We left Queenstown on Sunday and headed to Dunedin, home to the scarfies (students) and the 'House Of Pain' rugby stadium. We arrived around 1:00pm and first stop was Baldwin Street, officially the steepest street in the world according to the Guinness book of records. There is a race held every year and people run from the bottom to the top and back again in around two minutes - needless to say, it took us a little while longer to get just to the top. Once we we...

Today is our last day in Queenstown, having been here for nine days now, before we head south on the bottom bus. Since we have been here we have indulged ourselves a little in much frivolity and various forms of entertainment. When we first arrived, we booked ourselves a snowboarding package for a week, that included a couple of lessons so that we could progress from falling on our asses on the beginner slopes. After the first couple of days we were improving qu...

We arrived in Wanaka quite late in the evening as it was a long drive from Franz Joseph after stopping off at Lake Matheson where, on a clear day there is a perfect reflection of the mountains on the lake. Unfortunately, the only thing we lacked was a clear day!! When we finally got to Wanaka there was just time for a quick snoop around the shops to get our bearings before heading back to the hostel to prepare dinner in possibly the dirtiest kitchen in the world...

We have been in Franz Josef now for three days and it is a tiny little place surrounded by mountains covered in snow! We arrived in the afternoon and got to our hostel and after a little mix up which was caused by some ass helping himself to our room the nice lady put us in the motel for the same price...bargain! we even have a bathroom, kitchen, tv and the best bit...an electric blanket!! We didn't do too much the day we arrived, got some food and booked ourse...

Today we left Westport for Mahinapua to go to a random little pub that Kiwi Experience stop at for the excuse to have a party! We got on our bus nice and early as usual and started our drive down to the pub stopping at a really nice little place on the coast to see the pancake rocks and some blow holes. We stopped for an hour or so to walk around and take in the view and then after having a hot chocolate it was time to head off again to Greymouth to stock up on ...