1. Activities. Intro:
Christchurch is the largest city in the South
Zoo,arts and crafts, bird watching, boat Island, with a population of over 350,000. The C H R I S T C H U RC H
cruises, booking services, bungy Garden City is also, arguably, the most attractive
city in New Zealand, with extensive inner city
jumping, climbing, dolphins, farms, public gardens and parks, the shallow Avon river
fishing, gardens, golf, heli skiing, meandering though the city centre, and a
heritage, horse treks, hunting, hot air pedestrian oriented downtown center’d on
Cathedral Square.
ballooning, jet boating.
Christchurch was a planned settlement founded
by English colonialists. This rich English history is
still apparent in the city's atmosphere; historic
trams loop around the city, you can punt down
the Avon, and the city is scattered with
impressive Neo-Gothic buildings.
Christchurch enjoys the largest collection of
Gothic architecture in the country, with
Christchurch Cathedral, the Canterbury Museum,
Jobs Christ's College School, and the former University
of Canterbury, which now forms the bustling Cities/town
restaurant staff, hotel services, motel cultural centre of Christchurch, the Arts Centre.
services, backpackers services, horse Christchurch is also a city which embraces
Cheviot, Culverden,
training, Architect, Teaching, festivity, with a continuous stream of events and Scargill, Waipara,
festivals throughout the year, including the
building, bricklayer Christchurch Arts Festival, New Zealand Cup and Leithfield, Balcairn,
Show Week, the World Buskers Festival, the
Lyttelton Festival of Lights, the Ellerslie Rangiora, Fernside,
International Flower Show and the Antarctic
Festival - each celebrating particular aspects of
Kaiapoi, Dommett, Ohoka,
Useful websites. Christchurch's unique character. Oxford.
Christchurch contains one of the two main
international airports for the country, and is
New Zealand Tourism Guide : New Zealand connected via a tunnel to a seaport at Lyttelton
on Bank's Peninsula. It is widely regarded as the
Travel Guide ...Christchurch City LibrariesWhat Gateway to the South Island and is the perfect
place to base your New Zealand holiday.
to Do in Christchurch and Canterbury New
Zealand

2. Special events
C H R I S T C H U RC H
Ellerslie international flower show
19 March 2011, Lake Tekapo high
country art exhibition,Women’s
water polo world cup, poker
championship 2010, Methven-mt
Hutt spring festival, Christchurch
Art gallery-Ron Mueck Exhibition
14 May 2011, Culverden
Christmas Country Fete.
Tours
Accommodation
Backpackers: phone 033798429, bed 5 Day South Island Tour from
and breakfast phone 033656569, Christchurch 1,077$, Kaikoura whale
farm stay phone 033425827 holiday watch day tour from Christchurch
homes phone 03322896, holiday 195$, Explore Mt Cook from
parks phone 033485690, lodges Christchurch 212$, 4 day great South
phone 033478658, motels phone
Island circle tour from Christchurch
033296333, hotel phone 033678666,
home stay phone 033820776. 986$, hot air ballooning over
Canterbury plains 241$, swim with
dolphins tour 152.54$