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+Title: Travel in New Zealand
+Url: /travel/nz/
+Save_as: travel/nz/index.html
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+<ul>
+ <li><a href="http://www.wwoof.co.nz/">WWOOF</a>: a work for food, housing, and education travel program</li>
+ <li><a href="http://couchsurfing.com/">couchsurfing</a>: a house stay social networking site</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/Tepapa/English/">te papa museum</a> in wellington</li>
+ <li><a href="http://wikitravel.org/">wikitravel</a> pages: <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/New_Zealand">whole country</a>, <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Tramping_in_New_Zealand">tramping</a> (aka hiking)</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.doc.govt.nz/">dept of conservation</a> (runs national parks)</li>
+ <li><a href="http://seat61.com/NewZealand.htm">seat61 NZ</a>: rail information
+</ul>
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+<h3>Trains</h3>
+See <a href="http://www.tranzscenic.co.nz/">tranz-scenic</a> for tickets.
+<ul>
+ <li><b>tranzcoastal</b> goes from Christchurch to Picton (top of the north island); one way from $64-73nzd, just over 5 hours leaving 0700. A joint tranzcoastal/interislander ticket is $119nzd</li>
+ <li><b>overlander</b></li> goes from Wellington to Auckland; one way is about 12 hours, departs 0725 and costs $100nzd</li>
+</ul>
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+<h3>Ferry</h3>
+The Picton-Wellington ferry costs about $72 per adult one way for a flexible ticket: cheaper inflexible web tickets are $52; see <a href="http://www.interislander.co.nz">http://www.interislander.co.nz</a>.
+
+<h3>Says a friend...</h3>
+<blockquote>
+You should go to milford sound and take one of the small boat cruises if you can. The waterfalls are over a mile high in most places -- they're more like vertical rivers than waterfalls... the pancake rocks in Greymouth are really worth seeing too. I really liked the city of Nelson a lot, it's very chill. I also liked Queenstown, but my brother (who's been living here for 9 months) didn't care for it. I only spent a few hours there though. My brother also didn't like Christchurch much.
+
+oh, and go to the craters of the moon near the caldera south of rotorua, they were pretty intense. boiling mud and steam shooting everywhere, I thought it was very cool. =)
+</blockquote>