On our last hiking day on the Milford Track, we had a 5-6 hour hike. Everyone had to make it to the end by 2:00 PM to catch the ferry to the bus back to Te Anau. The hike was nice and mostly flat with some mildly interesting places to stop along the way. Everyone stopped at the same place for lunch but there were a lot of sandflies so no one lingered long. At the final hut everyone waited for the ferry together and there was a collective feeling of accomplishment and relief.
Once we arrived in Te Anau, we dropped off our rental gear and headed straight for Queenstown for some amazing burgers at Fergburger. Seriously, if you are ever in Queenstown, have a burger at Fergburger, you will not regret it. We stopped at a pub on the water to have a couple beers and listen to some live music.
For our last day in New Zealand we had a several hour drive ahead of us to Christchurch where we caught our planes in the morning. We stopped at Lake Tekapo to get lunch and have an hour long soak in the hot pools to relax our muscles.
In Christchurch we ate at the same Indian restaurant we did when we first arrived in Christchurch two weeks earlier. Since we didn't see Christchurch last time, we headed downtown to walk around and check out the earthquake damage. There are still large parts of downtown that are not open to cars or pedestrians but there is also a lot of construction going on to get parts of it back up and running. It was crazy. Then we went home to bed.
In the morning we left for 30 hours of flights back to Boston to end our seven month trip around the world. Check back later this week for some trip end fotodumps!
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