Sight Seeing in South Island of NZ

Hello people! Finally I have a place to online and update a blog post. Life over here is pretty good, just that the weather is getting colder and we are still jobless, at the moment XD But soon, most probably next week, we will start to work non-stop for at least a month.

To those who love spectacular sceneries, NZ is really a place that you should visit. Not only the place is lovely, the people are friendly as well. A really nice country indeed

The life pace here is quite slow, and I am wondering when I go home, will my footsteps become slower as well? Haha. Become old lady liao when I go back XD

Been travelling around South Island before settling down in Blenheim, where I am now at. When we first arrived, Fern was still with us hence we toured around and went sight seeing every single day. After she left us and went Aukland, we travelled up to Nelson to find jobs before coming to Blenheim.

In the land of sheep

Will be working soon, so let’s hope that the weather will turn good soon, because it is an outdoor job!

We were lucky enough because during our journey we met many kind and helpful people. Some are local, some are from Hong Kong, China, German, Israel etc etc. 感激不尽！谢谢啦！

 

Akaroa –> Chez La Mer Backpackers

One of the best accommodations

From Christchurch, we went Akaroa. A small and quiet town. Till now, I still feel that Akaroa is one of the best towns I really love. Nice and quiet with very lovely view. A must-go place!

 

Lake Tekapo

Church of the Good Shepherd

Kohan Bento

After spending 2 nights at Akaroa (this shows how much we love the town) we drove straight to Lake Tekapo.

Lake Tekapo is one of lakes that you must visit! Very very very nice view. And if you are a salmon lover, please do visit Kohan Japanese Restaurant 湖 at Lake Tekapo. The salmon that they served are very very fresh and delicious. Way better than those that I ate back in Malaysia. Me and Fern nearly teared because the salmon was soooooo good

After staying a night at Lake Tekapa we headed to Mount Cook.

 

Mount Cook

We chose Hooker Valley route, was expected to finish the journey back to the starting point by 3 to 4 hours, but we spent 5 hours doing it. Definitely not a second time for me! Was exhausted at the end. The beginning of the route was nice and sceneries of the glaciers were really beautiful.

But to spend 3 hours + +  walking to the end point and realized that the view was not that nice… really just made us go =_=’’’’’’’’ . We thought the ice bergs at the lake should be very nice (if not why people spend such a long time walking just to see them?), but really turned out to be a huge disappointment.

Doing a jumpshot at the end point

If I were to go back, I will choose the 1 hour route haha. But Mount Cook is a must-go place as well. Nice scenery!

After walking for hours, we spent a night at Omarama before heading to Wanaka.

 

Wanaka

Our first stop was Puzzling World before checking in our hostel. Inside puzzling world you are led into illusion rooms and spend hours in a maze finding your way out haha.

Read this, it’s 100% true!

Guess, who is this? You should know!

The faces are indeed concave, and when we walked, the eyes were really seemed to be following you around. Amazing!

Part of the maze

That weekend Wanaka was busy with A&P event. First time we saw traffic jam in NZ.

After Wanaka, we went Queenstown!

 

Queenstown

After Kohan Bento in Lake Tekapo, one of our luxurious meals was at Fergburger.

A very famous burger in Queenstown that you must try! I think it’s way bigger and taste better than Carl’s Jr.  Next time I will need to share a burger with someone. Who wants to share?? XD

If you love extreme sports, Queenstown is full of them! What you need is just lots of $$$$$$$$. You can do sky diving, bungy jump, sky swing, paragliding and the list goes on. As all of us have not found job and was shortage of $$, so Fern alone went sky swing.

Which was really unexpected to me. Because Fern would have not done something like that. But glad that she tried it

Took the gondola up with her. The weather then was rainy and super cold!

 

Her weight and size

The platform was just beside the gondola

She swing to the view of entire Queenstown

Remember, look at the weather forecast before booking your sports. Choose a sunny day if not, you will not be able to enjoy the magnificent view!

 

Te Anau & Milford Sound

We spent a night at Te Anau before heading for a day trip to Milford Sound. Hmm to me Milford Sound is something like our cruise experience back in 张家界 / 长江三峡.

On the way to Milford Sound,

 

Mirror Lake

Our cruise to Milford Sound

Rainbow!

Our next target is Doubtful Sound!

After sending Fern to Queenstown Airport we headed straight to Franz Joseph to spend a night before driving all the way up to Nelson. My 1st time driving for like 6 hours. LOL

Nelson

We stayed at “The Palace Backpackers” in Nelson for 3 nights. Spent time searching for jobs as well as sight seeing.

Really got PALACE eh feel

 

For the first time, we felt really hot and sweating in NZ! Haha yeah we miss the hot weather in Malaysia LOL.

On Saturday, we went to Nelson Saturday Market. There are lots to see. They sell many different things, some are cute, some are unique, some are odd… they are just different from our pasar malam.

Mirrors

Aluminium-can made things
(the old man is the maker)

 

When we saw CHINESE FOOD, we went crazy, We wanted to buy but we need to preserve our cash. So 只好望梅止渴. Haih. I miss CHINESE food, I miss dim sum, I miss tomyam, I miss curry, I miss CHILLI, I miss laksa, I miss char koay teow……

Penang is really a heaven of good food. Makes me miss those delicacies so much. Here our meals are just bread, rice, spaghetti…..

And I miss my family and friends, especially him. But that does not stop me from staying here till our visa end haha.

Take care peeps! Will update again when I have the chance to as gonna start work soon.

Cheers!

 

-sherril=xuele-