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Queenstown——City of Travel

After Wanaka, we’re now in the City of Travel in NZ

First, let’s we visited some village around Queenstown.

For Arrowtown and Glenorchy, both of them famous with it’s autumn scene. Unfortunately we’re already winter.
For Cromwell, it’s the Cherry village, which also know as the highest paid job among NZWH.

Paid: >15 NZD/hour + unlimited cherry supply.

At Queenstown, we stayed both, Central and Lakefront
I strongly suggest Queenstown Lakefront YHA because it have parking space, better environment then central. However, it have some distance to the city central.

In general, everything in Queenstown is “famous” with money.
Even petrol, they ranked at highest price.

What NZWHer always do if climb up Gondola and take the free skyline down the hill. This saved me 30 NZD for the the skyline trip.

I departed early in the morning and took the MTB track.
The track had nothing much to see and took about 1 hour but the reward is the amazing view at the top of Gondola.

If you wish, you can spent the money you saved for the Luge over here. The only thing you have to take note is catch the skyline before afternoon, they’ll check ticker during afternoon.

Next is the super duper Big buger, FregBurger. In fact, there are a few nice burger in NZ such as Burger Fuel. What make Fregburger so special is because it born in Queenstown, easier to brand.
However, the taste is Good, of course.

Ferg BurgerFerg BurgerFerg BurgerFerg Burger

Price: >10 NZD

Again is the minus 5 ice bar. There is another bar called below zero ice bar. Both of them is almost same (according my friend, minus 5 maybe bigger) but minus 5 have discount on Bookme during our visit. That’s the reason why we chose it.

Price: 12 NZD / Entrance + Vodka Cocktail
And remember bring your pass and make booking if you buy from bookme

There’re still a lot “famous” activity for you to enjoy:

如果你有钱,这里还有好多活动让你玩如:
NZ Highest Bungee Jump
World First Bungee Jump
Sky Dive
Jet Boat
Shopping. Price and cheaper and more variety due to competition.
You can found a lot cheap, branded, almost brand new stuff at second hand shop over here.

If you decided to spend you saving over Queenstown, remember to check Book Me or Groupon for the Best Price.

Aside that, Queenstown is also the starting point for Milford sound. You can find more tour package compared to Te Anau.
More information about Milford Sound.

That the end about travel city in NZ.

Don’t Worry, there are enough fun for you to spend all your saving in Queenstown.

Lastly, it’s time to say thank you and good bye to my travel mates!
Already miss the journey we gone through last 2 weeks.

Travel Mate

Legendary City: Motueka

Motueka镇的入口,Entrance of Motueka City
Like I said before, I had been cheated to Motueka…
Since I had to stay here for quite a long time…
Have to spent some time to discover the beauty of this town~

Motueka的博物馆,Motueka Museum...
From the Museum:
Motueka had been a main city in New Zealand before…
Because there were huge agricultures work such as Kiwi, Apple, Mandarin, Grape~
And there was a port over this town…
Mean there were trading and developing in this town during old time~

But now It just a little small town if compared to other cities…
Though small, It have all the things to live on:

  1. Super Market

    There were Countdown and New World supermarket over here~
    Count DownNew World
    The Ware House, a really complete store!
    The Ware House
    A little Asian Shop provide hometown memories…
    亚洲超市,Asian Shop
    There was no worry for buying stuff in this town~

  2. Second Hand Shop

    For me, second hand shop was the best place for me to “reload”
    And there were 4 second hand shop over this town!
    再循环店,Reuse Shop红十字二手店,Motueka Red Cross shop
    救世军二手店,Salvation Army Family StoreThe Hospice Shop Second Hand Shop,二手店

  3. Fast Food

    Lazy to cook? There was a KFC and McDonald provide cheap fast food~
    And there was Indian Food, Malaysian Food, Fish and Chips…
    All of them were not too expensive…
    KFCMcDonald

  4. Sunday Market

    Motuke,周日市场,Sunday Market 小时候的回忆:冰淇凌车,Kid's dream car : Ice Cream Car
    The price over south island was really higher…
    But during Sunday, there was a Sunday Market selling super cheap, super large, super fresh vegetables and fruits~

  5. Little Shop

    If you can’t wait for Sunday, there were some little shop over the street…
    The fruit/vegetable sold in these shops was cheap and fresh!
    But the problem was they located far away from each other, and sometimes out of stock~
    These were some shops I discovered…
    梨子自助摊,Pears Self-service Shop奇异果和红葱,KiwiFruit & Red Onion
    各种果类,More Fruit最特别的自助摊,The most special shop

  6. Public Service

    There was a Library which provide you free internet~
    The i-site over here provide free transport and accommodation booking for 2 national park:
    Abel Tasman and Kahurangi National Park…

    Bored? There was a Cinema with 3D too~
    这是电影院哦!The Cenima!我的宝贝,My Precious~

  7. Some Parks

    Since there was a port, there was a beach…
    And they develop a really good walkway for the beach~
    海边的路径,Beach Walkway~
    During free day, I can take a relax walk over the beach


    Another Special for this town: Huge Tide Different!
    So tide table is important for Abel Tasman Great Walk…
    涨潮,Hoigh Tide退潮,Low Tide
    潮汐差!Huge Tide Different!

  8. Work

    The huge area of orchard provide works from Feb to Aug…
    Beside there was a Talley’s Factory which provide work in mussel and fish department all over the year…
    During Hoki Season (Winter), Talley’s also provide work for WHVer
    So there were many WHVer in this little town…

Beside, Many cyclist around here because the road was kinda flat~
Since I don’t have a car, I bought my little bicycle do some “travel” with me~
我买了!I bought it!

Hope I can enjoy the time I stay here and discover more beauty of this town~

Nelson——City one day trip

很特别的钟楼,IRD clock tower
After went to Nelson Lake, Time for Nelson City…
Since there was a Saturday Market in Nelson, we planned a Saturday Nelson City one dya trip

  1. Nelson Saturday Market

    Nelson,周六市场,Saturday Market人山人海,people mountain people sea(a lot of people)~
    Like Motueka, Nelson was also a City full of art…
    So up to 50% of the store in the Saturday Market was selling Artwork…
    他们也很喜欢青色(翡翠青),A lot green  color Artwork3D 拼图,3D Puzzle
    铝罐的艺术,Recycle Art它的螺旋桨还会转的哦~ It propeller will turn when blew by wind~
    好好吃哦!Yummy!近距离看是不是有一点不真实?因为它们是肥皂哦!Look unreal right? Because they are soap!
    马车~Carriage~Hello, Barney,你好

  2. Pass by the born place of The One Ring

    Every The Lord Of The Ring fan knew that Sauron made The One Ring…
    But where he made The One Ring?
    The answer was the little shop below~
    索伦做魔戒的地方,where Sauron made The Ring原来真正的魔戒出自这间小店,The one ring born in a small shop

  3. Christ Church Cathedral, Nelson

    This was a really old church, a good place for photography~
    The Organ and colourful window inside were really amazing views…

     

  4. A Ice-Cream Shop from book: Penguino

    Penguino,出名的冰淇凌,A famous Ice-Cream纽西兰打工旅行273天
    We followed the introduction of this book to the Penguino Ice-Cream Shop

    The taste of the Ice-Cream just like described in the book, Tasty, Fine and Luxury!
    I ordered a Blackcurrant Sorbet, the flavour they put for their ads~
    Cost: 3.80NZD

    我买了黑加仑口味,I bought the Blackcurrant Sorbet记得要来这里咯~ Remember, penguino in Nelson
    Maybe the reception (or boss’s wife) also like blackcurrant, we free me one more scoop of Feijoa Flavour, which similar to Blackcurrant flavour~
    Thousand of appreciate!

    感恩,老板娘给我免费加料!费约果口味!Thanked for free add-on! Feijoa Flavor!
    Finally, we had a chance to meet the boss and told him we came here because of that book!

  5. The Center of the New Zealand

    我到达纽西兰的中心了!I was at the center of NZ!
    At the beginning, we thought the center of the New Zealand was not far away…
    After a few distance of walk, we found that it was on a summit!
    Finally we walk for a long way to the center of New Zealand~


    The beginning of the Center of the New Zealand~
    纽西兰中心的由来,The beginning of the center of NZ

  6. Haven Fish & Chips

    Haven Fish & Chip,出名的鱼片,A Famous Fish and Chip
    We came here also because of introduction of a blog~
    When we reached here 3pm, we thought we can enjoy our lunch after 1 hour walk…
    But it had afternoon break from 1pm until 4:30pm!
    We still have to wait another 1 and a half hour for our lunch!
    But we still willing to wait for it since we already came that far…
    没想到休息到4:30,只好到附近等等,It closed until 4:30pm, have to wait around it去灯塔的渡船,Ferry to lighthouse一个小小的港口,A mini port

    When 4 pm, we couldn’t stand anymore and wait in front the shop…
    Thanked God the reception pity us and one half hour earlier than schedule~

    I ordered Fish of the day: Moki, Half Scoop of Chips and Super Hot Dog
    Price: 10.30 NZD

    终于开了!为了我们她早半个小时开了!Finally she's open! she open half hours earlier beacuse of us!Moki鱼,薯条,超级热狗!Moki Fish, Chip and Super Hot Dog!
    The fish was not as big as described in the book…
    But it’s super duper fresh!
    The chips and hot dog had nothing special~
    But the Super Hot Dog was really big until I couldn’t finish it~
    (I suggest if you want to try out the hot dog, just buy the regular one since the “super” only add one more layer of powder coating)

These were a few points we visited during the one day trip…
We also saw how New Zealand people train their dog:
(impossible in Malaysia!)

Lastly, I still have my little shopping for this trip:
Finally I bought the Thermal wear after so long in New Zealnd~
Cost: 19.95 NZD each

熬了这样久,终于买了紧身暖衣。Finally bought thermal wear after so long~