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There are cheaper or faster ways to travel between Wellington and Christchurch. But I love boats, and I love trains. So, an alternative is a trip with KiwiRail Scenic Journeys , which combines the boat and train.
After 3.5 hours, the ferry across Cook Strait arrived in Picton at 1140am. I made my way out of the ferry terminal, and walked the short path to the train station nearby. My luggage on-board the ferry was automatically transferred onto the train, as I had paid for both legs of the trip in its entirety.
At 1pm, the Coastal Pacific train trundled out of Picton for the 5-plus hour journey to Christchurch, with key stops in Blenheim and Kaikoura. Ahead were smooth rolling hills; green meadows; salt flats (at Lake Greenmere); the rugged and snaking Pacific coastline around which the train-tracks clung; sea world vacation packages and finally, the emergence of the towering Kaikoura mountains, merely the northern extension of the much taller sea world vacation packages mountain range to the south.
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Hi, Leanne. I wrote just another day in New Zealand sea world vacation packages to mean the opposite of that! I was very lucky, I feel lucky that the weather was sunny and clear for most of the time I was in New Zealand; the South Island was an incredible experience and left indelible impressions. I would love to go back to New Zealand and spend even more time on each of the two islands. Thanks for your comment!
An advantage of the train is having someone else drive, being able to walk between carriages, and there s even running commentary about scenery, locations, history, etc. An advantage of driving a hired car is stopping everywhere on demand to make photographs; this in turn can also be a disadvantage sea world vacation packages , as I d be stopping a lot!
Hi, and thanks! I did two of three available train journeys with KiwiRail; I ll have another upcoming post on the second journey, which was an east-to-west crossing over the South Island. I hope you can hop on a train when you re in New Zealand!
Hey, Erik. Clearly, there are advantages and disadvantages to taking the train or hiring one s own vehicle. I d like to think the advantages of taking the train outweigh sea world vacation packages the disadvantages. In a car, I would stop everywhere sea world vacation packages and it would take forever to reach my intended destination.