{"id":1093,"date":"2019-06-20T08:26:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T08:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ambassadors.ucsiuniversity.edu.my\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2019-06-20T08:26:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T08:26:30","slug":"a-trip-to-kiwiland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambassadors.ucsiuniversity.edu.my\/index.php\/2019\/06\/20\/a-trip-to-kiwiland\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip to Kiwiland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Up the glacier in Mount Cook<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On the 29th of April to the 13th of May, my family and I went for a holiday to New Zealand, which is also known as Kiwiland. I am going to explain the highlights of our trip here. Our plan was to drive all around the country and visit the beautiful sceneries of New Zealand. We left from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 11.45pm and reached New Zealand at 6.40am. We landed at the Auckland International Airport which is in north island. On the day of our arrival, my dad\u2019s friend picked us up and sent us to our hotel. We stayed in a really nice city hotel penthouse that was so big and luxurious. I really loved the hotel that we stayed there. We spent the whole day with my dad\u2019s friend and he brought us around Auckland city. On the next day, we had a tour around Auckland. Auckland is a city in the North Island of New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In one of the Hobbiton Movie Set Tours<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The next day, we departed from Auckland to a small town\ncalled matamata to go for a hobbiton movie set tour. It was a really\ninteresting 3 hours tour of how the movie \u201cLord of the rings\u201d and \u201cThe Hobbiton\u201d\nwas filmed. I learned a lot about the 2 famous movies and also manage to visit\na lot of the sets where the movie was filmed. The tour even ended by giving\neach one of us a cup of ginger beer which tasted really good! After the tour,\nwe continued our journey to another small town called Rotorua. We stayed in Rotorua\nfor the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following day, we went to a famous geothermal area called\nWaiotapu. Waiotapu, also spelt Wai-O-Tapu (M\u0101ori for “sacred waters”)\nis an active geothermal area at the southern end of the Okataina Volcanic\nCentre, just north of the Reporoa caldera, in New Zealand’s Taupo Volcanic\nZone. It is 27 kilometres south of Rotorua. Due to dramatic geothermal\nconditions beneath the earth, the area has many hot springs noted for their\ncolourful appearance. In addition, we manage to make it for the Lady Knox\nGeyser show at 10.50am. There were many different pools to see such as\nChampagne Pool, Artist’s Palette, Primrose Terrace and boiling mud pools. After\nthe visit, we visited a hot spring pool which was located in Rotorua. We enjoyed\nour time relaxing there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WaiOtapu<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On the next day, we left Rotorua to visit Huka Falls. The\nHuka Falls are a set of waterfalls on the Waikato River that drains Lake Taupo\nin New Zealand. A few hundred metres upstream from the Huka Falls, the Waikato\nRiver narrows from approximately 100 metres across into a canyon only 15 metres\nacross. The scenery here was breathtaking and I really missed the sight of it. After\nthat, we went to Lake Taupo. Lake Taupo is a lake in the North Island of New\nZealand. It is in the caldera of the Taupo Volcano. With a surface area of 616\nsquare kilometres (238 sq mi), it is the largest lake by surface area in New\nZealand. After visiting these places, we left for our road drive to Wellington.\nThe drive took us about 5 hours. Although it was a tiring drive, we still\nenjoyed spending time together as a family. We reached Wellington in the\nevening and checked in at a guest house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Wellington, we had a lot of friends that has migrated\nthere. We met up with many of them and some of them brought us around the city.\nAfter spending a few days there, we took an internal flight from Wellington\nAirport to Christchurch. After our arrival, we rented a car and drove to Lake\nTekapu. We visited on of the smallest church which is the church of the good\nshepherd. After that, we drove all the way up to Mount Cook which was a 3 hours\ndrive up the mountains. Aoraki \/ Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New\nZealand. Its height since 2014 is listed as 3,724 metres (12,218 feet), down\nfrom 3,764 m (12,349 ft) before December 1991, due to a rockslide and\nsubsequent erosion. It lies in the Southern Alps, the mountain range which runs\nthe length of the South Island. A popular tourist destination, it is also a\nfavourite challenge for mountain climbers. We tried a few of the mountain climbing\ntracks such as the Tasman Glacier View track. That night, we stayed in a\nbackpackers hostel for one night and it was a great experience we have never experienced.\nWe had dinner at a hotel restaurant in Mount cook and the food there was great.\nOn our way back to our hotel after dinner, it was so foggy and moreover it was\nwinter, we could not even see the roads. The visibility was about 100 metres\nand it was so challenging to even see anything in front of us. On the next day,\nwe went for a Hellicopter and ski plane ride to the glacier on top of Mount\nCook. We also had the chance to land on top of the glacier to catch some\namazing pictures there. It was an amazing experience that I will never forget. After\nwe were done with the flights, we left Mount Cook for Cromwell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Cromwell, we were supposed to go for cherry-picking unfortunately, the season ended early, and we did not manage to do it. On the next day, we left for Te Anau. In TeAnau, we stayed the night to await our trip to Queenstown the next day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the cruise at Milford Sound<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the next day, we went to one of the 10 wonders of the\nworld which is Milford Sound. Milford Sound \/ Piopiotahi is a fiord in the\nsouth west of New Zealand’s South Island within Fiordland National Park,\nPiopiotahi (Milford Sound) Marine Reserve, and the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage\nsite. It has been judged the world’s top travel destination in an international\nsurvey (the 2008 Travelers’ Choice Destinations Awards by TripAdvisor) and is\nacclaimed as New Zealand’s most famous tourist destination. We manage to get a\ncruise ride around Milford Sound. After that, we drove to Queenstown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Queenstown, we spent about 3 days. Queenstown\n(M\u0101ori: T\u0101huna) is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand’s\nSouth Island. It has an urban population of 15,850 (June 2018), making it the\n27th-largest urban area in New Zealand. In 2016, Queenstown overtook Oamaru to\nbecome the second-largest urban area in Otago, behind Dunedin. We went for a\njetboat ride there in Queenstown and the ride was really fun. The wind was\nreally strong and all our hair got tangled up after the ride. On the next day,\nwe went up the hill through the gondola rides. We signed up for luge rides and\nwe had loads of fun. We also had a really luxurious buffet lunch up the hill in\na hotel before we took the gondola back down. After that, we had a tour around\nQueenstown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the jet boat ride<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The next day, we had to travel back to Auckland to catch our\nflight back to Malaysia. We took an internal flight back to Auckland and then\nback to Kuala Lumpur International Airport. In conclusion, the 2 weeks trip was\nreally amazing and I really enjoyed myself. We also enjoyed the time spent\ntogether as a family.  If I have a\nchance, I surely do want to go back to Kiwiland one day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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