Home of Chocolate

Another long drive had us off to Dunedin, where I was only interested in doing the Cadbury tour. Dunedin is probably the most grey and dreary place I visited in NZ. It’s a uni town, so lots of cheap pubs, but not a whole lot for a tourist to do. The Lonely Planet says that the best things about Dunedin are out of Dunedin.

We went for the short drive out to the Otago Peninsula to see some seals and Penguins. Which was a pretty drive, but a little disappointing. We were too early for one type of penguin and lots of tourists were scaring the other one off, and there were only 2 seals to see. Much less than we saw on the road out of Kaikoura.

The chocolate was worth it, although the tour was a bit crap the samples were generously distributed and the shop supercheap. They had lots of different types of chocolate that I hadn’t seen before. And people were there buying up the whole shop – they couldn’t stack the shelves quickly enough.

Another location and another below par hostel, the manor house hostel had a policy of no keys which makes one feel a little uneasy, and wasn’t really close to anything.