Spent most of the time today in the car as we had to drive all the way from Omarama to Motueka. We had a stop at Lake Pukaki Visitor Centre for the Mt. Cook Alpine Salmons, $30 for 5 people. People said that the salmons here are the best in the South Island so we didn't even tried to save money on this. As expected, it was really nice! For those who will come to New Zealand, I highly recommend this, it's perfect.
We also passed by Lake Tekapo on the way to Christchurch, where we had a stop at Hagley Park. It wasn't nice at all in Hagley Park, there were too much green there. Some of the maple trees weren't even red but fully green. But still, the atmosphere here were kind of warming, family and friends walking around and enjoying themselves.
We left Hagley Park after 20 minutes to a Chinese restaurant serving Sichuan dishes, it's called Ancestral Restaurant or 老地方. The dishes there are not cheap but we ordered 4 dishes which summed up to $74 for 5 of us. The dishes were big, enough for us to be full until we got home at 11pm after dropping two travel mates. We took off from Christchurch at around 4.30pm.
In conclusion, I enjoyed this mini road-trip very much and I pretty much got an idea where to go for my longer road-trip in few months time. Now what I had to do is save some more money.
Simple budget breakfast
Omarama Dunstan Downs Backpackers
We stopped at the side of highway for the view of the reflective lake along the highway.
Lake Pukaki
We bought the salmons inside of this visitor centre
Just a statue
Sweet life...
Lake Tekapo
Along Lake Tekapo
Maple Border in Christchurch
Lunch at Ancestral Restaurant.
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