Kia Ora!

Kia Ora, it means Hello in Maori language. Yes, wonder how do I know this? Because.. *drum rollsssss* I just got back from New Zealand! The land of sheep! Actually I was back in Malaysia for 3 weeks already, finally here I am to write my adventures in NZ. First of all, I feel so blessed to travel to such great place at this age, thanks to my parent. New Zealand, is a country which I have longed to go to since I was young. I think I was influenced by my dad because when I was young, he would always say, one day in the future he must visit NZ, the land that has blue skies and huge clouds. That's sort of his dream and also it became my dream. And years later, which is this summer in 2016, our dream, came true. Apparently it took us years to be able to afford to visit this dream place of ours, so I do appreciate this trip a lot. Also, the preparations for this trip were quite troubling. At first, it said that there weren't members to make it a group trip, no flight tickets on the dates we wanted, I ended up preparing myself that this trip would be called off. But fortunately, it was an ON at last. 

So, it's a 10 days 8 nights trip and we spent our first night in the plane. This was my first trip travelling on a plane for more than 6 hours and I think it's quite tiring. After hours of flying, we finally landed at Auckland at around 12pm on 14/8/16. After going through all the customs and bio-safety checkpoints, btw NZ has really strict rules on foreigners' hygiene tho, you aren't allowed to bring any fruits into their country and if you bring biscuits you'll have to declare it. The days here end at like 4pm, and it turns dark after four. We went for some simple city tour in Auckland before we headed for dinner and lastly, back to hotel after our really long day. The bad part of the first day in NZ was, we had to wake at 4am the next day because we gotta catch a morning flight to Christchurch. And the funny part was, I slept at 11pm NZ's time and woke up at 4am, and I realized my friends were still chatting in the Whatsapp group even after I woke up because it's only 1am in Malaysia haha! And I was like "goodnight" and "good morning" ?

It's only an hour flight from Auckland to Christchurch. After reaching we headed to Cashmere hill (NZ version of Cashmere). Along the way I saw people jogging, it's such a nice weather for jogging tho, the weather is so chilling and the scenery is superb. I wish I have the chance to do that! I should have walked myself up the hill instead of sitting in the bus huh? 

You could have the best view of Christchurch over here and I have deeply fallen in love with this place although it's only the first day. The scenery is demmmmmmm! I can't help mysely taking selfies because the weather was so niceee! Also it's perfect for swag Insta photos yoyo. Please do not judge me for taking photos just to post it on Instagram haha. 

We went to a local botanical garden in the afrernoon. Because it's winter so the trees are like, bald. But nevermind, I still love it in every way. I really feel like taking photos of every thing that is shined into my eyes. It's too beautiful I wish to record everything I see. After that, the long road trip began. We had to sit on the bus for hours as we head to the South island of NZ. But it's worth it, the best part of NZ, south island. Blue skies, super huge clouds, greeneries, lots lots of sheep, cows, you name it, it has it. Also it's nearer to the Southern Alps. 

The scenery along the road makes me feel super excited and at the same time amazed. I was taking photos and videos all the way. How I wish there's a hole on the window which I could extend my camera out for better qualities of photos. Check out the snowy mountains, it's the Southern part of the Alps! yes the ALPS! I was that near to it tho. 

And finally before sunset, we reached Hokitika, a small cool little town! This town was developed due to the discoveries of green stones over here. People came here to exploit green stones and slowly there it develops into a small town named Hokitika. And tonight, we stayed by the beach, accompanied by cool sea breeze ~ 

I would have to say, this town is really peaceful. It is so quiet after 6pm and I barely see people walking around on the road. I felt like there's only one group of human beings which was us at that place at that time haha. Although I might feel bored if I were to stay at such peaceful place for long term, but at that moment, I was truly carefree. Like any problem couldn't bother me at all. This is what New Zealand makes me feel, the real kind of peace.