New Zealand - Day 11

Took some pics around the motel before we head to our next destination..
 

supporting Dyana (xtau spell) for her college project..

zoom sket sebab kitorg jakun hahahah

Next on the list was Greymouth.. not much planned.. besides the pancake rocks, I suggested to go to this treetop walk, since we had some time to kill.. Greymouth was about 2hours drive from Franz Josef so we didn’t rush that morning.. Sometimes I wonder what tourist who come to Malaysia think of our countries and attraction.. cuz somehow when I was at Perth and NZ, tempat2 dorg more on lebih khabar dari rupa hehehe in the website or pamphlet mcm syok, but when we got there it was like, hmmm this is it? Not that it’s that bad, it’s just not really what we expected..

The treetop for example, it was said to be some figure metres above the ground (basically should be tall la) and we can enjoy the view.. they even had this swirling tower for us to get higher.. when we got there, mama n papa wanted to rest at the café so I bought tickets for the 4 of us.. blom start at the tracks dah penat dah cuz we had to walk up this hill (just shows how unfit I am.. as a result, will be starting Shayloss in June hehehe).. and when we got there, the view wasn’t really breath taking as I would put it.. maybe cuz we’ve been seeing hills and mountains throughout our vacation, it didn’t impress us like the 1^st time we saw it..

 the canopy at Kundasang lagi scary...

 

Anyway, went round the whole track and was done.. went through Hokitika and stopped for awhile to check out the town..

Next we went to the pancake rocks at Punaikaki.. we actually went pass our motel and decided to go there first cuz it was too early to check in.. for some reason, the pancake rocks that I had in mind (and izad as well) were like rocks stacking up on another and it was ‘naturally’ like that.. but it was nothing like what we thought.. did enjoy the view though.. the waves splashing on the rocks.. us berangan nk jadi Ariel and singing Part of that World.. sian papa had a stomach-ache at that time.. but we managed to go around with him again..

"how come i was not invited to eat? how come??" hahahah

again, mama was afraid to go to the edges hehehe good thing she can enjoy the view from there..

We went to New World and got some groceries.. yeah makan besar lagi hahaha papa bought 5 salmon fillet, mmg puas makan la.. Then drove to our motel and checked in.. the guy was very friendly and did told us about the routes we could take for tomorrow (since we told him we’ll be leaving early to Picton for the ferry).. he did mention that there was a point where we could see the sunset, so we planned to go there.. we rest for a while before heading back out.. we made it just in time to see the sunset.. one second I was driving and we could still see the sun, the next second, it was gone.. I drove to the end so that we could get a better spot and 3 seconds later it was just orange huhuhu we did manage to get pictures though.. the motel guy mentioned that the place was one of the worst river cross and told us to google Greymoth river cross.. a few fisherman died trying to get back to shore..

We went back to the motel, cook and had dinner.. yummy, even though makan nasi sehari sekali, tp that one time mkn tu pinggan penuh hehehe didn’t watch much tv that night sbb still had the flu, plus we had to wake up and leave the motel early the next day cuz we had to catch the ferry..

New Zealand - Day 10

By this time, we were dreading the end of our vacation cuz the rest of the itinerary was just the trip going back to Auckland.. this day was a long drive.. 7 hours ok.. Props to fiq yg drive the whole way without switching drivers.. we stopped here and there for pics and gas.. Co-driver munch2 and rest mate ke? Hehehe so this was a relaxing day and not much had happened (or really? Hehehehe) we reached our motel, Terrace Motel Franz Josef.. checked in and rest for a while.. the guy at the office did mention a few things we could do there, and when he mentioned glow worm cave, I thought we could do that since it was closed the other day..

it snowed that morning, up on the mountains.. 

mate sembab cuz i was so tired.. 

ad-hoc waterfall due to the heavy rain.. 

We didn’t manage to stock up food at Queenstown so we went to the mini market they had there.. it was drizzling so we all got our umbrellas out (there’s a reason why I point this out).. they didn’t have much at the mini market, no fish that we were comfortable buying.. not much vegetables as well.. we got what we can and went back to the motel.. by this time, I was feeling a little under the weather.. the flu got to me but I didn’t really felt that I had the fever.. I was just cold but then the temperature was low.. I’d say the highlight of the day was that night after dinner.. after eating I straight away went to bed.. the rest were watching tv or on their phones.. I remember noting the wind blowing outside cuz the sound was quite loud.. then I heard izad saying that it was raining heavily outside cuz the tv had no service (macam astro tu), then suddenly izad remembered our umbrellas.. we had left it open outside to dry and totally forgot about it…

There was 4 umbrellas total, and izad said mine n papa’s were still there.. I guess someone helped us closed it.. but mama n izad’s one were missing.. so izad and fiq went outside for a while to look for it.. sian fiq yg tgh xsehat sgt tu pon gi kluar gak.. unfortunately, they only manage to find mama’s umbrella (payung London mari hehehe), but izad nye xde.. tu plak payung paris mari hahahah sian2.. mmg dh bkn rezeki la nk own payung tu lame2.. the next day ade sambung gak cari but ala kadar je cuz we knew overnight it could be anywhere by now.. not much pic for this day cuz we literally spent the whole time driving.. left queenstown and once we reach franz joseff, gi mini market and stayed in the motel till the next day..