#1: Best Ugly Bagels in Auckland
They taste quite awesome, I mean how can such simple looking thing make my morning taste so good! Top it up with a bottle of Charlie, best morning perk me up!
Opening hours 7am - 3pm
CITY WORKs DEPOT
CNR WELLESLEY & NELSON ST
AUCKLAND, NZ
www.bestugly.co.nz
#2: Hobbiton™ Movie Set in Matamata
I always thought they are a small set, oh I'm so wrong! They are life sized! At least I can fit in that door! They have people maintaining this set regularly! And after that we went to watch The Hobbit! Such a picture worthy place! A must go!
They have different timings for the tour, so do check! I would recommend you to go for the earliest session so at least there's no tourist ahead of you when you try to take the overview photo of the place. It's quite annoying.
501 Buckland Rd
Hinuera
Matamata 3472
New Zealand
www.hobbitontours.com
#3: Agrodome in Matamata
I have been waiting for this day for quite awhile!!! TO GRAB SOME LAMB MEHHHHHHHH... and was super happy when I finally get to touch them! Just look at the joy on my face! Poor lamb.. it looked dead. Prob tired after many attempts of me trying to catch it.
141 Western Road, Ngongotaha
PO Box 634, Rotorua, New Zealand
www.agrodome.co.nz
#4: Wai-O-Tapu in Rotorua
If you have been to Iceland, I would recommend you not to go for this. Can't be compared to the geyser there. But if you haven't been to Iceland, this is prob the next best thing nearby? I don't really enjoy this place. I felt like I've been cheated to pay for something which is supposed to be free. I didn't pay a single cent to see the one in Iceland so yea that's why I'm abit not too sure about this.
201 Waiotapu Loop Road
RD 3, Rotorua 3073
waiotapu.co.nz
#5: Queenstown
I think this is the most relaxing and beautiful place in New Zealand! If I had known, I prob spend most of my time here.
#6: Doubtful Sound
I did an overnight cruise for this place, as its quite big and there's activities you could do in between the cruise like kayaking which my husband and David did. Beautiful scenery, there's dolphins, seals and some random birds.
www.realjourneys.co.nz/en/destinations/doubtful-sound
#7: Milford Sound
After Doubtful Sound, we thought maybe we go to this place to just have a quick look and a few snaps to kind of check out the place. I feel it's quite similar, mountains, sky, waters after awhile they start to look the same to me.
www.milford-sound.co.nz
#8: Salmon Fishing
Well the boys have been trying to fish near the Salmon farms and they just didn't catch anything the whole trip. So we happen to drive past this place and wanting to grab some sashimi! Boy I manage to have my first catch and have our meal serve sashimi style! But the chef doesn't seem to know how to cut sashimi salmon, I had like fish bones in my sashimi and its not those melt in your mouth type, its those chewy type. I would recommend if you know how to cut, do it yourself.
230 McCallum Road,
Takaka, Golden Bay,
South Island, New Zealand
www.anatokisalmon.co.nz
#9: Picnic
Next best thing to do other than fishing, or driving around. ITS PICNIC! Look at the pretty mat we got from the stores! The weather is good, while the boys are getting their hooks stuck in the waters. We are busy stuffing food in our mouth and escaping the bees that are flying around us. And yes BEES for some strange reason, we been killing lots of them during the trip. Most of them just get "knocked down" by the car.
#10: Lake Tekapo
Its quite well know for the stars in Lake Tekapo, the skies are pretty clear at night, and there's not much lights from the town. It's quite a small little town. And we decided to give ourselves a little nice treat to have a good night rest! This place is really nice. And at night you can go out to the church and take photos of the stars!
Peppers Bluewater Resort
State Highway 8 , Lake Tekapo, 7945
South Island, New Zealand
www.peppersbluewater.co.nz
#11: Alpaca Farm in Te Anau
I didn't had enough of the farm animals in Matamata so I wanted to see more! So we chanced upon this little alpaca farm which also sells honey. Well I also did ask how much does she sells her alpaca thinking that I can keep one as a pet. I can't remember the exact amount but I think its like 300 NZD?
Honeyfields Alpacas
15 William Stephen Road
R D 1 Te Anau New Zealand
www.honeyfields.co.nz
#12: Seal Colony in Kaikoura
If you want to get up close to seals, definitely stop by Kaikoura to check out the seal colony! We walked there from carpark, took us about 30mins. There were at least 10 fur seals just lying by the water, perfectly poised for pictures.They sit quite close to where people walk, one of them even slept all the way in. Don't forget to check the water while you're there, when we went it's quite low tide, so we were able to walk very far out into the "sea" area. This is free!!!!
State Highway 1,
Ohau Point, Kaikoura,
New Zealand
Well even though I would say Iceland is much better but.. New Zealand did leave me with a lot of pretty photos of really blue skies which I didn't get in Iceland (went during winter) and blue water! It's really amazing.
And the reason why I also agreed on going to New Zealand was because during my trip to Iceland, the season that I went, they killed all the sheep for the year and left them to roam in the mountains =.= So I didn't really get to see sheep on the road! Well it's fulfilled in New Zealand. Although they are not wild. But its quite something.
Where shall I go this year? States or Rome? Or somewhere else?
