Transport: Nakedbus (Napier - Wellington)
Napier started with the light drizzle in the morning to a downpour in the evening. Due to the bad weather, my bus was late for 35 minutes. The 6.5 hours journey to Wellington from Napier almost drove me crazy and i felt so dizzy & uncomfortable in the bus due to motion sickness.
It's near to night 10pm when i arrived at Wellington. Nakedbus dropped all of the passengers in front of McDonald. The freaking cold weather and strong wind made me felt shivery and nauseous. My handphone shown no signal and i couldn't use it to find the way to hostel! I felt so helpless that time by standing alone at the corner of the road with all the heavy luggage with me. Luckily my "angel" approached me. A tall guy from Germany has the map downloaded in his ipad. He accompanied me taking the bus and carrying my heavy luggage all the way to the hostel!
Unfortunately i cannot recalled his name and didn't met him anymore for the rest of days in Wellington :(
Place to stay: Base Wellington
Again, this is the second time i stayed at Base hostel. Not because of the quality of this hostel (and shouldn't be), just due to the only empty dorm bed i can afford in Wellington. Good backpacker hostels such as YHA or BBH are fully booked during the period.
Due to the previous experience i had in Taupo, this time i paid more for girls' dorm. But the staff simply put me into a mixed dorm by explaining that there is no empty bed in any girls' dorm. They claimed that it is the problem of Nakedsleep.com at the time of my booking, not theirs. I was so tired that day and i couldn't wait to have a bed, a blanket and a hot bath immediately! Therefore, without argument anymore, ended up i paid more to stay in a 4-bed mixed dorm again.
当短短一天内发生那么多事后，好运总会来到的！无意间居然发现有位一直想见面却见不到的朋友现在也在这里 :)) 啊，人生，总会有好事发生的 :)
What i have done here:
(a) Te Papa museum [admission free]
A must-see attraction in Wellington.
Website: www.tepapa.govt.nz [Fri-Wed: 10am-6pm, Thu: to 9pm)
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| 不知道这是什么，可是我觉得它长得好像千于千寻里面那个吃人兽耶 |
(b) Musuem of Wellington City & Sea [admission free]
Website: www.musuemofwellington.co.nz [10am-5pm]
(c) Parliament House [free] Highly recommended!
Website: www.parliament.nz [Mon-Fri: 10am-4pm,Sat: 10am-3pm,Sun: 11am-3pm)
I took the free one-hour tour to walk around the Parliament House and i really like it. For me, it's definitely inside one of the "must-do" lists. The tour departed from ground floor foyer.
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| General Assembly Library for members of Parliament |
(d) Wellington Botanic Gardens, Cable Car Museum [free]
It's quite convenient with the cable-car ride, i can assess to the cable car museum and botanic gardens. Only NZD3.50 one way for the ride.
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| Cable car museum |
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Follow the little pink flower! |
(e) Mt Victoria lookout [free]
It's not that difficult to climb up here, about 25 minutes will do.
(f) Exploring the city
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| Art Gallery [Free admission] |
We went to the night market at Cuba Street, and it was not many stalls as we thought. We followed the map from i-site and tried our best to explore each attraction one by one. It's fun to read the map and sometimes the locals will approach us to offer their help :)
Wellington is a place where my hairs get tangled easily as a result of the strong wind (how come it is blowing from different direction?!!),
