New Zealand's garden city, rebuilt in public. The 2011 earthquake is still visible and so is the architecture that answered it, between the parks, the punts and the murals.
The rebuilt city's living room: coffee, bao, butcheries and a rooftop bar.
Free
Container-city street art crawl
The rebuild made walls into galleries. Start at the SALT district.
Free
Botanic Gardens & Hagley Park
Thirty hectares inside a loop of the Avon, free and open every day.
Where to stay
from $52
Drifter Christchurch
Dorm bed · per night
from $72
Urbanz Christchurch
Private room · per night
from $53
Hotel Give
Dorm bed · per night · Hotel Give is centrally located next to the Christchurch Botanic Gardens and has a wide range of accommodation options to suit all budgets and needs.
from $163
Around The World Backpackers
Private room · per night · Four-bed dorms, double, & twin rooms.
Trips that take it in
Australia & NZ · 13 days · 3 nights in Christchurch