Queenstown & Dunedin

Hi All,

Queenstown was great, it is a small but very tourist oriented town full with (expensive) things to do. We chose to do an extreme downhill mountain bike course. You go up the hill via a gondola (their “rachbal”) and from there on it is downhill all the way. As it turned out it was a bit above our technical riding level but we had a lot of fun after all.

After Queenstown we headed east to Dunedin, a big city on the south east coast of the south island. Dunedin is described in the Lonely Planet as a European city with many gardens. We had big expectations from it and that is probably the reason why we got a bit disappointed. A cool thing that we did there is a wildlife tour. The tour is a ridden guided tour (they take you on an 8 wheels drive vehicle). We got to see a seals colony, (from much closer than last time) and even two yellow eyed penguins.

Now we are at Christchurch, we found a very cool hostel where we got a complete apartment (kitchen excluded) for very cheap, so we are really happy here. Christchurch is very nice, a lot of good places to eat at and a lot of places to see. We decided to not postpone our flight to Sydney (April 30) and stay here for the meanwhile.

Gali & Doron