Yha South Island

... ://www.stayatbase.com/base-magnetic-island- hostel/ Meals included: Breakfast Activities: Anythinginvolvingwater!Scooterrental,ATVandmore... Day 3: Magnetic Island to Airlie Beach We catch the local bus this morning and take a 11⁄2 hour guided ...

... transferred,then have a kilometre walk to the international terminal in sunshine and heat and humidity, which is quite a change after the South Island.    Have a long wait (three and a half hours). Kill time with a local paper bought with our ...

Here's what happened on our '18 Day Whistle Stop Tour' of the South Island in a very aged, battered, scraped tiny Toyota 'Starlet' 1.3 Auto (yes 'auto' for those that didn't realise you could get such a small engine in an auto - we requested a manual but ...

...             Later in the week my flatmate, Marlowe, and I went on a trip to South Island. We flew into Dunedin where we checked into the YHA (hostel) and played Yahtzee. In one game I got two ...

... nation of New Zealand as we know it today, was born. Granted, I did fall in love with the Marlborough Sound region on the South Island, where I hiked and biked for 4 fun filled days. Now it was time to explore more of the legendary south. After catching ...

... I have had the opportunity to visit. I am sure there's plenty more wonderful places to look forward to as I continue through the South Island - of which you can be assured I will keep you updated!! Look forward to hearing from you all soon with your ...

Day 59 - 6th Oct - We arrive in Picton after a really beautiful scenic journey to the South Island through the Marlborough Sounds on the Interislander ferry.  We cook dinner at the hostel and sample some of the free chocolate pudding and ice cream ...

... On the tram ride we learnt that the PwC buidling, at 21 storeys high, is the highest building in the whole of the South Island. Christchurch is built on a swamp, so apparently if there was a bad enough earthquake the buildings would sink, hence why ...

... great start to the trip by heading over to the West Coast along Arthurs Pass; quite possibly the trickiest road on the South Island! After a short break at Kura Tawahiti (place where scenes from Narnia was filmed) we continued our 400km journey west to ...

... into a fortnight, so for the five days that we had before interviews we concentrated on the northern edge of the South Island, and had a lovely antipasto of Marlborough, Nelson and the Abel Tasman, before hopefully having time to gorge ourselves on the ...

Another early start, this time we were getting a shuttle bus to the port and then a 3 hour ferry over to Picton in the South Island. Mark had stayed out a few hours later than me last night and he puked on the ferry , not sure what happened but he was ...

... to the dismay of the person sitting next to us), we were sitting on our plane, enjoying beautiful scenic views of the South Island. After arriving in Christchurch and checking in at our hostel, we walked around town a little before realizing how much ...

Our time in NZ is nearly at an end.  Here are some photos of our time on the east coast of South Island (and a few professional ones from Whale Watch Kaikoura).  As ever, blog write up to follow. ...

... meal because Kelly at meat for the first time in two years!!  The next morning we took the TransAlpine train across the South Island.  This trip is considered one of the most scenic train rides in the world!! You go through about 15 tunnels and ...

Hi all well I've made it to the south Island. after Taupo we visited the national park but the weather was rubbish so we didn't do to much. Thursday 31st July we reached Wellington good old windy, wet, wellington!! We spent the afternoon with the ...

Well being a big fan of mountains... the south island has knocked me for six. There are loads of mountains, lakes, and beautiful views! I started by flying into Christchurch and spending time with Jocelyn, Jonathon and her family.  After spending a ...

... off to Milford Sound, then the glaciers (Fox and Franz Josef) on the west coast, Hanmer Springs in the northern part of the South Island, and finally to kayak in Abel Tasman Nat'l Park. That should take care of the first two weeks. We then proceeded to ...

After the cruise, we drove all the way down to Bluff, which is the southern most part of the South Island, not including Stewart Island. It is a very old fishing village and is famous for clam festivals. After Bluff, we drove east, to see a bunch of ...

When in Queenstown we knew that the whole place was a lot busier than other parts of the south island because it was high season here due to the skiing and snow boarding. We finally stayed (after a good bit of looking around!) in a very nice hostel called ...

Hello, We just came back to Christchurch where we started two weeks ago. We have had amazing time going around the South island. As said we landed to Christchurch. and as having no idea how we were going to spent our time in New Zealand we walked ...