New Zealand trip

These few days Joe and I are busy planning for our family new Zealand trip. We planned to visit both islands and only have 10 days or so for the trip. Joe and I went there 12 yrs ago for honeymoon and we told ourselves then that we will bring our kids back for visit. So, NZ being so near to Australia and so we decided to make the trip before we go back to Singapore in December for good.

Lots of things to see and do. At the north island, we will bring the kids to visit Kiwi fruit farm, visit glow worms and explore cave, see kiwi birds and other animals, soak in a mud pool, visit hot springs, see all the geothermal activities and visit Maori culture and eat their food. They will even get to stay in show farms hotel and visit the fliming sets of "Lord of the Rings" if we have time. We will finalize the final tour itinerary.

As for the south island, in Queenstownm we will bring them to ride the gondola and luge in Queenstown, take the shotover jet, bring them to see others doing Bumgy jump. After that, we will drive to milford sound to visit the beautiful milford sound. Hopefully we can catch sight of dolphines and whales and other wildlife there. After that, we will go for farm stay between Te Anau and Dunedin.Hopfully there will have lots to see on the working farm. We will proceed to find the Moeraki Boulders and try to visit the wildlife there. The Albatross colony, the fur seals, the yellow penguins, the blue penguins and so on. We will see if we have any time to see all these fabulous creatures. After the coast, we will drive towards Mount cook so that we can catch the Glacier. We won't be going to Fox Glacier / Franz Josef Glacier since they are at the other side of the island. We will just visit Mount cook and take a tour there. Told Joe maybe to take a helicopter up the mountain but the cost is too much. No way are we going to spend that kind of money la. After the glacier, w will head back to Christchurch and then take a plane back to Australia.

So far, the conservative estimated cost of having it all is about $15000. We will see how we wanna fine tune everything. The booking of airfares is a problem since we are not sure how to go about booking for all the flights. Will figure out. The car and motels and tour packages at various places of interest too. By doing everything ourselves and self drive, we will save a total of $10k and also the flexibility to adjust the tour according to our needs.

God bless everything will go as planned.