One last day wandering around Lake
Wakatipu in
Queenstown and a special treat to the fudge shop to pick up some Creme
Brulee Fudge (yes it is as good as it sounds) then it was on the road again...this time to Dunedin via the
Otago central region where we passed a lot of fruit and a lot of sheep! The scenery changed from the brown grasses back to fresh green fields. Dunedin is a very Scottish city and it's name actually means "New Edinburgh". It's a massive uni town set amongst hills but more importantly it's the land of Chocolate! It has the
Cadbury World Chocolate Factory and does visitor tours which we of course were obliged to go see. It was great, the smell of it, the free chocolate, seeing them make Easter eggs (made June to January), more free chocolates and the finale...a 1 tonne water fall of
Cadbury's milk chocolate. If it fell on you, it really would be death by chocolate. It was also an educational tour. I learnt loads, can't remember much now as the free chocolate probably rotted my brain...but I remember it was very interesting!
The next day it was time to walk off all the chocolate with a very long walk to
Otago Peninsula, home to lots of wildlife! It took a few hours to actually walk there before we began the nature walk that went (to much of our dismay) up along a long muddy path with scattered sheep droppings, up through thorny, spiderweb infested bushes and up a steep, steep hill! But I really enjoyed it as the weather was gorgeous and views were lovely, if not a bit confusing; with a very English-looking countryside one side but the pacific ocean on the other. Its the only place you'd see Penguins walking amongst Sheep! After a close encounter with a crazy looking cow, we made it up to the War Memorial for lunch and a windy view of Dunedin before making our way down and a long walk back to the hostel with aching feet and covered in what I can only hope was just mud!
The next day was a mighty, brisk morning walk up the Steepest Street in the World: Baldwin Street, Dunedin, NZ. All this walking is going to make may legs drop off. We had heard it was a popular street the students raced
each other down in shopping
trolleys...idiots!
One last day wandering around Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown and a special treat to the fudge shop to pick up some Creme Brulee Fudge (yes it is as good as it sounds) then it was on the road again...this time to Dunedin via the Otago central region where we passed a lot of fruit and a lot of sheep! The scenery changed from the brown grasses back to fresh green fields. Dunedin is a very Scottish city and it's name actually means "New Edinburgh". It's a massive uni town set amongst hills but more importantly it's the land of Chocolate! It has the Cadbury World Chocolate Factory and does visitor tours which we of course were obliged to go see. It was great, the smell of it, the free chocolate, seeing them make Easter eggs (made June to January), more free chocolates and the finale...a 1 tonne water fall of Cadbury's milk chocolate. If it fell on you, it really would be death by chocolate. It was also an educational tour. I learnt loads, can't remember much now as the free chocolate probably rotted my brain...but I remember it was very interesting!
The next day it was time to walk off all the chocolate with a very long walk to Otago Peninsula, home to lots of wildlife! It took a few hours to actually walk there before we began the nature walk that went (to much of our dismay) up along a long muddy path with scattered sheep droppings, up through thorny, spiderweb infested bushes and up a steep, steep hill! But I really enjoyed it as the weather was gorgeous and views were lovely, if not a bit confusing; with a very English-looking countryside one side but the pacific ocean on the other. Its the only place you'd see Penguins walking amongst Sheep! After a close encounter with a crazy looking cow, we made it up to the War Memorial for lunch and a windy view of Dunedin before making our way down and a long walk back to the hostel with aching feet and covered in what I can only hope was just mud!
The next day was a mighty, brisk morning walk up the Steepest Street in the World: Baldwin Street, Dunedin, NZ. All this walking is going to make may legs drop off. We had heard it was a popular street the students raced each other down in shopping trolleys...idiots!
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Nice Karate kid pose!!
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