Another gondola ride.

After a buffet breakfast in the hotel, we headed off. Plans for today are to ride the gondola to the top of Mount Cavendish, overlooking Lyttleton, and then to take a punt on the River Avon back in Christchurch.

As we were to travel by public transport, we walked to the bus interchange and took the number 8 Lyttleton bus which dropped us off right at the gondola station.

This climb is not as steep as the Queenstown gondola. From the top the view is across Lyttleton and its harbour. Lyttleton harbour played an important role in Antarctic exploration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Explorers would dock here and stock their ships before heading south.

A coffee in the cafe at the top helped the view go down. Then it was time to take the return trip down in the gondola and take the number eight back to town.Les mer