Episode 5: The hills are alive...

"Ooooooh Heaven is a place on earth..."

I had to force myself to stop taking pictures of the surreally beautiful countryside, because there's no way my camera could do it justice. The trip involved a lot of driving, which I thought might get tiresome, but turned out to be the highlight-- definitely the best way to see New Zealand. We constantly had to pull over to gawk at the hills, lakes, rivers, forests, and ravines so that we didn't drive right into them. The roads were incredibly twisty, and there was a tendency to get stuck behind annoying camper vans, but the weather was perfect, the speed limit was 100kph, and we had snacks. Could it get any better than this?