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
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<h3>Trains</h3>
See <a href="http://www.tranzscenic.co.nz/">tranz-scenic</a> for tickets.
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 <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>
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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>
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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. =)
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