New Zealand - Backtracking and conclusion

The two days left before our flight onwards to Sydney were spent backtracking through Wellington and Auckland.

Our first night back in Wellington was spent walking some of the areas we hadn’t spent much time in and some essential if slightly unsuccessful souvenir shopping- by the time we actually got round to shopping the shops were closing, great planning on our part. This did however give us a chance to stroll around the Civic centre; an area that somehow we missed on our first time round. The Civic centre is an area surrounded by many forms of art and art related museums.



Being back in Wellington gave us the chance to go back to our new favourite little Japanese restaurant- Abashi. Once again the food was brilliant and if this place was in the UK I think we would spend a lot of money on their food.

We decided against another bus journey and took the Overlander- a 12 hour train from Wellington straight through to Auckland. To be honest our opinions on the journey were slightly mixed, overall I would say we enjoyed the journey but I don’t think we’d be in a hurry to do it again. Unfortunately we didn’t get a great deal of photographs due to the fact that my photographer managed to sleep for a large proportion of the trip- though she woke for the best views.




I don’t have much to say about our time in Auckland, I think more than anything we were killing time- though fortunately we managed to get some of those souvenirs we were searching for.

This concludes our New Zealand experience and what an experience it’s been, one that will live long in our memories and give us a wealth of events to talk about; from skydiving in Wanaka, to walking a glacier in Franz Josef, dolphin viewing in Picton to simply taking life at our pace and enjoying every minute. Our knowledge of New Zealand has developed from to be honest a complete lack of, bar maybe sheep, mountains and well sheep on mountains, to a competent understanding and intrigue of their young history. We’ll be sad to leave and I feel as if a part of us has been left behind with it, however our journey has not yet finished and we still have many discoveries that await us and our next comes in Sydney.