This was the 2 levels bus!When arrived over there, it was only 7am of the next morning, after I have spent quite a while to look for the backpacker, I started to take a bus for my first journey, which was Otari WIlton's Bush. And this was the city center of Wellington. The city was so so nice, all the buildings and the streets were so delicate. Old buildings, wide path for pedestrians, even wider than the street which are fully decorated by fountains, sculptures, one lane street in the city, I am sure everyone will enjoy walking in this city.
This is the bush, exactly, only the bush, nothing else is there. Therefore, I decided to come out early.. BUt unfortunately, I lost in the bush!!!!
AFter I spend so much time, I finally came out, but....... there was a big cemetery, and I was alone there... =.=" scary... after a few minutes, a man came over me, and asked me:"Where do you wanna go?" Then, he said:"Follow me". Even though like the scary movie scene, but I was lost, so no choice and just followed him.. Luckily he is a good men, on the way kept introducing me Wellington, until my destination, I was so grateful for him.. Finally, this was my next destination, Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, it was one of the famous regional park to protect animals especially birds which ancestor was a big dam to supply water demand for Wellington about 100 years ago.
This nice Gothic style architecture actually was a controller of the dam, either to keep or release the water.
This is the dam
This was the gold mine in this sanctuary, and we went in to see the weat(the biggest insect in the world), but not the gold, =.=".. A lot of birds are here as well, But I was just not lucky enough to see all types of birds.
After about 4 hours walk, I finally reached the end of the dam, which was a tall and big wall to block the water. It was so cool, standing up there, looking at the big bushes, so relaxing...
Actually it was much 'greener' than my pictures, just my camea is not a good one, can't take a nice one...Anyway, I really love bush walking now... Next, took the bus back to city center and walked around. See... It was really nice the city..
At night, I cooked my first ever dinner, don't see this was easy, even though the sauce was well prepared, because I fried the chicken and then mixed with cabbage and pasta. But actually I almost burnt the kitchen!!! Because I put too much oil, and my chicken was also not well cooked actually. So, I know there Beauty kitchen, the girls can't cook are reasonable!!!! However, finally I cooked a little longer and surprisingly the uncooked chicken has become the most delicious dish.
I have my dinner with a French girl she was there to improve her English and travelling. BAckpacker is just a place to meet everyone from all over the world. The next morning, I walked to the Lambton Quay, to the Parliament direction, about 45 minutes walk from my backpacker. And these are some other nice scenes on my way, the buildings are all facing the sea, so nice, no wonder my friend said it looked like Hong Kong.
First of all, I went to Old St PAul, a cathedral, but I found that it was that nice, only a small wooden praying room is nice,
Soon, I went to the next stop, Parliament. U must be wondering what can I visit in Parliament. Here, there is a parliament tour which is free to introduce everything of Parliament, include the architecture, NZ legislation and electoral system, and some basic politics. It is so nice in the parliament but unfortunately I can't bring the camera. There are only a few pictures here of the parliament. The nice one is the parliament library but the round thing like a machinery is the main parliament building. Public is welcome to listen to their discussions or debates, but just not on my day.. ~.~
My next stop was another cathedral, this looked much better but my camera... haiz... only this quality...
Soon, I went to Wellington Museum, it is a museum which focus on Wellington history, I really knew so much from there. Below was the pictures in a small cabin of an old boat, very nice and delicate.
Then, I took a cable car up to a hill, where I can see the view of whole Wellington, very nice eh? Especially when the cable car passing by, I like that picture so much... And also a big big rose garden,
This was my second night dinner, same materials, but I fried everything, it taste much better than previous night, haha... huge improvement..
It looked the same woth previous night one, because I only bought those materials and I gotta finish all before I go. Finally, I have the same thing for 4 meals!!! =.=" No pasta anymore please...aT NIGHT, my room suddenly came two English who will be here for only 1 night. The girl was so funny and I am really happy to know them.Final day, I went to the national museum, Te Papa, it was so nice, I spent 4 hours to see everything there.
I am so lazy to describe everything, but just everything is so good. The last picture which is so messy like grocery store, it is actually a show about NZ history, whenever a story or an event was talked about, something related will move, so interesting and I like it so much.
Then, I took a flight from Wellington back to Auckland. I love the trip, even though I was alone, but I met a lot of new friends. Even though it was not that 'action trip', but it was a cultural trip, I know a lot of new knowledge, interm of history and geography of NZ and Wellington, which is valuable and memorable...
Now I have to back to another reality, and start packing my stuffs, to head to my second trip----- BAy of Islands
