Learning about New Zealand

Important job for the day was applying for our Indian visas, which involved handing our passports over to a preoccupied receptionist along with cash and an envelope. All going well we’ll see them again in a couple of weeks, or we might be staying here a bit longer than intended!
Top Wellington attraction in our guide books was Te Papa, the relatively new museum on the waterfront. But this is no ordinary museum, you get the chance to be shaken in an earth quake, jump on stuff, touch lots of screens, wind things up, and feel how heavy rocks from the centre of the earth are. Essentially what all museums should be like, and we left there knowing a lot more about New Zealand, its geology, wildlife, Maori and immigrants.
After that lot we were museumed out, and our legs didn’t fancy seeing more sights, so we hit the road again. We spent the twilight hours in search of the poorly/not signposted DoC campsite, and in true DoC style it was just a field with a toilet. The heavens opened as we pulled up, so to be on the safe side we parked on the road, just so we don’t get washed away in the middle of the night.