We Went To New Zealand And Made A Movie About Most Amazing 19 Days Of Our Lives

“You’re mental”, “Crazy couple” – that’s what we’ve heard almost everyday when somebody asked us about our way of travelling across NZ. Why? In 19 days, we have managed to visit so many places and experience so many things, that most of the people do in 2-3 months. But let’s start from the beginning.

In 2013, while we were in Australia, we decided to catch a plane to New Zealand and go for a 3 days side trip.The moment we’ve seen the rolling green hills dotted with fluffy little sheeps, there was no way back. We’ve immediately fell in love with this country. We’ve promised ourselves that someday we will come back.

Two years later, we stumbled upon a promotional flights to New Zealand. Without thinking too long, we have booked two tickets for April 2016.

Our adventure was about to start. We have started with a long list of places to see and things to do. We had to take into account our budget and distances between those places and finally we managed to shorten the list, but it still resembled “mission impossible”. After analyzing the list one more time, we came to a conclusion that we are not able to discard even one of those points. We won’t be traveling to New Zealand every single year, very likely it will be our second and the last time there, so we have to do everything to make our dreams come true.

In order to achieve it we have undertaken the following simple steps:
– We have rented a car to be more independent and flexible and not to lose time waiting for the public transportation or buses riding along the country.
– We went shopping to buy things that will be essential for our trip on the first day and stored everything that we need in the car.
– We have decided to sleep in a tent to save money, which finally occurred not to be possible due to the low temperature (around 2 °C in the early morning). However, we still slept several times in a car if hostels were located too far from our “starting point” for the next morning.
– We have bought a New Zealand sim card with 2GB mobile data package to avoid searching for WiFi hotspots.
– While one of us was driving, the passenger was responsible for charging all of the electronic devices (USB car charger with multiple slots is a must!) and booking all of the required things for the next day. We were spending a lot of time in a car so we just couldn’t waste it.
– The most obvious but the most important and hardest thing – we decided to sleep less and get up earlier to gain 2 more hours each day.

As you can see, a good plan and logistics are the key to success.

Of course, you cannot control everything. There was one thing, we didn’t manage to do as our car broke down. Besides that, everything went just perfect! We drove over 4500 kilometers with our car, we have done so many amazing things and overcome our fears. At times we were exhausted but amazing views compensated tiredness.

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