DAY 2: 26/12/2012
Drive to Greymouth via Hanmer Springs
Started our 1.45 hr drive towards Hanmer Springs. We were accompanied by beautiful surrounding and breathtaking views with mountains moving along.
Hanmer Springs truely proved worth a boast in its websites.(http://www.hanmersprings.co.nz/)
Personally i just loved that place,probably because i love staying in water and that too in a thermal spa.
It has a number of different thermal pools like rock and sulphur pools(never smelt like sulphur there..but indeed some chlorine i guess) with varied temperature to suit ones comfort.
And since it has got only pools, you can imagine the soothing effect it can give to your eyes.(water ofcourse is soothing but there is a human factor about it)
But beware of dilemma which your eyes will have, after to decide which angle to focus and zoom...you may restart them once you get off the pool.
anyways, it was a great experience for the body and the soul within. :-)
Price: Affordable.close to 18$/adult for dip in all the thermal pools.
My Opinion Poll:
Must do. if you love to indulge in thermal fun and ultimate relaxation.
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After spending some refreshing time in the spa, it was the hungry stomach's alarm that took all of us out searching for a restaurant to attack.
Thanks to the free apps on the android of prakash that he seem to hook on to a restaurant called "Malabar".
Checked , checked and double checked how in this world is it possible that, In New Zealand, we might be sitting in a lunch table with Kerala dishes for our buds.
As this thought triggered our mind, it was again that famous RUN. (run here has only literally meaning...apparently we do not do any physical activity)or more appropriately we were rushing our walk.
Reaching Malabar:
Finally with the help of Google maps/directions , we reached "The Malabar". So the information on the app was not something like "last updated on june08,2008", which is nowadays common with all the results in google. (someone has to criticize google...:-))
website: http://www.malabar.co.nz
We could see some movement inside Malabar proving that there is SOMEONE inside, so possibility of food exists.
Sometimes entering a restaurant of your choice, satisfies the stomach. In this case, as soon as i started feeling that satisfaction, everything was swept apart by the restaurant boy.
It was strange, the restaurant guys telling us, "this is not what you are looking for. This is an asian cuisine but not a typical indian one".
I hope you didnt understand that. How could you, even we didnt. But hearing this,we thought that these guys dont have food and are just getting rid of us..so we went out walking again to find indian food.
We did find one restaurant close by which was apparently CLOSED. :-)
So we were left with Malabar again and we accumulated courage to open the doors to malabar and landed our buts on its chairs.
Done with the crazy ordering(crazy bcoz, sometimes or most of the time, our stomach orders food without asking the brain of how much it can eat)
So there was again a lot of food on the table and luckily this time it was an exquisite delight.
The food was great....touchwood.
if you happen to be in Hanmer Springs, do visit 'Malabar'
Good food and a full stomach never go with Long Drive:
We continued further heading towards Greymouth as the climate begins to change a bit towards cloudy.
Co-passenger and the crew were found sleeping....and since there was no Auto Pilot, pilot could only sleep with eyes open. That day we missed the Cruise control feature in our car.
On the way, there were plenty of opportunities to break for photo. We were tired so didnt make much use of those.
Reaching Greymouth:
We reached Greymouth close to 6 pm and took our place in our new accommodation.
It was a Seaside view 3 bed room apartment and i reckon the best in that small town of greymouth. it was called the Greymouth seaside top 10 holiday park.(www.top10greymouth.co.nz)
Just across the beach.
And it was a good one and affordable too.
We prepared ourselves for the next day drive as the sun sets in Greymouth.
A early morning walk with Aiysha on the beach was amazing.
DAY3 ....in the next post
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