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:- -...
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- Jan 3, 2020
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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...
- Jan 2, 2020
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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...
- Jan 2, 2020
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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...
- Jan 1, 2020
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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...
- Jan 1, 2020
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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...
- Dec 30, 2019
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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...
- Dec 30, 2019
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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...
- Dec 29, 2019
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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...
- Dec 28, 2019
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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...
- Dec 28, 2019
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Queenstown, Glenorchy & Te Anau
Renowned for being the adventure capital of NZ, Queenstown attracts cash-rich thrillseekers to its shores for skiing, jetboating,...
- Dec 26, 2019
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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...
- Dec 26, 2019
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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...
- Dec 24, 2019
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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...
- Dec 22, 2019
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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...
- Dec 21, 2019
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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...