New Zealand : 2024

New Zealand. Trip 16/12/2024to 28/12/2024

16 /12- 12.20AM Malaysian Airlines MH113

Chennai- Malaysia

Malaysia- Auckland. 8.30AM- 12.00PM

Checked in president Hotel in Victoria street

Waiheke Island , by 360 fullers ferry

Famous for vineyard , visited Onerua village 17/12

18/12- sealife Kelly aquarium , 1milliion$ x mas tree , checked into adina apt hotel

19/12- hobbiton

Hakka dance , mauri local citizens like aborigines - Arifa - guide , Auckland - biggest city with 30% population ,

North island, South Island and Schewart island ( biggest of small islands)

Local language - mauri

Hobbiton - 39 houses +5

For lord of the rings 39, shire rebuilt in 2016 , had lunch in hobbiton

Reached rotorua around 4pm , went in a float plane for 25 minutes over the lake $225 each , roto means two rua means lake , dinner at Indian restaurant

Polynesian spa - hot springs

20/12- rose garden , hot springs , te puia -geo thermal reserve , saw the arts and crafts of mauri , Kiwi bird, aka dance , lunch at Indian restaurant , Agrodome , saw sheep rearing , sheep show , went around the farm saw Alcapa, reindeer, white deer, sheep, pigs , cattle , ducks , kiwi tree

21/12- started from Sudima hotel 10.00am , lavender flowers , Otorahanga village , waitomo caves ( glow worm )

Waitamata and Hanuko harbour

Rangitoto island ( dormant volcanic 700-800 years ago), bastion point or Michael Joseph memorial , tree with red flowers Bahutukawa , Parnell place ( Parnell who introduced 8-8-8) of work , gallipoli 1915- war memorial , dockharbour bridge , nippon flippon bridge , it got widened , city of sails , Manila honey sky towers - 328 sq ft tall ,51stfloor and then to 60th floor

22/12- Queens town airport, Arrow town , Lupin flowers , fall in march/ April , kawarau river , bungy jumping , lavender blooms this season , fjord - glacier water and river ,sound- glacier water, river and sea , on the way to wanaka, silver/ gold panning

23/12- lake wakatipu , which rises and goes down in a day - 280 km , third largest lake - mildford sound , southern alps . Stop at Te Anau lake , Fiordland national park , Homer tunnel , Manuka and tanuka plants , Eglington view point , mirror lakes, lake Gunn, lake fergus , holiford valley where lord of the rings were shot , mitre peak , milford sound( piopiothahi)

24/12 - At queenstown , Had Ferg burger , Patagonia Ice cream , stayed at holiday inn

25/12- Bob’s creek , went in Gondola( cable car) , enroute puzzle town

Wanaka lake , lone tree at wanaka lake , Omarama/ Twizel

26/12- Lake Pukaki, lake tekapo, dog monument for coolie dogs by mckenzy county, good shepherd church made by locals, only cross which can prayed even if the cathedral is closed , Ashburton , Christ church, cardboard cathedral, monevale and botanical garden

27/12- Christ church to kaikoura . 7.00 am train by kiwi rail - 9.50 am coastal pacific , hurunui river , Conway river, canterbury and malbourough areas , met shanthishri ( doctor) , her son Dheeraj and went in a camping van with them to the town in kaikoura.