leaving south island

Day moving forward  to north island has come. By leaving Dunedin, we noticed how quick days and weeks of our vacation has passed. And there were only 2 days left to return back to Europe :-(

So, the very fist hour of travel towards Christchurch was really quiet one. Neither Flora nor me could divide  happiness. Even weather was similar to our feelings - cloudy and a few raindrops falling...

leaving Dunedin

On the way to Christchurch we stopped a few times to catch and inhale last impressions of beach and lonely seasites.

lonely beach

last walk on beach

Sun came out and with her happiness back. The thoughts of soon end of vacation disappeared finally by a funny pic shooting on a playground close to beach...

see ya

feel free

inhale last impressions of loneliness beach after shooting

In a town in between half way from Dunedin to Christchurch we saw a colony of pinguines.

Before we returned rented car we descided to drive through Christchurch. Well, a lot of streets were closed, many houses were damaged or even completely destroyed by earthquakes of the last weeks and days. Affected by these pictures we moved onreturning the car.

I can recommend ACE Car Rental Service, because...

• it was cheap, 
• they have a realy good service 
• and the return was quick and easy. 

At airport we had time to finally say good bye to southern hemisphere by chilling at the green in front of tower.

Flight with Jetstar was without any problems. So we arrived in Auckland at 8:00am at took a taxi to Skyhotel.

First we thought our hotel would be close to the famous Skytower BUT our hotel was directly located at bottom of Skytower :-) It was an amazing view looking above by entering the builing for check-in.
 
2 nights to go before leaving New Zealand at all... :-(