Day 20: To Christchurch

21 november

We had to get up to get to Christchurch. As there was no real alarm clock we used my telephone. First and last time I used my telephone as alarm clock -> didn't wake up from it. Had everything packed already and were ready to go in about 5 minutes, which was good because everybody was waiting.

We had to leave early for two reasons:

it was a long trip to Christchurch
Around Queenstown they were busy with road constructions that requires the whole road to be closed. Each hour it was open for only 20 minutes. If you are not on time you have to wait till the next hour. Luckily we made it.

Along the way we made a few stops, most without a lot of other tourist. One stop was pretty densely tourist populated: near an old church. You had to time it a bit to get a picture without lots of tourist on it.

We also went by Mt. Cook, but it was hidden in clouds.

Around 17:30 we arrived in Queenstown. The YMCA (yep, that is the name of the place we were going to stay) that was our original target for staying was full, so we went to the Stonehurst. It is some kind of upgrade youth-hotel. There were 6 showers for 14 rooms, which took a bit to get used to as we were accustomed to having our own shower in the room. The most fuzzy thing about the place was the wiring of the lightning.