After all the excitement, we left Queenstown and headed off to Arrow town. This town was previously a small gold mine, which now restored to be a cowboy town for tourists' attractions.

After the gold rush, we made another stopped at Kawarau Gorge to watch the famous Kawarau Suspension Bridge's bungy jumping. Initially, I was tempted to try out but after checking the price, it was quite costly for a jump - NZ$108 with a video shot and T-shirt. Finally, I dropped the idea as none of the girls wished to participate and I was a bit scared to do it by myself.

From our observation, Asian girls who did the jump were mostly Japanese. I promised myself if I were to come back to NZ, I would brave myself to try it!

We stopped by to inquire Dunedin attractions at the tourist information center located in the Octagon Municipal Chamber.

In my opinion NZ tourism board should be highly commended for their effort in providing convenient and accessible travelling information to tourists. Nearly every town regardless how small they are, there are places with "I" that indicates tourist information center that provides assistance to tourists to travel hassle free in their country.

In fact we did not purchase any guide books for this trip. We gathered most of our lodging information and driving directions to major attractions from the free leaflets given out at each "I" center.

The next morning, we proceeded to Otago Peninsular for bird watching. Albatross, NZ famous giant sea birds found widely in this area.

Through out this journey, we used to cook our lunch early in the morning at the hostel and pack them up for picnic lunch. We would just pull aside as and when we spotted good picnic location. We had such a good time enjoying our lunch while appreciating the superb scenic surroundings.

We left Dunedin to travel north, heading route SH8 to Mount Cook, NZ highest peak at 12,317ft.

We passed by Lake Pukaiki. The lake was grayish in color; this was resulted from glacial dust flow from the mountain peaks that flushed into the lake. It was a breath taking view, standing at the lakeside oversee the snow-covered peak of Mt Cook a far.

We were unable to get accommodation at Mt. Cook YHA Hostel. Out of no choice, we were forced to check-in to the expensive Mt Cook chalet for a night. It was very cold up there, luckily the chalet was equipped with heater and cooking utensil. With good cooks - JP, EM, YL around, a delicious dinner was served within no time. That night we retired with satisfied mind and warm stomach.

After taking a few shots, we retreated back to chalet. We left Mt Cook about noon; it was too cold to stay for another night. After Mt Cook, we continued our drive heading East Coast to Christchurch.

The road heading to Christchurch no longer so hilly and winding as compared to West Coast. We had entered into Canterbury plains where miles of farmland came into views.

Christchurch was our last destination, with that we put up our longest stays. After more than 2 weeks of hectic journey, we finally slowed down our pace to enjoy our last few days in Christchurch before our departure back to Malaysia on 22nd November.

Instead of spending all our times in Christchurch, we wondered off for a short day trip out to Kaikoura hoping for a close encounter with giant whale. Kaikoura is the base of whale, dolphin-watching tours. Unfortunately, much to our disappointment, we were unluckily to catch up with bad weather and most of the boat trips were cancelled.

We ended up strolling along the coastlines, taking photo with assorted colorful wild flowers.

Needless to say we couldn't miss the renowned landmark of Christchurch - Cathedral Square which located in the middle of the city. It was a working day when we were there, not many tourists around and we didn't manage to see the Wizard, the distinguished character who always wearing Wizard costume hanging around Cathedral Square giving speeches.

There are many churches around; no wonder this city was named Christchurch.

We came to the last episode in NZ, we left Christchurch early morning and made a transit overnight at Singapore before returning to Malaysia on 23rd Nov.

I had to conclude that this was certainly a memorable trip, I would cherished them forever.