It's Day 3. Today's final destination is Dunedin & Cadbury World..!! Yumss
We checked out Avenue Hotel, Oamaru @9.30 am.
'Home'made breakfast menu for today: Bread with Scrambled Egg & Cereal.
Tips:
Timing is important when you are in a road trip kinda holiday. Plan well.
#1: Wallaby Park, Waimate
We headed back to Wallaby Park since it was near closing time yesterday when we arrived. The place is open @ 10am. Deena really wanted to pet the wallabies. Let see how close she can get :-)
Where's Deena? She ran away. haha.! She tried to feed the wallabies but they got too close & mcm kiss2 her hand. Deena ckp dia nk gigit mama..! So she shy away. :-)
We had a lovely feeding session with the wallabies, which were so tamed..! And we were very fortunate to meet Gwen, the owner of the place. Deena & Haris got to hold the baby wallaby handed by Gwen herself. Such a friendly lady with so much passion for wallabies. She first got the orphaned ones way back in 1977 & then decided to open the Wallaby Park for public viewing in 1999 & this time she decided to charge visitors for some small fee, having seen such interest from people visiting Waimate. Well, she needs to maintain the place clean & feed them wallabies well right?
From Waimate, we passed Oamaru again.. Some photos for your viewing pleasure..
& then we decided to stop at this really cool place - steam generated train called Steampunk?
Saw this place earlier at the late evening when we went to the penguin place.
#2: Mouraki Boulders
Ok next stop was Mouraki Boulders which is just 500m from the main road. However, to see the boulders which are actually round beach rocks, you have to hike for about 10 min from the beach entrance. However, in the interest of time, we didn't go up to the boulders part.
#3: Dunedin
Ok finally, the last stop for the day, Dunedin, the cadbury town..!!
We arrived Dunedin at around 2.20pm & straight away head to the Cadbury Factory or I think it was actually called the Cadbury World. We took the 2.45pm tour.
During this tour, no camera, hp and handbags allowed..! We had to keep them in the lockers provided. I guess they do not want people sneaking out those chocolates..! hehe.
Ok, so no physical pictures in the factory itself peeps. Sorry. They are all in our memories though. "Sweet chocolatey memories".
The activities during the tour:
Okay next it's the Baldwin Street famously known & declared as the World's Steepest Street..!
Dinner at KL Aroma for beriyani. Owner of this halal restaurant in the town of Dunedin is not a Malaysian. He's a Sri Lankan. Price for each lamb beriyani & nasi lemak = NZD 14.90. But sekeping roti canai costs RM 2.50 (ok, kena convert to NZD ya. ngee)
We checked out Avenue Hotel, Oamaru @9.30 am.
'Home'made breakfast menu for today: Bread with Scrambled Egg & Cereal.
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| Our SUV parked right infront of our room @ Avenue Hotel |
Timing is important when you are in a road trip kinda holiday. Plan well.
Places that we went at Day 3:
Here's the list in summary
#1 - Wallaby Park, Waimate
#2 - Mouraki Boulders
#3 - Dunedin - Cadbury World, Baldwin Street (World's steepest street)
Here's the list in summary
#1 - Wallaby Park, Waimate
#2 - Mouraki Boulders
#3 - Dunedin - Cadbury World, Baldwin Street (World's steepest street)
We headed back to Wallaby Park since it was near closing time yesterday when we arrived. The place is open @ 10am. Deena really wanted to pet the wallabies. Let see how close she can get :-)
Where's Deena? She ran away. haha.! She tried to feed the wallabies but they got too close & mcm kiss2 her hand. Deena ckp dia nk gigit mama..! So she shy away. :-)
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| Happy face...! able to hold the wallaby baby.. :-) |
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| One group photo with Gwen, the owner |
From Waimate, we passed Oamaru again.. Some photos for your viewing pleasure..
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| The scenery from Waimate to Oamaru |
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| the town that we passed through |
& then we decided to stop at this really cool place - steam generated train called Steampunk?
Saw this place earlier at the late evening when we went to the penguin place.
#2: Mouraki Boulders
Ok next stop was Mouraki Boulders which is just 500m from the main road. However, to see the boulders which are actually round beach rocks, you have to hike for about 10 min from the beach entrance. However, in the interest of time, we didn't go up to the boulders part.
#3: Dunedin
Ok finally, the last stop for the day, Dunedin, the cadbury town..!!
We arrived Dunedin at around 2.20pm & straight away head to the Cadbury Factory or I think it was actually called the Cadbury World. We took the 2.45pm tour.
Ok, so no physical pictures in the factory itself peeps. Sorry. They are all in our memories though. "Sweet chocolatey memories".
The activities during the tour:
- Free tasting of the hot, freshly cooked chocolate - with the choice of sprinkles -from oreo, to jelly beans to pretzels. So many choices of chocolates - dark chocolates, white chocolates, milk chocolates...Sedap nya la hai pretzels with chocolates, where the salty-ness of pretzel combined with the sweetness of chocolates. Yumss..!
- Explanation on the history of Cadbury & the see no touch display of the varieties of Cadbury products
- The highlight of the tour was the chocolate 'spill' from the purple silo..! 1 ton of chocolates pouring down just like that..!
- and of course, last but not least, the Cadbury shop..! We saw lots of products which we have not seen in Malaysia's market. And a lot of these varieties contained mashmallows..! lots of them. I did asked on the halal-ness of the products & they showed me the Halal cert :-)
It's already 4pm & so the next activity.. checking in to our motel- the Adrian Motel, Dunedin . It's a modern motel, bit pricey but very comfy.
Dinner at KL Aroma for beriyani. Owner of this halal restaurant in the town of Dunedin is not a Malaysian. He's a Sri Lankan. Price for each lamb beriyani & nasi lemak = NZD 14.90. But sekeping roti canai costs RM 2.50 (ok, kena convert to NZD ya. ngee)
And of course, time to replenish our grocery & so we went to our favourite place... Pak n Save..!!
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