New Zealand bound
Chinese New Year is just around the corner – the year of the pig will start next week – and so is our next trip. We have 3 weeks off and together with 2 of our Shanghai friends we’ll rent a car and drive more than 3,000 km across NEW ZEALAND!
After landing in Auckland, we have 1 week on the North Island. Our plan is to do the following:
- A tour of the Hobbiton Movie Set
- See the glowworm caves in Waitomo
- Explore Rotorua
- Hike the Tongariro Crossing (if weather permits)
- Visit Wellington
From Wellington we’ll take the ferry over to the South Island and there we’ll have another 2 weeks to …
- Spend 2 days in Abel Tasman National Park
- Drive down to Fox and Franz Joseph Glacier via the Pancake Rocks
- Spend a day in Wanaka/Mt. Aspiring National Park
- See Queenstown
- Cruise both Milford and Doubtful Sound
- Hike at Mount Cook, Lake Pukaki and Lake Tekapo
- Drive to Christchurch to fly back to Auckland and spend 1 day there
We leave tomorrow night. I. Can’t. Wait.