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Detailed travelogue on Australia and New Zealand
Detailed Travelogue on Australia and New Zealand
Larry2006-05-27 03:23:16
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/>towns with interesting names: Clinton, and Gore. To top it off, Gore is
considered the Country-Western Music Capital of New Zealand, and they host a
country-western festival there each year. In Gore, I stopped to make some
phone calls, but didn't spend much time to look around.
A few hours after leaving Te Anau, I arrived in Dunedin, New Zealand's
college town. In the city, there are five universities, and the entire city
has a "youth" feel to it, much like an American college town. Dunedin is
also known as the birthplace of many famous New Zealand rock bands.
Dunedin itself is a town modelled after Scotland, and it shows in the
town's architecture. Scattered around the hilly streets are old churches,
rail stations, and other buildings that might fool a visitor into thinking
he was suddenly in Edinbourough. However, Dunedin is rather large, and
while it wasn't a bad city, I prefer the original Edinbourough much better.
The first thing I did upon arriving was try to find a place to park. In
Dunedin, this isn't easy. I wanted to stop at the visitor's center, but the
only parking anywhere nearby was short-term metered parking. So, after I
was finished at the visitor's center, I had to move the car to an expensive
parking garage to leave it for a few hours.
At the visitor's center (where, even with five attendants on duty, the
lines were long and slow), you could book a room for the night, and a tour
for the afternoon. I booked myself a cheap motel room outside the city
center, and asked about tours in the area. One of the reasons I wanted to
visit Dunedin was to see the penguins that inhabit the nearby Otago
Peninsula. There is a penguin "reserve" there, but tours of the reserve
must be booked in advance. The other tour I had heard about was one at the
local Cadbury chocolate factory.
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See photographs from:
Australia Gallery
,
New Zealand Gallery
