We were recommended to visit the 'Te Papa' museum if we got the chance whilst we were in Wellington... so we did! It is a free museum with five floors dedicated to the history & culture of New Zealand. A lot of the exhibits are interactive & entertaining & there is a lot to look at, so it would be easy to spend an entire day in there. However, due to our schedule, we managed to squash it all in to a period of two hours! On our way to the museum we dr...

Today we decided that we would make our way back to picton & get the night ferry back to Wellington, so that we could get a full day to explore it. On the way, we checked out the "longest swing bridge in New Zealand" across 'Buller Gorge'. Unfortunately it was not that impressive, so we quickly made use of their toilet facilities & were back on our way! As we had a bit of time to kill before getting the ferry, we swung by Nelson on our way. Pe...

After a VERY cold night (we wouldn't recommend sleeping next to glaciers!), we woke to the sound of tapping in the bonet of our car, only to look up to see a kea bird running around on the car! However, rather than shooing it away, we encouraged it to stay so that we could take photos of it, hehe! A bit of a hilly walking & skipping on rocks over rivers & we were greeted by a huge glacier. It was different to the Tasman Valley glacier that we had previo...

Checked out of our motel at 10 am prompt and headed north to Wanaka and Puzzling World. Firstly we had a go at the Maze that has two, yes TWO levels to it but got rained off so we headed into illusions rooms. We were greeted by a wall of different holograms in the first room. From Clowns to girls with guns they were truly marvelous. Then we headed into a room that was at a 15 degree angle from horizontal. Immediately we both felt sick like we had been too many l...

Waking up early we wanted to get on the slopes of the Remarkables by opening at 9am. It was a 45 minute drive up a steep and windy road that recommended snow chains (unfortunately we wouldn't even no how to fit then if we had them - don't tell rent-a-dent :). We put our stuff on and headed to the beginner slope via the magic carpet for a crash course in snow boarding. The first hurdle was getting up but once we were off Maz seemed to get up to speed with where ...