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Dunedin——City of Chocolate

To Avoid Nigh drive, we stayed Milton Happy Inn BBH after The Catlins
And we met an amazing BBH host, Tony
Aside of using transitional(wood) as cooking material,

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He also taught me hot to juggle!

Milton BBH

I believe he have a lot story to tell but unfortunately we have to proceed to our last station.

After 1 month drive and many in-organize  route, finally we’re at our final station, Dunedin for this festival

Cadbury Festival is an annual event held at the World steepest street in Dunedin. The Highlight of this program is a thousand of chocolate ball race across the steep street

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For the people who hold the code for the winner chocolate ball, he/she can get a 2000 NZD voucher!

Cadbury Festival

But we actually coming for the event reputation
There are thousand of family, NZWHer, Cadbury Uncle, chocolate man…
It’s hard to enjoy this kind of celebration in the south island!

Why it held in Dunedin is because Dunedin have it main factory.
You can pay a visit if you like chocolate so much.

Town

Beside, Dunedin have a famous Otago Penisula

Otago Penisular

There is a Larnach Castle, penguin tour and a few track
But only Track is free, others is quite expensive for us.
Due to time limitation, we only went for Sand Fly Bay.

Otago Penisular

Just like it name, Sand Fly Bay is a bay which the sand will fly.
This is because the strong wind over this area.
So winter is a bad day to come here.

Beside, we take a panorama view for whole dunedin at Signal Hill and Mt Cargill.

Signal Hill:

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Mt. Cargill is higher than Signal Hill but also with dangerous roud.
It’s not recommended came here for night scene, signal hill should be enough.

But we chose Mt. Cargill for night scene is because there is someone saw Aurora on this hill.
And Dunedin is the last chance for me to spot Aurora!
With luck, the Aurora level on that night is high enough.
Finally we risk our car to come up this high hill

Mt. Cargill

With no luck, we didn’t spot any Aurora due to cloudy weather.
But we enough photo taking at the cold mountain top.

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To spot Aurora, there are some criteria: Good weather, high land, minimum light pollution and maximum Aurora level.

Dunedin itself is a historical city.
There are a lot amazing architecture product which will favour architecture lover.

Lastly, I have a chance to visit Otago University because of my old school mate

University of Otago

The Otago University covered about 1/4 of the Dunedin City. Mean it’s really convenient for the student to access any shop.

My friend also introduce me their daily dessert, big and cheap ice cream.

Town

After seeing the amazing study environment over here, felt really regret for not working hard on scholarship during secondary school.
No more chance to experience the scenic school, surfing summer break, skiing winter break.

For our last station, thanks a lot to my travel mates who accompany me throughout all happy, hard, surprise time.

Cadbury Festival

It’s time to continue my last north island journey.
Don’t know what going to happen, but in faith in God that He will lead.