Mon, 28th August 2006: Christchurch, New Zealand

I woke up at 10 am. May be the reason is that my body is still working according to Australian time that is 2 hrs behind NZ time. First of all, I went online, updated my blog, VT and sent emails around. I finally left for the city center at around 2pm. Took photos all the way through. In the city center, my first stop was visitor’s center. It was pretty big with almost everything, which a tourist wants! In my opinion New Zealand is one of the easiest countries in the world to travel as a tourist because everything is made easy for tourists. You get lots of brochures and pamphlets from various companies offering more or less the same tour/offer. The dorm beds are available from 10 USD onwards per night per person. This is the cheapest price I have ever heard of in developed countries.

After the visitors center, from where I also bought my Tranzalpine ticket for tomorrow from Christchurch to Greymouth. It was 69 NZ$ where as the bus was just 30 NZ$, lets see tomorrow whether it was worth it. I went on aimlessly exploring Chch and doing on n off little souvenir & postcards shopping. Finally I sat down by the side of river Avon and wrote down cards to Papa & Akram uncle. After that I went online, met Andrew and had a good conversation with him over coffee about life in Christchurch. Then I had my dinner and went home but the whole night I spent online watching Pakistan’s first ever 20 Twenty international match against England, which Pakistan won.

I am feeling that it’s getting more and more difficult to write my journal. I don’t know how to motivate myself.