Secrets of My Wonderful Travels & Leisure Trips: April 2012

Stuff bought in New Zealand

Some stuff I bought during my travel trip in New Zealand, I think I bought a lot Paua Shell stuff and postcards. Haha... (P/S: Forgot to take photo of my favourite Bluebird potato chips and Comvita Manuka Honey!)

Food and Snacks:

Cookies from Cookie Time shop

Chocolates from Dunedin Cadbury Factory

Chocolates with New Zealand scenery photos

Postcards:

Postcards from various places

Dunedin Cadbury Factory postcard (top left), Larnach Castle entrance ticket (bottom)

Postcards from various places

Paua Shell stuff:

Paua Shell bookmark, bracelet, necklace, earrings, pendant, full polished Paua Shell

Paua Shell kiwi pendant

A pair of polished Paua Shell

Souvenirs and others:

Cute soft toys and keychain

Souvenir T-shirts

Small sheep skin

New Zealand scenery poker card, fridge magnets, opener and bookmark

Coaster

Souvenir small cups

Skin care products

Roadsign - present for my friend's wedding day

Lip balm

The Kiwi Life - New Zealand, Christchurch (Day 13, 09 Jun - 21 Jun 2011)

Day 13 - Christchurch

Today is the last day of our New Zealand trip! I think I will miss the beautiful scenery of the places I've visited! However, I still need to bid goodbye to this lovely country!

After we have packed our luggages, we drove our rented car (Nissan Blue Bird) to the car rental centre to return to them. Then, their friendly staff drove us to the airport.

After we have checked in our luggages, we finally gotta say goodbye to New Zealand and back to our home sweet home!

P/S: Earthquake happened again after the next day we flied back to Malaysia! Scary!

My breakfast bought in Pak n Save supermarket yesterday night - Delicious pie! Filled inside with egg and ham! Thanks to my friend who treated me!

Ace Car Rental centre - Gotta return our rented car! Saw the small box behind? It is to store our luggages!

Christchurch Airport - Time to bid goodbye to New Zealand!

Christchurch Airport - Nice screen!

The Kiwi Life - New Zealand, Christchurch (Day 12, 09 Jun - 21 Jun 2011)

Day 12 - Christchurch

Today we woke up a bit late in the cold and raining morning. I accompanied my friends to search for the Christchurch tax centre in order to get their tax refund after they had ended their working holiday jobs.

After they had done with their tax refund, I felt very hungry and we went to the Fish n Chips takeaway shop to get our lunch. I'm too hungry at that time and gotta eat my lunch in the car... Hehehe...

After dinner time, we went to Pak n Save supermarket to get some food and snack. Luckily the supermarket is opened till quite late, so we still able to get our things there!

Christchurch - Sad to see the beautiful architectures are collapsed after hit by earthquake :(

Christchurch - Buildings are collapsed

Christchurch - GPS doesn't help at this moment to search for the tax centre because most of the road are closed

Christchurch - The street is very quiet and less cars, maybe this area is dangerous, the earthquake might come again?

Christchurch - We can't enter to this area, but actually there are many shops there...

Pak n Save supermarket, Christchurch - We found that most of the things are cheaper in this supermarket compare to the others. Got my manuka honey there!

Christchurch - Saw collapsed buildings again :( It's scary!

Christchurch - Another collapsed buildings again :(

Christchurch - Slightly destroyed architecture

Theo's Fresh Fish & Fish and Chips shop, Christchurch - Bought my takeway lunch! Yummy!

Theo's Fresh Fish & Fish and Chips shop, Christchurch - They sell fresh fish too!

Theo's Fresh Fish & Fish and Chips shop, Christchurch - The salmons looks fresh!

My fish and chips lunch! Can't wait to eat it, it is very delicious and I'm too hungry!

Theo's Fresh Fish & Fish and Chips shop, Christchurch - This shop is also affected by the earthquake!

Kathmandu shop, Christchurch - This brand is quite famous in New Zealand. It sells winter clothings and outdoor activities accessories.

Pak n Save supermarket, Christchurch - Beautiful flowers sells in the supermarket!

The Kiwi Life - New Zealand, Franz Josef, Hokitika, Christchurch (Day 11, 09 Jun - 21 Jun 2011)

Day 11 - Franz Josef -> Hokitika -> Christchurch

In the morning, we spent a little time to shop a while in the Franz Josef souvenir shop before we heading to Christchurch. From Franz Josef to Christchurch, it took around 5 hours of driving time. (Feel like always gotta sit inside the car while travelling from city to city :P).

In the afternoon, we passed by Hokitika ciy. This city is famous for jade, however we have no time to visit the jade shops in the city. In addition, we saw The National Kiwi Centre there too, but we decided not to enter into it. We only stopped by a while to enter to the New World supermarket. Then, we continued our journey to go to Christchurch.

We finally back to Christchurch (the first city that I reach in New Zealand) in the evening time after long driving journey, it's quite tiring. After having our dinner, we went to Pak n Save supermarket to get some food and snack.

Due to the recent earthquake tragedy that hit Christchurch we unable to visit many places there! The things we saw are some collapsed buildings and architecture. Blessings to Christchurch, hope the local people there can recover from this sad time soon...