism around its Scottish heritage and arty flair, it also has a lively student scene and bars full of procrastinating students. And that's about it! I did a DIY ...
Kia Ora
... of Bubbie and prepared to wake up on the other side of the world. Now in Auckland, we've acclimatized quite well to the New Zealand culture. We ate breakfast in an Irish Pub, grabbed a tea at Starbucks while Feist played in the background, and gambled ...
The highland fling, flung far from it's home
... Edinburgh, and the city of Dunedin is known as the "Edinburgh of the South". So I should have really been prepared for Dunedin to offer a very Scottish theme. I think when you're travelling, however, knowing that you are tens of thousands of miles from ...
Dunedin... home of Speights Brewery...
... drinks at the end we signed up for the 6 pm tour. It was brilliant, we learnt loads about beer making, the brewery, some history of dunedin and lots of other interesting Kiwi facts. At the end of the tour you are taken to a small bar like room with a bar ...
Yellow eyed penguins but no Albatross...
... of Penguin in the world and there are estimated to be as little as 4000 in total with only 470 breeding pairs on New Zealand's mainland. Yellow-Eyed Penguins are also out of the ordinary in that they nest in coastal forest and scrubland and come out of ...
Dunedin
... were German). Sara wanted to treat me to a special night for my birthday and there is only one castle in New Zealand called Larnach, which is in Dunedin. I phoned to see if they had any room available at about 3pm and they said we could spend the ...
Dunedin and Taieri Gorge
... afternoon we take a 4 hour trip on the Taieri Gorge Railway, a historic railway first traveling through the rolling hills outside Dunedin, then winding through the steep rocky gorge of the Taieri River. We go through tunnels and over tall viaducts. It is ...
Project 330, Week 20
... than at a beautiful beach on the coast. 2/4/12 – For the first time since arriving in Dunedin we weren’t hungover! A liberating feeling. We had a lazy day chilling in the living room, with its diverse collection of couches! ...
Down to Dunedin!
... around till 8.30 or 9pm to see them so i just had a stroll around there and then fecked off again in the jammer to dunedin!! Into the new bog bar there (nice bar, just recently opened - much bigger than one in chch as it happens too!) to meet ...
Final week in NZ
... a while. I came up empty handed but G is coming home with some rocks...(as if my bag didn't weigh enough already) Next was Dunedin where we stopping to see a Uni friend of mine - Debs and her partner Steve and their 3month old gorgeous baby Niamh. We had ...
Allo from Dunedin (Gaelic for Edinburgh)
Well! Driving to Dunedin was just about like driving through Babe's movie set, it was so great. One hill I saw was spotted with white sheep, EVERYWHERE! It was great. Hopefully I'll see another one for a photo op. It's quite rainy here, our driver ...