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Tunnel beach. Damn long walk. Not worth
Wah sian, decided to book 2 nights in chch, regret sia, nothing to do here. Dunno what to do tmr, any suggestions? Thinking of driving down to akaroa for the day.
How's your experience so far?
There's a very authentic Japanese restaurant in Christchurch. Can't remember the name off hand, but you can check out zomato. But yeah, chch got nothing much I feel. I was there for work for about a week and I was pretty bored the whole time there.Wah sian, decided to book 2 nights in chch, regret sia, nothing to do here. Dunno what to do tmr, any suggestions? Thinking of driving down to akaroa for the day.
I haven't been to akaroa, but I heard that there are some tours departing there? Maybe albatross or whale watching, if you're interested in those..
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Overall trip or just in chch? Overall has been great, travelling alone allowed me to expand my comfort zone, meet a lot of ppl and made new friends.
The views here are pretty much mystical, drove down Arthur's pass a couple of days back and it was the best drive ever. Felt like i was being transported into middle earth. The people here are nice too, especially in smaller towns, like you can walk in the street early morning and people would bid you good morning and even cashiers at supermarket would ask you how's your day etc.
I brought a tent and sleeping bag so I can pretty much camp if I can't secure accommodation. So far I feel it's been pretty safe, other campers generally won't disturb you and mostly just make small talks.
Hitchhiking is pretty popular as well, though I probably wouldn't do it. So far I've picked up 4 hitchhikers, they all told me that I'm the first Asian that picked them up
The people I met don't believe me when I said I'm 23 too, quite funny to see their reaction. Oh, and there are a lot of Germans here, all the hostels I've stayed at, I have at least 1 German roommate
Was camping at mount cook last night, gale force wind swept my tent away, tent was pegged down(6 pegs) with rocks holding the pegs as well. Probably shouldn't have left the tent empty but then I wonder if I leave my pack inside would it be blown away as well... Ended up sleeping inside the car which was super uncomfortable and with rain pelting all night it was terrible..
View in the morning was just as bad, whole mountain was covered in clouds and we could even see a glimpse of it. Did the hooker valley track but the view was disappointing because of the clouds/fog.
Was camping at mount cook last night, gale force wind swept my tent away, tent was pegged down(6 pegs) with rocks holding the pegs as well. Probably shouldn't have left the tent empty but then I wonder if I leave my pack inside would it be blown away as well... Ended up sleeping inside the car which was super uncomfortable and with rain pelting all night it was terrible..
View in the morning was just as bad, whole mountain was covered in clouds and we could even see a glimpse of it. Did the hooker valley track but the view was disappointing because of the clouds/fog.