Post #130309 by Gigantalope on Fri, Dec 10, 2004 6:58 PM

I liked the South Island much more. Mt Cook is the Mutt's nuts...stunning spot. Dunedin is so much like Bonny old Scocia, you will think you are there.

Queenstown is kinda the touritsy "Advencha" spot...lots of Rafting, Bungee Jumping, Jet Boats etc.
There's even (or was) a Mexican Restaurant there which claims to be the furthest south one in the world.

Whitebait is the Kiwi food that everyone sez you gotta try. It's a small fish netted, and cooked in eggs. It's not bad.

The Wine Sceen there is booming, as was the Micro Brewery industry.

I quite liked riding the train there, some old slow curvy tracks where you can see the front part of the train turining sharply as it bends from middle and back part (that's sharp for a train)

There is a cartoon called "Footrot Flats" drawn by a guy named Murray Ball that sort of encapulastes the average Kiwi. It's about a Border Collie, and sort of about his owner. If you get a chance to read it, you will "get" many of the jokes and referances of locals.

I only know of one person who didn't like it there, but it was me.

I was only there a few weeks, but mostly hated it.

I would much rather go to Tasmania.