Never Been this far from Home

Trip Start Sep 03, 2006
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Trip End May 23, 2007


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Monday, April 16, 2007

Well.. we arrived in Dunedin and once again must say that although it was a nice enough wee town, we weren't too taken in by it. We did however, walk to the top of Baldwin Street (the steepest street in the world which was quite cool and then we took the van out on Otago Peninsula for a drive and were going to have lunch out there, but we had seen a sign for St Kilda Beach and thought that for old time's sake we would have our lunch there.. it was probably a good surfing beach, but nothing else, it was a bit mor like our crazy beaches back home with big grassy sand dunes and a freezing wind churning up big waves, but at least we went.

We then decided to head further south towards Invercargill, to visit Slope Point (the furhest south we would be, and therefore the furthest we will ever be from home)! We were 5,133 km from the equator, 4,810 km from the south pole and 18,958 km from London. It really is the opposite side of the globe, so is the furthest we will ever be from home. It was quite an exciting and strange feeling looking out to sea and thinking wow, the south pole is the next stop!

We checked into Beach Road Holiday Park (just outside Invercargill town) and would recommend this campsite to anyone as the facilities and amenities were great and the owner was very friendly and helpful, giving us priceless tips for our journey north - nothing like a local to tell you where to go!
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chuckee
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hey, how can you judge cities based on a few hours? To me this is not the way to see countries for what they actually are - to truely capture the soul and spirit of the place you have to do things with the locals (not just the ones catering for international tourists either), and if you did you would start to see the big differences between NZers and people from other countries. Also, there is a totally different atmosphere in Dunedin from other NZ cities which you would miss if you just drove through the city looking for touristy things to do. Christchurch is the same. I just think it's a shame to not be able to spend more time and figure out what makes certain cities good but I guess there is no real way to do this in only 1 or 2 days per city.

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