AJ's Kiwi Blog

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Queenstown to Christchurch

Well, plenty of things happend in the past week, as I made my way around the South of New Zealand. After three magnificent days in Queenstown, which I spent hiking and walking around Queenstown and jumping of plattforms 60 meters above a canyon I payed tribute to Mildford Sound, a magificent Fjord and one of the major sights of New Zealand. Fortunatley it was one of the 60 days they get down there that did not include rain. I even got to see yellow eyed pengiuins, which are very rare.

The next day I went to Steward Island, the third and most souther Island of New Zealand, very remote, very quiet expect for the birds and one hell of a night in the local pub (I don't know if it is indeed the most southern pub, but it is very south...). Unfortunatley I did not get to see much of the island and spent less then 24 hours on the island itselt.

Duneden, a scotisch Settlement was my last stop before getting back to Christchurch along with a petriefied forrest and a few other sights I will mention later on.

Well, currently I am in Christchurch and I finally spent a day without doing nothing at all, just hanging around and realaxing. Tomorrow I will get on a plane and head back to Aukland.

All the best - Johannes