We stayed at seven different places and visited sites from there. On the traveling days, we drove between 2 and 8 hours. On the non-traveling days, we drove maximum one and a half hour one-way to the sight we wanted to visit and returned to our hostel or cabin in the afternoon.
We did not rent a campervan but a regular family car. We rented it in Auckland at the airport, dropped it off at Wellington airport, took a flight from Wellington to Nelson, got another car in Nelson and dropped it off again at Queenstown airport. This was all arranged with Avis before the trip.
Picknick area at Lake Waihola (on the route from Oamaru to Te Anau)
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