the backpackers adventure begins

After packing everything we needed for two and a half weeks into backpacks we got on the bus early thursday morning in Ashburton and headed to Dunedin and spent the afternoon and evening seeing the city and arranging some travel plans for the next few days.  On Friday we set off with our packs to see the Dunedin Botanical Gardens and what is claimed to be the “steepest street in the the world”.  We then hoped on a bus and went to Te Anau .. finally heading into the mountains. 

Chinese New Year: we joined the parade just to cross the street

Dunedin Botanical Gardens - Alison, Me, Emily

flowers at the Dunedin Botanical Gardens

“the steepest street in the world” its steeper 

than this picture could ever show..

don’t stop just ‘give way’