South Island Tour

Ann: I´ll tell you something about our south island tour.
We were three japanese girls, one brasil boy and girl and all the rest were germans. There were just nine boys and 37 girls. We had one leader and two other adults to take care of us and they all were female, too.
Our tour took 11 days. We met in Christchurch and went up the east coast through Kaikoura, Motueka, where we went kayaking in Abel Tasman National Park, where Marie, Bees; Kathy and I were with our PE-class before and then we went down the west coast to Franz Joseph, where I did a helicopter flight. After that we went to Wanaka and to Milford Sound and we were one day and one night on a boat in Doubtful Sound. From there we went down to Queenstown, where we stayed 3 days and our tour ended. Sadly we couldn´t stay in Christchurch because of the earthquake, so we straightly went to Kaikoura, where we wanted to go whale watching and swimming with dolfins, but the weather was too bad, so we couldn´t do that eather. The first days were a bit borind then, but so we had enough time to get to know all the others and never the less the trip was awesome!!
 In Queenstown we went jet boating and took the gondola up a hill, where we did two lugerides. The rest of the time in Queenstown we went shopping or did some optional activities.I want to tell you something about the optional activities I did now.
I did a 20 minutes helicopter flight up to the Franz Joseph Glacier with snow landing, which was very cool.
We could walk on the Glacier and of course we took some photos!
I also went 2 hours horseriding through some places where the lord of the rings was made. It was very nice, the nature is amazing! We were 8 people, Jule and I and some other people we don´t know. Jule and I were the only ones that have been horseriding before, so we just did 3 trabs and 4 or 5 gallops - or counters, how they say here - which was a bit boring, but I really enjoyed it and it was good to do horseriding again. We also saw a horse that played in the lord of the rings!!