Christchurch

We are writing this post from Christchurch airport waiting for our flight to Sydney Australia. Christchurch was great, it is full with pubs, restaurants and shops and we had a lot of fun here. We even hooked up with another Israeli couple and spent some of the time together. One of the days we drove to Kaikora (a 3 hours drive north of Christchurch) where we took a “whale watching” cruise. It was really cool; we got to see five sperm whales (that’s a big kind of whale, not the “Free Willy” type) from really close. You get to see only 10% of their body, the rest is under the water, but before they dive they raise there tails and it is one of nature’s pretty moments. The only bad thing in the cruise was that Gali got a little sea sick and spent half of it at the toilets.

Since we are car-less now, until we find something in Australia (maybe a caravan this time) we had to get rid of most of our camping gear. We made a lot of people happy with a lot of free handouts.

To summarize New Zealand: It is an amazing place full with inconceivable amount of nature’s beauty accompanied with nice English speaking people and affordable prices.

Gali & Doron