I am getting a bit sick of the internet situation here in New Zealand. None of the hostels with Kiwi Explorer have free Wi-Fi (something that has been standard throughout my trip so far). It is kinda cool to live without internet. Everything is taken care of by the Kiwi Explorer Driver: hostels, activities, shopping trips. But since you are disconnected from the internet you have also no other choice. I already realized in Christchurch that the Kiwi Experience hostels have worse ratings than other hostels nearby (with same prices). But without internet access you have no choice but following the Kiwi Explorer path.
Around noon, our driver would bring us to Greymouth, the biggest city at the west coast (with around 9800 inhabitants). If you live here, you are really in the capital of nowhere. But since there is no other city in the whole area, they should have SIM cards for mobile internet. So I tried my luck.
It took me 1,5 hours and 3 shops before I gave up. There was a Vodafone shop that was supposed to sell sim cards, but they were all expired. Another shop had only cards that wouldn't´t work in my phone (a standard Samsung galaxy 4! or they were super expensive in comparison to the others. So I postponed my plans and started getting stuff for tonight's costume party.
The location of tonight´s hostel at Lake Mahinapua is beautiful but nobody would ever come here. It probably lives from these daily Kiwi costume parties (50$ each inclusive dinner and breakfast). They even had their own workshop to work on your costumes. Our Theme was “bad taste”. But not as I know it as “bad taste in dressing” but “politically incorrect”. So we had a Malaysian Airline, ISIS, Donald Trump and KuKluxClan.
I was a bit too lazy to spend that much time on a costume, so I went as
“NO BRAIN – NO PAIN, Zika virus promotion team New Zealand”
sponsored by Umbrella corp.
I know its not that easy to get, but the whole thing was about the drinking anyways :D
night of Tuesday 19, 2016
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