Te Puke, so called the Kiwi fruit capital of the world. A place for majority of working holiday worker looking for their kiwi fruit job. Same to us. We're heading to Te puke after our van done with the mechanical service.
We supposed to stay at a backpackers called The Lodge, but we were fooled by the owner. The owner, Henry (a maori) said we not follow his instruction due to our late check in. Yet we already informed him twice before that.
On the first night in Te Puke, we're forced to over night in our van. As the rest of backpackers had been fully booked. The night was cool, luckily we had bought our sleeping bag although it very expensive (NZ $350 after 50% discount, lol). Else the night will be frozen up. Not every place in NZ are allowed to parking for overnight. We're being drove away few times due to over night at the wrong place. The night was tough.
Next morning, 4 of us went for seeking packhouse job with our panda eyes. Thanks god, as we got our job from the first kiwi packhouse we visited. Sue & Jia as grader, liew & me as packer.
The first week in Te Puke, we stayed at Kiwi Coral which takes about 5-10 minutes walking to our packhouse. $120 per week. On the first day in Kiwi Coral, we felt we're alien, as we're the only Asian over there. The rest are all black skin people, majority from Fiji and Australia. We stayed a week in the tiny and cool cabin. I will never forget how cold at night when walking to toilet from our cabin. Besides, we can feel the cabin shaking while train passing by that area.
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| #01 Show you how squeeze of our cabin |
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| #02 The van fulled with luggage |
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| #03 Exterior of Kiwi Coral |
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| #04 The cabin with me |
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| #05 Sometime the grass will get frozen in early morning |
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| #06 Kiwi Coral consider quite clean in toilet |
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| #07 This is the interesting part, i bet u never seen it before. Kiwi coral set a time limit for shower, they will provide you a coin per day for a shower. Water will spray out only 4 minutes after you insert the coin. |
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| #08 Huge kitchen |
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| #09 Cabin interior |
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| #10 Exterior of our cabin |
We moved to a homestay after Kiwi Coral.
Bye Kiwi Coral!
