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    Under S$2,500.00 for 16-Day Trip to Melbourne, Great Ocean Road & New Zealand
    • Jan 3, 2020
    • 4 min

    Under S$2,500.00 for 16-Day Trip to Melbourne, Great Ocean Road & New Zealand

    To recap, had things not gone horribly wrong because of the flood and road closures, my itinerary of our 16-day trip would have been:- -...
    My Top 5 for Melbourne & The Great Ocean Road
    • Jan 3, 2020
    • 1 min

    My Top 5 for Melbourne & The Great Ocean Road

    My Top 5 for Melbourne & The Great Ocean Road would be:- 1. Being awed by the Twelve Apostles at sundown. 2. Having the feeling of...
    My Top 5 for NZ
    • Jan 2, 2020
    • 1 min

    My Top 5 for NZ

    Not to mince words, the North can't hold a candle to the South, scenery-wise. We arrived in the North Island after spending slightly more...
    Trip to Melbourne & NZ: Airport Lounges & Flights
    • Jan 1, 2020
    • 4 min

    Trip to Melbourne & NZ: Airport Lounges & Flights

    Our 16-day trip of Melbourne and NZ broke a few of our personal records - most number of airport lounges visited in one trip (4), most...
    Auckland: Awful Aftertaste
    • Jan 1, 2020
    • 5 min

    Auckland: Awful Aftertaste

    After driving 196 km from Waitomo Caves, we finally arrived at NZ's largest city, Auckland. The sun was about to go down for the day and...
    Wai-O-Tapu & Waitomo Caves
    • Dec 31, 2019
    • 3 min

    Wai-O-Tapu & Waitomo Caves

    Having been to various geothermal parks in the world, we were all familiar with bubbling mud, vast steaming hot pools of water, the...
    Taupo & Rafting the Tongariro River
    • Dec 30, 2019
    • 7 min

    Taupo & Rafting the Tongariro River

    Our road trip of the South Island drew to an end at Dunedin Airport, where we caught an Air NZ domestic flight to Auckland on the morning...
    Dunedin
    • Dec 30, 2019
    • 4 min

    Dunedin

    The accommodation we booked at Dunedin was a stylish 4-bedroom 2-bathroom house perched on a hill, a skip and a hop away from the city...
    The Catlins
    • Dec 29, 2019
    • 4 min

    The Catlins

    Truth be told, traversing the South Island from Te Anau to Dunedin would have been incredibly dull had we not made a detour to visit The...
    Milford Sound & Milford Road
    • Dec 28, 2019
    • 5 min

    Milford Sound & Milford Road

    My first visit to Milford Sound was more than 3 decades ago. As a child, I was so deeply struck by its beauty that the image of mountains...
    Queenstown, Glenorchy & Te Anau
    • Dec 27, 2019
    • 4 min

    Queenstown, Glenorchy & Te Anau

    Renowned for being the adventure capital of NZ, Queenstown attracts cash-rich thrillseekers to its shores for skiing, jetboating,...
    Queenstown to Lake Tekapo and back in a day...
    • Dec 26, 2019
    • 3 min

    Queenstown to Lake Tekapo and back in a day...

    As seen in earlier posts, road closures due to flood had forced us to fly over the flooded region into Queenstown. Flood also forced the...
    Christchurch & Wellington, unexpectedly
    • Dec 26, 2019
    • 4 min

    Christchurch & Wellington, unexpectedly

    CHRISTCHURCH Our flight from Melbourne landed at Christchurch at 2355 hrs on 6 December 2019. Our original plan was to spend the night at...
    Melbourne & The Great Ocean Road
    • Dec 24, 2019
    • 6 min

    Melbourne & The Great Ocean Road

    DAY ONE Our flight from Singapore to Melbourne was an uneventful one. SQ237 departed from Singapore at 0020 hrs on 3 December, and landed...
    Itinerary for Melbourne, The Great Ocean Road & New Zealand... and how everything went awry
    • Dec 22, 2019
    • 8 min

    Itinerary for Melbourne, The Great Ocean Road & New Zealand... and how everything went awry

    With a time difference of 5 hours between Singapore and New Zealand (NZ), I thought it best to take a few days off to get over jet lag...
    Checklist for a Road Trip
    • Dec 21, 2019
    • 4 min

    Checklist for a Road Trip

    Just returned home from a road trip of New Zealand (NZ), and I decided to make this list as a reminder to myself for future road trips I...
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