Early morning 7am, the sun was not really up yet. Looking out from the balcony of our hotel room, we could see the mountains covered with snow, it was only -4C! Freezing cold...
Imaging waking up every morning looking out at this scenery, I think people here must be happier than the others.
Okay, at last glance around our hotel, tourism is really a big business here, there were more hotels than residential houses. And then, we were on our journey driving back to Christchurch.
At road side, there were people stopped their car at a side and ran up the hill to play with the snow.
All the way from Queenstown to Christchurch took us about 7 hours driving. Each sides of road were sheep, deers, cows, swine and horses.... every where around New Zealand. It is indeed a country with livestocks populations many folds more than the residents.
A sheep in the ranch, drawing our attention.
I've never seen any free ranging swine in Malaysia before, our swine are all staying in very squeezy houses.... Are these free ranging swine happier?
Herds of cattles, we made a mistake winding down the car window to take the picture. And the heavy smell of ammonia immediately rushed into our car and almost killed us! Those ammonia came from the cow dungs! I can imagine how much electric power can be generated from the gas there!
Once arrival at Christchurch city centre, we rushed for our last minute shopping at this wool products factory outlet.
They are selling wool products at up to 70% lesser than retail price!
And these are what we got, at 50% lesser than retail price.
The factory outlet we visited were just one of the few factories which are still operating. Most of the others in the city centre were destructed during the previous earthquake in February.
Some of the buildings there were still under reconstruction.
Some were left untouched, fenced up, restricted entrance.
And some roads were closed. GPS map that we had no longer up to date in this case.
These buildings were left abandoned....
And this is a brand new McDonald outlet operates after the one in the city centre destructed. It was built outside the affected area.
And finally, we headed to Christchurch Airport, dropped our rental Camry at valet and checked in for flight return to Malaysia.
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