Our Travel Stories

Author: Shraddha

We drove to Dunedin from Invercargill. Mayuresh was not up for any stops on the way. Antartica and the ship was calling and everything else felt like a distraction. This completed our road trip. We did not get any speeding or traffic violation ticket, some achievement!

In Dunedin (pronounced as duh.nee.dn) we walked around the city center and saw some sights.

We checked in for our cruise and also for a night in Scenic Hotel. We learned that we had only 85 cruisers total in our cruise and many cabins were still empty. We asked about upgrades and got a good deal on the captain’s suite. So we will be cruising in style 😁.

In the morning we went shopping. New Zealand has a special type of Jade (greenstone) and we got some pendants and earrings and of course some obligatory New Zealand T-shirts.

Our cruise had arranged a little tour for us and so off we went on a tour bus. The first stop was at the Unity park and there we got the first view of our ship.

It was a beautiful day in Dunedin and our bus driver told us that such days are Dunner stunners.

We also visited the botanic garden and here are some pictures from the garden.

We still found time for Super Bowl watching at The Cairns, Irish Tavern with local beer and fries. So happy to watch Seahawks win the game!!

And now it was finally time to get on the ship and check out our cabin.

Sorry, these are not the best photos as the angles were awkward.

A few photos as we set sail

Though the Dunedin harbor itself had a very industrial look, it was very pretty as we cruised through the peninsula.

We also saw many royal albatrosses. Didn’t have the zoom lens handy, so this is the best we got.