Greetings from the cold and snowy Dunedin. Unfortunately winter came back yesterday and it is so cold outside, that I just decided to do a lazy day and stay at the warm flat. So I have time to tell you about my amazing roadtrip last weekend!
Even though the first assignments are coming soon we decided to leave Dunedin in order to travel around. We were with 5 people, one Swiss guy, one Norwegian girls and one Norwegian guy and Daniela and me! So a cool international (European) group. Crazy how many differences there are even between Germany and Switzerland. But we found that that the German and the Norwegian language is kind of similar... what is kind of weird, but hey... `Rotkohl` is still `Rotkohl`! Good to know :D
So last Friday we rented a car and our first stop were the Moeraki Boulders. Nobody really knows how they got there, we just found out that they roll (why ever - nobody knows) over from the hills before the beach. But nevertheless their are quite famous, so I must-do for typical tourists... Because our group, especially Nico (Swiss guy), is typical touristic... Making thouuuuusand pictures of the same landscape, it took him ages to get on perfect picture, and I am not talking about his attempts to make 360 degree pictures. Incredible how people can only watch at these amazing, stunning views through their smartphones... You see: I felt like Asian tourists (no prejudices! But hey, just the IPad was missing). Sorry Nico if you read this: you know I love you!
After that we drove to Oamaru, a small but pretty city north of Dunedin. But as we had to hurry up in order to drive to Timaru where we booked our Motel we just spent an hour there. The only thing I can tell you about Timaru is that they have a great Chinese restaurant with a delicious all-you-can-eat buffet. Best thing ever! In the evening we played cards (and wow, we played the game ashole... I did not play it for ages, but it is such a cool game... Especially as the King! What a was of course ;-) ).
On Saturday we just spend half an hour in Timaru, in order to say: We were there! Then we drove further to Lake Tekapo. I was so excited because it is a very famous place in NZ. But of course, when we arrived there it started to rain and it was freezing cold... What else! But nevertheless the place was awesome, we used the time to have lunch in one of the restaurants and did some quick pictures.
Next stop: Lake Pukaki! I can tell you, this is the typical New Zealand place to be. A huge, pretty Lake in the middle of mountains. And guess what? The weather was suddenly better, that's actually very crazy here. The weather can change so fast, I am not used to that. From raining as hell to no clouds and sun! So here my favourite picture until now! I really felt in love with that place, but as you might can imagine, Nico was just looking through his camera.... Not sure if he saw all this beauty :D
On the Sunday, our last day of the roadtrip, we first did a short hike to the Tasmans Glacier where you can see Mount Cook. As it is winter, you cannot hike up there unfortunately, but we wanted to see him: you know: in order to take thousand pictures and eliminate it from the bucket list.
After that we started to drive back to Dunedin, as we needed still 5 hours to get home. On the way we stopped at the so called Clay Cliffs. It was just a sign on the road and we decided to just check it out because nobody of us had heard of this before. But this was one of the best decisions of that weekend. If you know the movie 127 hours you could imagine how it looked there. It was amazing, even though it was fucking cold and icy there.... But hey with hat and gloves is everything possible!
In the evening we arrived in Dunedin and we're all dead. I went to bed at 8 I think, feeling like a grandma... But it was worth it!
Looking forward to the next weekends to discover NZ.
As you would say it here and I know the German summer is not that good at the moment: Stay warm and see ya soon!
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