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Jan 3
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:- - ...

Jan 3
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 striki...

Jan 2
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...

Jan 1
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 nu...

Jan 1
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 w...

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 stenc...

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...

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 ce...

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 ...

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...

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, skydivi...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 be...

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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