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At 3754 meters, Mt. Cook is the biggest and baddest mountain New Zealand has to offer. I don’t have the skills required to master it (yet!), so my foray into the Aoraki/Mt. Cook wilderness took...
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From the outside, the Otago Early Settlers Museum looks exactly like what it used to be - a bus station. The building is square and unmemorable, but it is worth entering through the glass doors and...
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The same man who designed the Municipal Chambers, Robert Lawson, also designed the first church in Dunedin - which is now called First Church. It lies on Moray Street, and, quite honestly, it looks...
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Although it has undergone a lot of restoration over the last few years, the Municipal Chambers in Dunedin still look grotty. Situated on the Octagon, and made from the wonderful white rock sourced...
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Still on the Octagon, near St Paul's Cathedral, is the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Although it appears to blend in with the gothic and grey architecture on the outside, the inside of the gallery is...
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To one side of the Octagon is a statue of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet. Black and covered in bird poo, he stands proudly reciting his undeciperable poems to a crowd that consists of an office...
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Dunedin is often called the most Scottish city outside Scotland - it lies almost at the bottom of New Zealand. Its close proximity to Antarctica means there is almost always a chill in the air, and...
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Sometimes cities just feel alive. They feel vibrant. They feel electric. They feel full of life. Sometimes, if you find a high point to look down from, the streets can resemble veins, the cars and...
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From Queenstown I went to Arrowtown, a small gold mining settlement dotted with amazingly golden trees. Then it was on to Wanaka - where I found more golden trees.
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No one quite knows what formed the Moeraki Boulders. They just sit on the beach, shrouded by a spooky mist, perfectly round spheres with no rhyme or reason. A small boy who was playing nearby told...
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It took 2.5 hours to get to Queenstown, and again it is a place I have visited many times, and will always go back to.
Nestled by an unbelievably scenic lake and dwarfed by unbelievably...
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State Highway 1 winds its way down the entire length of both of New Zealand's main islands like a line drawn by a child with a crayon. It is easy, when visiting this country with a strict timeline,...
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It was like something out of Lord Of The Rings. I was in the middle of nowhere, not a soul to be seen, silence broken only by the occassional tinkle of a falling stone. The echo from the stones...
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I was aware, every so often, of a shadow passing over my tent. I was lying there, reading my book, watching as the shadow passed overhead, flicking little black and white patterns on the fabric...
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