Motel on York Dunedin

... years. Its beautiful. But, it's the gardens that are the actual draw. We spent time walking around before heading into the town of Dunedin.<br><br>In Dunedin, we spent a couple of hours in my dream world touring the Cadbury Factory. This factory has been in New Zealand for over a hundred years, making chocolates. Apparently, New Zealanders enjoy their chocolates. Of all they produce, only 40% is exported out. The rest is consumed domestically. Its a ...

... the raffle ticket wins the prize. We managed to get a free bus service running there, whilst also getting some free chocolate along the way. Baldwin street was absolutely heaving, there were about 10,000 people there to watch the race. Once the race started all the jaffas were released, it was quite amazing to watch so many balls hurtling down the road, it just looked like a continous wave of red. Although the race only lasted 20 seconds it was really good fun and the whole ...

... also certainly convince you of that as it rarely stopped raining. The main attraction for most of us backpackers however, would seem to be the Cadbury's Chocolate factory nestled amongst the streets. I was very excited by this. So, we set off to take a tour of the factory, and by luck, met a friend from the day before, already down there. We were practically jumping up and down waiting for the tour to start we were ...

... footpath towards Lovers Leap with spindly trees forming an arch above our heads. By this time, we were both tired and thirsty, so we did not tally long. Allans Beach produced immediate results if viewing NZ wildlife is the objective. Just to the right of where the walkway opens onto the beach, behind some rocks, we found a female sea lion basking in the sun. She seemed uncomfortable, repeatedly changing position ...

... Gegenden Neuseelands. Eine laengere Fahrt stand Tags darauf auf dem Programm, Te Anau- Otago Peninsula (oestlich von Dunedin). Diese ist bekannt fuer ihre diversen Penguincolonies. Wobei wir die lustigen Kreaturen schon etwas suchen mussten, doch mit etwas Geduld und sobald diese ihre Scheu abgelegt hatten, watschelten sie uns beinahe ueber die Fuesse. Christchurch ...

... I stopped, and then experimentally took another step. The bird began to hop to the side, away from me, still squawking. I realised that she was trying to draw me away because her nest must be nearby (no idea where, it was not immediately obvious to me and of course had no interest in eating orange eyed baby birds or stealing orange eyed eggs - I do not approve of squab), and so wondered whether for a moment to leave, or to keep on and let the bird realise I ...

... B &amp; B was more like someone's house. A beautiful victorian house with antique furniture, big swallowing sofas, books galore and scattered persian rugs, a very sumptuous residence. However, once again, the place was empty. We could have sat down in their kitchen and rifled through their scattered paperwork lying all over the kitchen table!! All we could deduce from these two B &amp; B's was: Dunedin was obviously very safe indeed and everyone was out doing something ...

... building the hostel is in) has finally picked up. i worked a salsa party there this past weekend and i have officially been upgraded to bartender! it was a little intimidating at first, but by the end of the night i was having fun. black russians and mint mojitos were popular, as well as some kiwi favorites such as lemon lime bitters and vodka lemonade raspberry. the owner has just opened up another bar (in the same building, just ...

... tame as they have no predators and the fat flightless wekas followed me and my carrier bag round, pecking at my sandwiches the moment I took my eye off them. I had my fist kiwi pavlova in the local pub, where various islanders sat round with a "you're not from round here, are you" look on their collective face and trundled back home admiring the brilliantly clear milky way. We headed up the coast through my biggest disappointment of New Zealand- and maybe ...