Seventh Day at New Zealand - Greymouth

We were heading to Greymouth that day and that was going to be the longest journey for us during our stay at New Zealand. Google map estimated close to 6 hours drive. As usual, it would never be correct. 

We had our normal breakfast, bread with peanut butter and jelly and also Indomie. Since there is left over rice from thai food yesterday, i cooked a portion of fried rice for lunch. We probably won't see any asian restaurant on our way to greymouth today. I also warmed up some ready make pizza and frozen food that we bought from grocery store. 

We planned to stop by at Fox Glacier and have a short hike there to see the glacier. Of course we should not miss this. However, when we passed by the town, it was showering. So, we decided to skip this time and carry on our journey to greymouth. 

We stopped by at a visitor centre on our way to have lunch in the car. 

The plan of going to greymouth is to look for jade. We stopped by at a city before greymouth, called Hokitika. There are one big jade store there. But eventually we did not get anything. 

It took us about 9 hours to reach greymouth. Yes, finally we reach the town. It's really nothing much in the area. It's a very small town. We headed to our hotel. I have booked Top Ten Holiday Park Motel. You will be able to find top ten holiday park at almost everywhere in New Zealand. They have different type of apartment and motel. Aside from that, they also provide common bathrooms, kitchen, and common living room for poeple who camp there. I believe they need to pay certain fee to camp in the park. By the way, this park is located just beside a cemetery. 

Our rooms are pretty decent. It's not located in a building though. It's like a studio apartment. As we enter in the room, there are a big sofa, one queen bed, and another single bed. This studio apartment can fit 3-4 people. The motel is not great, but also not too bad. Just that we realized there was a strong smell of smokes from outside. Since it's a park, people can smoke. Therefore the non smoking room will not make a different because the smoke smell will enter our room if we open the door. 

After a lot of considerations, we decided to leave greymouth the next morning for christchurch. Luckily, we were still able to get an apartment at christchruch. It's the same place where we are going to stay for our last day at NZ. I quicky made a reservation from expedia. Our second night hotel booking at greymouth was forfeited. 

After settling all neccessary things, it's time for dinner. We went to a chinese restaurant in town. I can't recall the name. But food was only ok. All of us had chow mien. 

From there, we again went to New World grocery store for shopping. We saw this organic ice cream again. The similar brand that we had at Astro Cafe.