A week in New Zealand's South Island

We travelled around the South Island for a week. The first weekend was spent in Christchurch with some friends who we met playing touch rugby in London (Rick and Sue), they showed us around and took us to a rugby game Canterbury vs. Counties in Christchurch's international stadium. Then on Monday morning (with a car lent from the Harlow family) we headed down through the middle of the south Island to Lake Tekapo (take-a-poo hehehe) for a hike up a hill with great views of the lake and mountains.

Lake Tekapo - from ground and up hill

We continued down for my birthday night in Wanaka (nice small Ski town though low season this time of year).

Queenstown lake view
Tuesday and an hour drive over the Crown ranges to Queenstown (great picturesque town on the lake!) for two nights and a bit of Jet boating, Quad biking and a few beers or 5! avoided the bungy jumps though. Next it was back up the west coast to Fox Glacier where we booked in on the afternoon Heli Hike on the glacier. This was definitely the highlight of our week very impressive and even educational, brought back geography lesson memories from Watford Boys, I’m sure I did a project on glaciers at some point!


View up Fox Glacier from the middle


View down Fox Glacier.

Finally back to Christchurch via Arthur’s pass and home to Sydney. So we did over 1300 km in 5 days, not a real relaxing trip but the countryside is spectacular and hardly any traffic. K and I think it’s a mixture between South Africa, Scotland and the French Alps that makes up the look and terrain of the South Island New Zealand. We’ll have to go back to see the rest of it and visit some of the Ski fields!