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Rafting the Rangitaiki River with River Rats & Ziplining with Rotorua Canopy Tours
When you visit the extreme sports capital of the world, New Zealand, it is only natural to include one or two of such activities into...
Jan 15, 20243 min read
Rotorua: Best Things to Do for Free
Think of things to do in Rotorua and costly activities like bungee jumping, whitewater rafting, ziplining, Zorbing, etc. will come to...
Jan 14, 20245 min read
Roadtrip from Auckland to Rotorua: My Pick of Rest Stops
The distance from Auckland to Rotorua is roughly 228 km and it takes about 2 hrs 40 mins of continuous driving to complete by State...
Jan 10, 20245 min read
From South to North Island: Our Boxing Day Rollercoaster Ride
After spending Christmas in Tekapo, we returned to Christchurch to catch our flight to Auckland on Boxing Day 2022. I'm not going to lie...
Jan 9, 20244 min read
Mackenzie Country: Top 10 Things to Do
The milky turquoise blue glacial waters of Lake Tekapo and Lake Pukaki, fringed by the snowcapped peaks of the Southern Alps and wild...
Jan 7, 202410 min read
Scenic Route from Christchurch to Lake Tekapo
We had unfinished business from our last trip in December 2019 as road closures due to New Zealand's worst flood in 2 decades had...
Jan 7, 20243 min read
Christchurch: A Family Reunites
After procrastinating for more than a year, here I am rekindling my blog with a trip we made to New Zealand in December 2022. Better late...
Jan 6, 20244 min read
Under S$2,500.00 for 16-Day Trip to Melbourne, Great Ocean Road & New Zealand
To recap, had things not gone horribly wrong because of the flood and road closures, my itinerary of our 16-day trip would have been:- -...
Jan 3, 20204 min read
My Top 5 for Melbourne & The Great Ocean Road
My Top 5 for Melbourne & The Great Ocean Road would be:- 1. Being awed by the Twelve Apostles at sundown. 2. Having the feeling of...
Jan 3, 20201 min read
My Top 5 for NZ
Not to mince words, the North can't hold a candle to the South, scenery-wise. We arrived in the North Island after spending slightly more...
Jan 2, 20201 min read
Trip to Melbourne & NZ: Airport Lounges & Flights
Our 16-day trip of Melbourne and NZ broke a few of our personal records - most number of airport lounges visited in one trip (4), most...
Jan 2, 20204 min read
Auckland: Awful Aftertaste
After driving 196 km from Waitomo Caves, we finally arrived at NZ's largest city, Auckland. The sun was about to go down for the day and...
Jan 1, 20205 min read
Wai-O-Tapu & Waitomo Caves
Having been to various geothermal parks in the world, we were all familiar with bubbling mud, vast steaming hot pools of water, the...
Jan 1, 20203 min read
Taupo & Rafting the Tongariro River
Our road trip of the South Island drew to an end at Dunedin Airport, where we caught an Air NZ domestic flight to Auckland on the morning...
Dec 30, 20197 min read
Dunedin
The accommodation we booked at Dunedin was a stylish 4-bedroom 2-bathroom house perched on a hill, a skip and a hop away from the city...
Dec 30, 20194 min read
The Catlins
Truth be told, traversing the South Island from Te Anau to Dunedin would have been incredibly dull had we not made a detour to visit The...
Dec 29, 20194 min read
Milford Sound & Milford Road
My first visit to Milford Sound was more than 3 decades ago. As a child, I was so deeply struck by its beauty that the image of mountains...
Dec 28, 20195 min read
Queenstown, Glenorchy & Te Anau
Renowned for being the adventure capital of NZ, Queenstown attracts cash-rich thrillseekers to its shores for skiing, jetboating,...
Dec 28, 20194 min read
Queenstown to Lake Tekapo and back in a day...
As seen in earlier posts, road closures due to flood had forced us to fly over the flooded region into Queenstown. Flood also forced the...
Dec 26, 20193 min read
Christchurch & Wellington, unexpectedly
CHRISTCHURCH Our flight from Melbourne landed at Christchurch at 2355 hrs on 6 December 2019. Our original plan was to spend the night at...
Dec 26, 20194 min read
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