A Hobbit For a Day

It's a dream comes true for me to finally see one of the famous LOTR filming locations which is the Hobbiton. Hobbiton is located at Matamata (which also meant police in Malay) and can be reached via tour bus from the main town nearby. According to our guide, it's built on Alexander's farm and it was actually torn down after the filming of the LOTR finished. It was only after the Hobbit trilogy is filmed and owner of the farm received...

Kaikoura to South Bay

So before my big hike at the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, our tour manager suggested us to do the small hike from Kaikoura to South Bay along the Kaikoura peninsula. He offered to send us to the starting point which is at Point Kean carpark but since we wanted to practise for our big hike, we decided to walk from the town to the starting point which we took around an hour. Along the way, we actually saw our tour manager driving past a few times and...

Tongariro Alpine Crossing

wow..I practically left my blog for the past two months. Although I am back since end of Dec last year, but another year end trip to Bangkok had me being away from the office for a month. Such a bliss. Tongariro Alpine Crossing I spent almost 3 weeks in New Zealand starting from the South Island and travel all the way up. One of the highlight of my trip is not the sight seeing in the South Island but rather this place in North Island. I signed...