Journey Around the World: Train ride from Auckland all the way to Wellington!

Friday, May 30, 2008

Train ride from Auckland all the way to Wellington!

We stayed at Auckland for only a night and the experience was bad enough! The bad luck experienced was probably an exchange for all the good times we had during our whole trip! Our booking at the hostel din go through, they gave us a crappy rm which was super messy, hostel was too commercialised, Nicolas. Hunkeler lost his slping bag and did not manage to return his rented car in time coz the rental shop closed at 4pm! All these happened in merely an hour after our arrival in Auckland! That is life! Das ist das Leben! The train ride was 12hours from Auckland to Wellington!! We set off before sunrise and arrived after sunset! I slept through most of the trip despite having paid 90NZD for the ride! I should be keeping my eyes open to appreciate the nice scenery! But oh well... I have a tendency to sleep during rides except roller coaster rides! The train ride reminded me of Die Bahn in Europe! Very similar... There were very few people and nic and i had the whole train to ourselves!








The sheeps were so cute! They were grazing a few from the railway track and all of them showed us their butts when the train approached!












Met Raizan and his wife in Wellington. Raizan is 8 years our VJ senior. He was the first VJ soccer captain if i did not get it wrong=) What a small world meeting him in New Zealand=)

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