BACK TO CHRISTCHURCH

It was another day mainly travelling by bus and short stops along the way.
The weather was still drizzly and low cloud cover this morning and no chance of any helicopter flights so we didn't see anything of the two glaciers. It was a lot of windy roads climbing along the alps until we got close to the west coast at Ross then to Hokitika. We then travelled a little further north before turning east crossing the Southern Alps again to Christchurch. We were to have taken the TranzAlpine train to travel through Arthur Pass and Porters Pass and the Canterbury Plains but due to the recent fire the train won't be running again until next month so we had to do the road trip instead.
Four couples leave the tour here and the rest of us continue on to Blenheim tomorrow and I think we pick up some more passengers in Wellington for the rest of the tour.
Photos
Driftwood on the beach from the rivers
Arthur Pass Village
Views through Arthur Pass
Railway Bridge Arthur Pass
Rock Slide
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