We boarded the Kiwi bus at 8:45am and were now bound for Kaikoura, which in miles isn't a ridiculous journey but due to the New Zealand landscape and roads, takes alot longer than if you did the same mileage on the M3. Noramlly the bus stops at various places to do walks and take in different sights, this wasn't the case today, it was just about getting to Kaikoura at a half decent time. We did make one stop though at Lake Pukaki, from where you could see Mt...

We filled up the tank of the Sunny one last time and once again we joined the Southern Scenic Route, this time back towards our start point, Queenstown. This section was the shotest out of all of them and it only took about 3 hours to arrive back in Queenstown and with this arrival meant the end of the Southern Scenic Route, which we had driven in its fullness. We used the car to drop our bags back off at the Black Sheep (the hostel we stayed at before) and ...

After checking out and being forced to write in the guest book by Sparky we once again put our map reading skills to the test and navigated our way out of Invercargill and towards Te Anau. We had discovered that the Southern Scenic Route not only ran from Dunedin to Invercargill but from Invercargill to Te Anau and then Te Anau to Queenstown, the exact route we had planned. The roads and the scenery were predictably beautiful again but this part of the route...

When looking on how to get to Invercargill from Dunedin we found out that this was possible by taking the Southern Scenic Route, road to me and you, but by the sounds of it, it was a pretty nice one. The route runs from Dunedin, all the way to Invercargill. which gives you the best roads and views along the journey. We made our way along the Southern Scenic Route, passing several stopping opportunities on the way. Understandably we couldn't stop at all of thes...

So the time had arrived, not only were we leaving Queenstown but we were also heading to the airport to pick up our shiny rental car. We had booked our car through Jucy Rentals, who sent a free shuttle bus to take us from town to a grey, wet airport, where we filled out the appropriate paper work and were given our keys. After heading over to the rental yard (where the cars are kept) we first laid eyes on our new wheels for the week. A white, 2 litre, Nissa...