Just a awesome week on Fiji main island and Beachcomber.

The last days of journey Semester Break journey we spent at Lake Tekapo. We camped overnight and played some disc golf during the afternoon.

The lake is very beautiful and the water is extremely blue. Unfortunately it was a little bit to could to go swimming.

We spent nearly 2 days in this nice city on the west coast and the the opportunity to visit the Monteiths brewery.

Later on we had the chance to test some samples of all the different beer types brewed here.
We camped overnight at Noah’s Ark backpackers and had fun with the other people staying there.
 

I and Jeff spent the Monday in Christchurch visiting the church tower and preparing for our small 5 day journey. We had a nice night at another Backpackers talking to random people and playing games like guessing all the states of the USA or the countries of Europe.

It rained most of the time on Monday and after stopping at a shopping mall we went up to Arthur’s Pass, were we intended to go hiking on Tuesday.

Sunday morning we spent in Christchurch and visited the gallery and an arts and craftsmanship shop.

Weather was really cloudy and we left Christchurch for the afternoon to visit Akarora, a city 70 km away.

This city is part of a peninsula and has some nice and interesting beaches.
 

On our way home we went along some roads directly on the coast which led us nearly to a dead end street. Anyway it was a beautiful view and worth to bring our car out there.
 

We – Jeff, Robert and I - left Wanganui on Friday and went directly to Wellington. We stayed overnight in the second biggest city of the North Island and went to several bars.

After only 4 hours of sleep we got up at half past 6 to reach the ferry which brought us directly to Picton, a city at the north part of the South Island.
 

Wasting no time we went directly another 400 km southeast to Christchurch, just stopping for a small lunch in Kaikoura.
 

Last weekend we went to the Gravity Canyon http://www.gravitycanyon.co.nz and did the Fox ride and also Bungy Jumping.

It is about an hour away from Wanganui and no problem to reach for us.

We have a car since a week. It is a Mazda Van with enough space for 8 people.

So ...

Yesterday I made a bike tour with Aman. We went to the Wanganui Beach. Sounds better than it is because the beach seems to be a dirty waste land. :-)

Nethertheless we had fun and it also was a quite nice day. The bike I used was really old but it took me to the beach and back again.

Over the last weekend I took a plane for travelling to Christchurch to visit Veronika who is working at the HIT-Lab/University of Cunterburry for 2 month. First I have to say that Christchurch is on the southern island where nature is more untouched than on the northern one.
It’s winter sale so I must check some new clothes for me ;-) and it’s amazing cheap here compared to Austrian standards… approximately half the prize!

After 2 weeks of setteling in and working on projects at UCOL I had time for myself for the first time here. This slot of time I used to go to the seaside with students colleges for a couple of hours by doing a camp fire, going up and down the shore and being impressed by the pacific sea. It was the same feeling of being once with all around like I had when I was first time at the Mediterranean sea.
A day after I went through Wanganui by collecting impressions of the city and having an afternoon out on the tiles. I haven't done that for so long time...