#8 NZ travelogue - Bye New Zealand

Lepas lepak Westfield mall, we had around 5hours more to pack and get ready for the night flight. Kaki lenguh and kebas tau. beside most of the shops at the malls or others closed at 5pm beside the weather dah gelap pun. Dok kelam kabut cari cab, tak larat nak jalan kaki balik hotel plak. Meroyan aku kang.

Lucky we got one kind taxi driver, who's willing to send us to airport later. We had a nice chat along the way

Kalini flight balik memnag penuh habisla. Que for check in pun panjang giler. 

And HM buat prangai plak dalam flight. I pun confused she actually ikut which time zone now. Almost 2hours dlm flight baru she tido and pukul 5am (Msian at 4am) she bangun and wanted to play. Yang pengsannye is ME who have to layan her, the ayah zonked totally.

Uwarghhhhhhh nak tido. And some of the foreigners are nice, willing to entertained her

too. 

Oh forgot to update that Hanna had an allergic to tomato. We've discovered when we were at Te- Anau, she had the red spot mostly her face and body, which continuously for 3days, tho we have put Calamine lotion. 

But once dalam flight nak balik, as per below pic, the allergic gone. Maybe they knew that she's coming home for good. Haha. Neway, NO TOMATO for HM

we're almost at KL

Tapi this is from my 2cents la, If you all have extra money, if you're going to a long haul flight (if you choose AA), pls take the premium seat. And if you have a baby like me, take the seat with bassinet. You'll gonna need it. trust me! Unless you're flying with airlines that are  way comfortable than AA, you'll be OK.

reached M'sia at almost 830am. And we just glad to be home and sleep, recovering  from a bit jet-lagged.

We will repeat the trip, mostly to other part of NZ and we'll definitely missing the kind and warm people and treat there, and the green and spectacular view. 

THE END

#7 NZ travelogue -hello Christchurch!

day 7
and so we reached CHC last night about 8pm, the curfew for us to return the car was on 830pm. So we managed on time. Tapi driving back when it's dark are very challenging. beside me drove at night? memang not a good idea. beside cars banyak plak malam tu. memang pengsan masuk bilik, the same room we got earlier. 

at day 7, nothing in the itinerary beside than exploring CHC town. so we bangun lambat, time to relax sket, no rush. sadly this time, no rental car. so jalan kaki or public transportla
jawabnye.

most of the places kat town memang teruk effected by the earthquake. church, shops, houses are down. ada rumah yang senget and sucked deep in. i wonder where the owners went to? and there's basically nothing much to do in the town to do, pretty quite. bored.

Lepas dah berjemur jalan2 di town yang takde ape, kitorg pi breakfast at one of the cafe.

Which after that, kitorang melepak kat Hagley Park. As that on Sunday, most of the peeps there went for jog, lepaking with their loved ones, bring their children to park/playland, which we did too. How i wish Malaysian were this.

Dah habis have fun with HM that enjoying so much with other kids around, we hungryla. So we pegi cari satu shopping mall yang people around there claimed that's the biggest one. Jauh la jalan wei. Penat giler, tak sampai-sampai gak. perut lapar! While jalan tanya orang gak. Finally after almost 20mins jalan kaki we reached to Westfield Mall. Kopak lagi duit aku coz kat sana ada Cotton On for babies and lots more.

#6 NZ travelogue

day 5

back to Qtown was a relieved. we missed Qtown.

this is the day that we need to pack and leave Qtown for CHC. Time flew isn't it?

so we took our own time to do some last minute shopping, beside than last nite some damages for the souvenir, today it was more on our self. For HM, me and hubby.

saying Good-bye to Flaming Kiwi Hostel and we'll see you again, hopefully 

winter sale is almost started. some shops were selling off their spring items in a good price.

and we left around 12pm+, drove to Christchurch and spend a day there before off for our flight at 12.10am

#5 NZ travelogue

Day 4

as early as 7am, we are ready to go Milford Sound. a brief about it is here. 

but we didn't took from real journeys, its a bit expensive and with huge vessel, so more people.

while we're at Qtown, we have done a bit surveyed and managed to find abit cheaper which about NZ$65+ kot. but you have to drive to there dirrectly, unlike with Real Journeys, they have coach from Te Anau and other packages. Go and check it out on which you preferred.

As mentioned and briefed by others that journey to Milford could be a bit slippery due to the grit/ice started, to be extra careful and use the snow chain for car whenever needed.
Weather pagi tu memang sejuk, colder than at Qtown. Maybe the lake was just depan our motel je. So bismillahirrahman nirrahim, Milford Sound we go

First 45 mins was ok tapi dah sampai kat satu area, where we can see mountains with slightly thick snow, by the road side pun mmg dah ices everywhere, weather is very cold outside. Thanks for the heater inside car.  Tapi the view memangla sangatttt cantek. ciptaan Yang maha Kuasa, subhanallah. terpegun tengok. 

our only pic with this camera before it goes OFF. bateri habis

sampai satu tempat as per my pic above with HM and hubby, bateri camera mmg kong habih. have to rely on Hubby Iphone camera. Tapi tula pic tak transfer yet from our lappy.

i think after 2hours30mins kot baru sampai ke Milford Sound. And sejuk OK. very windy. gloves smua harus pakai. as we thought dah sampai at the so-called jetty, actually NOT. it's just a car park area and have to jalan about 10mins to the jetty. So kitorg breakfast dulula at the only cafe here, at Blue deck

all that pics by Iphone

It was a bliss!

#4 NZ travelogue

OK since mood untuk update blog is here, so might as well i just type till i get bored

Day 3
the night we reached Qtown as we went out to find some dinner, it was very cold and windy. berlapis kami pakai. tak mandi again. haha. but balik from dinner, yes me mandi. coz normally 2hari sekali me wash hair. and at night the cold was not menusuk kalbu than pagi. of cozla they had hot water in the bathroom, giler if takde. in fact the Flaming Kiwi Backpackers was so cheerful, friendly and has welcomed us with warm. Most of them that stayed there are mostly teenagers aged between 18-27. and some of them are back packers. you all should try staying here if you're ever plan to visit Qtown. you either can book thru hostelworld again or  book directly, which i preferred.  we slept soundly that night.

motel depan our hostel

brekky

more info centres, u wont get lost

i-site

after discussed and surveyed and checked our map on where shall we go, we have decided to go to Arrowtown, 45mins driving from Qtown. As usual HM slept again after been fed. And we both were so stunned by looking at the breath taking view and scenery along the way. We were like WOW..WOW and more wow from us. hahahah. it's just so pleasant to have such a nice view and a nice weather accompany us, but it was a bit cloudy tho. 

and here some of the pics of Arrowtown.  A bit quite kind of town but the people are lovely

HM at the park

like in the postcard aye?

and so later we decided to go Te Anau ( pronounce as tee-ah-now)

Te Anau is famous with the Gloworm Caves . 
Explore a mysterious underground world of rushing water before drifting in silent darkness beneath the luminous shimmer of thousands of glowworms. 

We left  Arrowtown was about 230pm and the journey took about 1hr45min supposedly.
so guess whatime we arrived Te Anau? almost 5pm and we were so hungry so we rest and this Grill and BBQ place and had our lunch. It was so yummy and rich especially the nachos with cheese. Since the portion was quite big so we shared most of the meals.

And guess pulak whatime we all habis makan?

around 6pm and most of the shops by that time are going to close and the it's started to get dark soon. So nak balik ke Qtown ka? NO la kan jawapannye, marah my main driver.

It was ou of our itinerary but decided to stay a night at Te Anau, right after we checked that this one thing is sufficient. GUESS?
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 HM's milk powder. YES that is very sanely important. You know why? If her susu tak cukup how we can ever stay and let her drink other susu, which i doubt whether she's gonna ok with other brands than Wyeth, dahla tak jual kat NZ ni. So susu cukup bekalan, pampers smua boleh beli at supermarket (ofcoz we tak packed the whole luggage for daily trip kan tp nasib we packed her milk sufficiently, get it?)
Another reason kitorg stay pun because nak sgt tgk the Gloworm Caves which slots at 230pm dah full so next slots only at 7.30pm. Buat booking, paid all settled baru gelabah cari place to stay. malas nak cari jauh2 we stayed at this one Clearwater Motel at NZ$100/night. + dapat free satu botol fresh milk and the owner was so nice treated us, siap offer babycot for HM, tp tak pasang pun.

this bed ada heater underneath, best!

Te Anau lake

And that night was very very cold, i guess it drops to 0'C.
heater lambat berfungsi so gigil kami, the bed pun sejuk. but later on its getting warm so we slept soundly again.