Kiwi House Christchurch
373 Gloucester Street Christchurch, Christchurch-Canterbury, South Island, 8001, New Zealand
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The Shock of Christchurch
Yesterday morning I woke up at 4am (?!) and had to catch a taxi to the airport, as the trains and shuttle buses don't run that early. My flight to New Zealand went nice and smoothly, and I met Em in the arrivals lounge. She needed to leave the country while her working holiday visa for Oz is processed, so we arranged that she should come with …
Big Kiwis
Second day in Christchurch. Slept in AGAIN! We even put the alarm on but forgot to change it from Sydney time so were still up late. Had a lovely day (well what was left) in the botanic gardens (every city's got them). We also had a look around the museum which gave us the history of NZ and had a good Antartic exhibition. Most of the explorers and …
Otorohanga Kiwi House
Had a drive to Otorohanga today to see the bird sanctuary. We saw Kiwis, wekas, moreporks and our favourite the Pukeko - it looks like a blue chicken with VERY long legs! There was a market on in Otorohanga so we had a wander around there and stopped off for a coffee. Spent the afternoon in Raglan which is on the coast west of Hamilton. This place is a surfer heaven in summer but was quiet today.
Christchurch here we come
So today we flew into Christchurch on the south island. It was quite the turbulent ride down, with a bit of a drop that included screaming people, followed by laughter. Glad we can all laugh about almost plunging towards the ground! We made a new friend on the plane and got him to color in our Spiderman coloring book. Oh ya, we bought a coloring …
Farewell Christchurch
This was a very early morning! We hitched a ride with Chanelle's uncle into town which did end up taking 20 minute...boo New Zealand transit. The first half of this day consisted of sitting on a bus until we arrived at Lake Tekapo. What a beautiful place! Just a small town but the lake itself was enough to make the stop worth it. Picking up our …



