Top 5 Things We Did in Wellington, New Zealand

Top 5 Things We Did in Wellington, New Zealand

Another Top 5 post takes us to windy Wellington, capital of New Zealand. We spent four days exploring the city, enjoying some incredible weather, and these are our favorite activities from that time. 

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Kiwi Road Trip Part II: Kaikoura, Motueka, Nelson & Picton

Kiwi Road Trip Part II: Kaikoura, Motueka, Nelson & Picton

We split our remaining time on the South Island between Kaikoura, Motueka, Nelson & Picton; a packed schedule considering we visited them all in just 8 days. But the long week included the most memorable wildlife encounter of our entire trip until then and still to this day: swimming with dolphins in Kaikoura. I remember finding out about the opportunity during one of the many weekends we spent researching our trip instead of enjoying the nice Los Angeles weather. “That's it, we're going to New Zealand”, I told Tyler as I jumped out of my seat and showed him my finding. Of course, there was more to the decision than that but I have to admit that my desire to visit NZ grew tenfold that day.

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Start of our Kiwi Road Trip: Mount Cook, Queenstown, and Milford Sound

Start of our Kiwi Road Trip: Mount Cook, Queenstown, and Milford Sound

New Zealand was somewhere both of us were extremely excited to visit. Anaïs had never been and, while I spent a semester in college studying at Otago University in Dunedin, I didn't explore the north island at all. We were excited to return to a few places I had been and to venture on to places new to us both. Given how expensive travel can be there, we planned to spend only about a month traveling across the country and we needed to make our time count.

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