Jalan Jalan New Zealand: The touchdown.

السلام عليكم & 안영 to all ♥♥

One of the trip yang stucked in my draft tab. I will make it into few posts. This post might be long, might be not. And I might have forgotten most of the thing. Tapi saya cuba sedaya upaya saya. This trip was around May last year. Almost a year ago kot. 

This one friend had been bugging me to go travel with her; anywhere but we never really plan anything about it. For me, if you don't have specific place to go... It would be hard to even plan cause we do not have definite place to go. Takkan nak study banyak banyak tempat?

Tiba tiba AAX announced route to New Zealand. Oh my goodness. Dalam banyak2 tempat! So my friend and I terus tergedik-gedik menunggu the official booking date. Normally the rate would be cheaper time route baru bukak. Slightly cheaper, I mean.

So it's then confirmed, we're going to New Zealand! However, we're going to the southern part; South Island. FYI, for now AAX only has one route to NZ; KL - Auckland. Auckland is in the northern part; North Island. Masa tuh baru tau keadaan geografi NZ nih. Mencabar jugak lah study map dia. But it's quite straight-forward actually.

Oh bear in mind that this route ada transit dekat Gold Coast, Australia. Bukan direct flight. Oh no need to apply for Australian Visa for this. We actually did, tapi dia tak check pon cause we didn't go through the Australian immigration time transit. Transit dia sejam sahaja, korang setakat sempat buat security check, pergi toilet, minum air sekejap then dia dah panggil naik kapal terbang balik. Nothing much. Nak cakap Gold Coast I was here pon macam tak dan.

During KL-Gold Coast flight, I was sitting beside a guy I think. No chat whatsoever. And he turun dekat Gold Coast. So I had a new partner during my Gold Coast-Auckland flight, which was a Muslim lady. She's going to visit her relatives in NZ, if I'm not mistaken. So we did chat a bit. She asked about the menu cause she's about to order for her family members; her husband and two boys. Of course I suggested her to take the infamous Nasi Lemak Pak Nasser! Hahaha. Had to explain a bit about the dish, and she loved it I think. She said it tasted good. Okay the moment of bangga sekejap.  Oh and I suggested that she should come to Malaysia one day. Haruslah promote negara sendiri kan?

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At the very beginning, we thought of doing the caravan trip cause it would be awesome! So I asked Zureen since she had done that before. Apart from that I've contacted a different NZ-based tour guide. And she's a Malaysian named Kak Aida. She was the sweetest, she layan all my soalan and stuff. But in the end, after re-calculate the cost; we decided to just do a normal road trip. Not a caravan trip. Cause it would be just the three of us. Less cost; in short. But we're not doing back-packing as well. No. I even DM-ed Hani Sharaf to ask stuffs. And I asked her not to tell Farhana Bakri. Lalalala~

Oh before I forgot, my partners in crime for this #LDLtakesNZ trip were; Lelang and Lems. Lems is Lelang's friend from high school. I've never met her before this trip. In the making of kawan baru jugak lah kiranya.

We decided to go to Christchurch from Auckland to reach the South Island. They're a few medium of transportation that can be used to reach there. We chose the airplane; cause it's faster! As we reached Auckland that evening, the only airline that fit our time was Air New Zealand. It was nice, we learnt to drop our own baggages for the first time there. Like how they're trying to apply it here now. Memang kelam kabut jugak sebab tak tahu macam mana nak buat and kebetulan there were no staff around. So menarik. End up we asked the other passengers who were around. Leuls.

Touchdown baby!

OOTD yang tak berapa meyakinkan.

Me, Lelang & Lems.

Gigih lah sorong bag ke luar semata-mata nak ambil gambar dekat luar bangunan. It was windy so start lah seronok jakun bagai dengan udara sejuk sikit tuh. Oh it was drizzling, I think. Who knew, itu hanyalah starter episode hujan di sana.

Akak tuh busy buat kira-kira perbelanjaan.

Sementara menunggu nak masuk dalam, acah acah minum hot chocolate. 

anti-social bila dah dapat WiFi

For our first night in Christchurch, we decided to stay somewhere very close to the airport. As we would arrive quite late that night. We spent a night in this lovely cottage. You can check for Water Lily Garden if you're looking for somewhere to stay here.

It was already late when we reached Christchurch. We met Mr Cameron from Shoestringrentals cause we rented a car from him for our trip. He showed us around, the do's and don'ts. It was really dark, and all of us were already dead tired. We spent the past 24 hours in-flight. Almost. So we couldn't wait to see our bed for the night!

Oh and we rented the GPS as well, as we wouldn't need to be using our mobile data throughout our journey. We bought a traveller sim from Vodafone in the airport if I'm not mistaken. Only one sim to be shared among us. Nak jimat oi, simcard dia mahal noks.

So with the help of our GPS, we searched for the place. It was dark outside. The streetlights were super dimmed. And and and and the speed limit was no joke; 60 kmh the maximum? Untuk kita2 yang dah biasa tak tengok speed limit nih, dia macam wei wei giler kentang nak slow macam nih. It was really tough guys. Since I was the one who drove the car first; macam makcik lah akak drive time tuh. 

We safely arrived at Water Lily Garden and I bet everyone's already sleeping. It was dark. It was really dark guys. I think we've notified them that we're gonna be late so yeah. Upon entering the place, we saw our cute cottage with my name on the door. That was nice. Yup that's it. The room was super cute for the three of us. My bad I didn't snap a picture inside cause I was dead tired and we needed to get up early tomorrow. We would be having a long trip for the next day. 

This was our cute little cottage.

We were running out of time actually. Cause before we started our journey for the day, we'd like to go to the grocery first. So we headed out, packed up our stuff into the car and the owner saw us. We greeted each other, she was really sweet but I totally forgotten her name. She asked us to have breakfast first. Ktorg pon tak makan apa lagi, yela dah lambat so layankan aja.

I super love the dining area! You could see a little pond outside. Feeling2 ompotih pagi2.

The little pond.

I wish to have a house like this. So cantik and menenangkan.

We settled the payment and we're ready to go!

The first driver of the day.

Dah masuk highway. Highway depa macam jenis jalan kampung. Mostly memang satu lane sahaja. Speed limit paling tinggi adalah 100kmh. Good luck ye kawan-kawan yang terasa nak memandu di sini. Bayangkan jalan lengang gitu, kental lah drive. Hahaha.

We got a little bit excited when we saw a Caravan.

The famous NZ cows.

At one point, speed limit dia 70kmh sahaja. Sila patuh ye kawan kawan.

Just then we were mesmerized by the beautiful view. Subhanallah. Memang cantik sangat so we decided to stop. And ambil gambar! I didn't know what was the name of this place cause we randomly stopped. Trust me, just stop whenever you rasa the view is lawa. Kiri kanan toleh memang lawa sangat. Kawasan gunung ganang dia memang cantik lah buat album kahwin. Tak tipu punya. But be safe. Park your car properly at the road side. Kita nih dekat negara orang, so elok eloklah.

Selamba je tak tutup pintu macam tuh uolls. Jangan tiru aksi kami.

The same caravan just now.

We finally arrived at Lake Tekapo. As we parked our car, kami kinda berkira-kira untuk keluar cause it started to drizzle. Macam alahai dah hujan pulak. Tapi lantak pi lah kan, dah datang jauh2 takkan nak patah semangat disebabkan hujan? Kahkahkah. So gigih lah kami bertiga melawan angin dan hujan. Gigil bhai, tapi persetankan aja semua itu. Hahahaha

Model of the day.

Taknak pergi dekat dengan air sebab lagi sejuk. Barai

We continued our journey to Lake Pukaki. Dekat sini you could see banyak caravan so I guess it's one of the places that you stay for a night, I mean for a camping/caravan? The view for me was kinda creepy. I mean, it looked like macam horror movie omputih, you know. It just gave me chill looking at the area, so we didn't stay that long. But the view was still amazing! Seriously.

Feeling2 Twilight. HAHAHAHAHA

The drizzling rain was getting harder. We managed to find Twizel Holiday Park. We already booked a room there before hand. Well, we've booked everything in advance actually. Mudah kerja di sana kan?

Semua stock kebulur bila dah sampai bilik. The good thing was our room just located beside the common area. There two girls inside, one with her laptop while another was doing something else. So what did we have that night? Nasi impit with sardine. We used the Holiday Park's pots to boil the nasi impit while my own Korean periuk for the sardine. 

Alhamdulillah kenyang. Janji dapat nasi uolls. Dasar Melayu. Kahkahkahkah.

Flatlay yang gagal.

I shall continue with the next part. I hope very soon for it. Thanks for reading guys!

Nota kaki: Gambar sangat banyak actually untuk share semua dekat sini. So ini hanyalah gambar-gambar yang terpilih.