NZ Trip Day 4 & 5 - TranzAlpine to Gerymouth, and Franz Josef

The last night in Rolleston YHA I meet Dave, from Canada Saskatoon which is where Andrew now living in~ He is a network analyst and got a 6 weeks holiday from his company~ 6 WEEKS!!! Yes, he said every time he finished a 6 months+ contract, the company will give him a 6 weeks holiday... Well...Can I have it in HK?

The schedule for Day 4 to get on a train from Christchurch and Greymouth. He got the same plan as me, so we get up together and wait for the bus. Cloudy day~ But it's good that there's no rain.

We arrived the Addington station, check-in, put down our luggage and settle down. The train departed on time, which is 8:15am.

This train is a bit different from normal train, because in the middle there is a open carriage, which means no window, and you can take great photos over there~

Not much to say about the journey, just wanna said more than half of the time, I'm not in my seat :p

After arrived Greymouth, settled down in Noah's Ark backpackers, then have a walk around the town. But it's Sunday, so there were not much to see. Have a walk in the supermarket which I missed for a long time, bought some meat, egg, mil, rice and cook my dinner. Well, I still can't cook well~ anyway~

Dave stayed in other hostel tonight.
The girl I met at Christchurch got another plan and she left directly after arriving Greymouth.

The next morning, the same, get up early, get on the bus and continue the journey.

But something stupid happened, forgot to take the egg, forgot to take the milk, forgot my SD card is still in my notebook and FORGOT TO TAKE MY TOWEL!! THE SUPER-QUICK-DRY-TOWEL WHICH STAY WITH ME FOR THE LAST 10 MONTHS, so sad... but what can I do? nothing, well got to use a small handkerchief to dry my body after bath...sigh...

anyway...

The bus started at Gerymouth, had a stop at Hokitika for a visit to the Greenstone factory. Then head to Ross, remember to do a spot of gold panning if you are there!! just NZD6.5 and I didn't do it!! And the couple sitting in front of me both of them they found some gold! ~O~

anyway...

Went through the Westland National Park, while it started to rain. Arrived Franz Josef @ 12:15pm~

Some of them go for a half-day hike on the Franz Josef Glacier, some of them wait for a full day hike, but for me, not much to do here coz I'm going to do a Ice-Climbing on my next stop, Fox Glacier.

So cold here~ 13C plus raining, and has been raining for over 7 hours. I hope it will get better on Wednesday, the day I'm going up to the glacier.


That's all for today, the next YHA I'll stay in will be in Queenstown, not sure if I can online on the coming two days~ Take care everyone, and enjoy the photos~

From TranzAlpine and Greymouth

From Franz Josef YHA

OiOi : That's true, it's much better when you're sharing the same room with a girl, just like tonight. XD


c : you too!


Raymond : Ok la~ haha~ unfortunately she's got her own plan~