Our cruise ship was docked in Tauranga for 2 days. The first day we spent at Waimarino adventure park, from where we had scheduled an evening Glow Worm kayak tour.
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Our tour bus from Akaroa brought us to the Christchurch Canterbury Museum, where we were supposed to relocate to the minivan for the Christchurch sightseeing tour. The Museum is world-renowned for its natural and human history collections.
The most French town in New Zealand, Akaroa impressed us with its historic buildings, magnificent harbor and passion for fine food.
Akaroa, a charming town on the Banks Peninsula, that retains some of its French heritage from 1840, when the French settled it before the British. Although the British took possession, the French chose to stay. It’s situated at the mouth of a harbor, but all around it steep hills rise up from sea level.
After the wildlife cruise, a bus was waiting to take us to the Penguin Place, where the rare Yellow-Eyed Penguins reside.
As our cruise ship was moving closer to the disembarking port, we started noticing the beautiful, picture perfect shores of the New Zealand’s South Island.
On this day, our 12-day New Zealand cruise has begun. Our Celebrity Solstice ship departed from Sidney towards New Zealand’s South Island to Fiordland. This remarkable natural environment features stunning fiords, spectacular waterfalls and snow-capped peaks.