We flew from Wellington to Christchurch on Saturday 19th and stayed at the YMCA for the week end. The rest of Saturday we spent exploring Christchurch. The next day we took the tourist bus to travel to Akaroa. Click on the next album to see the photos I took in Akaroa.
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island, with a population of around 300 000. It is also, arguably, the most attractive city in New Zealand, with extensive inner city public and private gardens and parks, the shallow Avon river meandering though the city centre, and a pedestrian oriented downtown centred on Cathedral Square.
It contains one of the two main international airports for the country, and is connected via a tunnel to a seaport at Lyttelton on Bank's Peninsula. Christchurch was a planned settlement founded by the English upper class, and this history is still apparent, both in the city's style and architecture, and in features like punts on the Avon, and the very English Christ's College school. http://www.christchurch.nz.com/
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