Our Love for Traveling – Part 5

Going on holidays with just the two of us seems boring at times as we only have each other to share our experiences. Hence, for our much awaited trip to New Zealand, we invited many friends to join us. We sent out invitations to more than 10 people but in the end only two eventually followed us on the journey to the kiwi land. Joey and Mike even went to the extent of booking the air tickets but had to change plans due to work commitments. What slave workers they are!

So each of our role was as follow:

Alvan: Driver

Guang: Chef

Von: Photographer/Videographer

Grace: Travel Planner cum commentator in the video

It was a 16-day road trip in Oct 2008 where we traveled all the way from the North (Auckland) to the South (Christchurch). Indeed New Zealand is a place where one will not have problems finding adrenalin-pumping activities. We went for black water rafting at Waitomo, white water rafting at Tongariro (to replace our Tongariro Crossing due to bad weather conditions), glacier walking at Franz Josef and not forgetting skydiving at Queenstown. Tramping is a popular activity in New Zealand and we totally understand why when we were there. It is so scenic that you need to be on foot to take in every single moment.

This is black water rafting, where each of us has a float and we move along with the mild underwater current. As it is pitch dark, the scary part is that you don't know where you're moving to. Guang nearly 'drowned'.

White water rafting. Can you spot us?

Yes. No doubt about it. That is me.

Glacier walking. It was terribly cold, it even started hailing at one point!

One of the walks that we took at Mount Cook.

It snowed at Te Anau. Since it was approaching Spring, snow was unexpected. Furthermore, it was my first time encountering a snowy weather.