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New Zealand : From Te Anau to Christchurch on the East Coast of South Island

New Zealand : From Te Anau to Christchurch on the East Coast of South Island

It was good to have finally ticked something off the bucketlist. Milford Track was great but there’s much more to New Zealand than the beautiful track across the Fiordland National Park which is considered the finest trail in the world. After soaking in the much-missed sunshine on the lakeside of Te Anau, it was time to move on. I was in a deep dilemma actually, whether to return to Queenstown and take my chances to do the sky-diving since I…

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Hello Queenstown !

Hello Queenstown !

If there was one place that I really wanted to go to in New Zealand, it’d be Queenstown. And true enough, New Zealand did not really wow me until I arrived in Queenstown. Only then I saw why New Zealand is considered one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Arriving there late in the afternoon after an almost 9-hour drive from Christchurch, Queenstown captivated me almost instantly when we got there. Queenstown is another lakeside town located in…

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Hello Christchurch !

Hello Christchurch !

It would be our third (full) day in New Zealand, and we had so far covered Auckland all the way to Taupo before driving further south to Wellington the capital city. From Wellington we crossed the beautiful Cook Strait to Picton from where we drove over to Murchison to spend our first night on the South Island of New Zealand. Murchison was great, but we had to move on. It was a long long way to our next destination –…

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