Christchurch is the first station we touched down. It's the second largest city in New Zealand. Also, the only city that allows you ski at a world-class alpine resort, play golf, bungy jump, raft, mountain bike, hot-air balloon, wind surf, whale watch and visit internationally-acclaimed wineries and gardens within two hours of an international airport according to Christchurch.org.nz.
While waiting for our seasonal work to be started, we have paid a visit by walking around the city. We were attracted by this garden city that surrounding by exotic and indigenous plants.
Pride of place in this flower-loving town goes to the Botanic Gardens, attractively set within a loop of the winding Avon River. As you can see, lovely ducks and geese enjoying flow along the river.
Surprisingly, their city sightseeing open-top bus is same as the London red double-decker bus. The bus tour takes you to all of Christchurch’s famous landmarks and reveals Christchuch’s colourful history.
Restart is an outdoor retail space that made from shipping containers as temporary buildings in the Christchurch's city center after the powerful natural disaster with 6.3 magnitude earthquake on Feb 2011 at the center city and some suburbs of Christchurch.
It's hard not to gawk in awe at the destruction and demolition. As you can see from the photo we took during our tour, there are still some buildings lie in ruin, empty. Some already-cleared blocks are used as car park. Some buildings that are being held up by the steel reinforcement. Some bumpy roads were jolted out of their usual position.
Despite the fact that the center city of Christchurch is still remains in the 'red zone' and rebuilding, we had a wonderful time in Christchurch, it is a beautiful city with very friendly people.
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