Christchurch Review

基督城，新西兰历史最悠久的城市和第3大城市、南岛的最大城市。对于中国游客而言，是久仰大名。她是新西兰南岛旅游的出发地和中转站。乘坐国际航班、或北岛飞来的国内航班，抵达基督城机场后，才能开启新西兰的南岛之行。她是美丽的花园城市，人文景观和自然风光美不胜收。游览大教堂和众多的博物馆、艺术馆、城市广场，典雅的城市景观和深厚的人文历史尽收眼底; 乘坐高空缆车、泛舟雅芳河上，或是漫步植物园和城市花园，英伦情调的大自然风光令人陶醉、流连忘返。

新西兰南岛基督城—-最典型的哥特式建筑风格和设计艺术基督城位于新西兰南岛东岸，又名“花园之城”，人口34万，是新西兰第三大城市，新西兰南岛最大的城市。是仅次于最大城市奥克兰（Auckland）、首都惠灵顿（Wellington）的新西兰第三大城市，也是新西兰除奥克兰以外、来往世界各地的第二大门户人口只有34万，已经在一个国家当中属于第三大的城市，想一想中国各大城市，乡镇都不止这个人口数。唉中国人多

一早从奥克兰坐航班飞往基督城，感觉这个城市一路上绿地无法计数，无论是颇具规模的社区公园，还是住宅小区边小小的街心公园，都洋溢着浓浓的绿意！路边的民宅也是绿草如茵花团锦簇，简直就是花园组成的城市！

Take a bus to the hotel in the city centre for tonight's reservation. It's also a star hotel chain. The red sign and decoration are very eye-catching. The room area is small but the facilities are complete. Although the hotel is on the street, but very quiet, the sun has not yet completely fallen into the horizon, through the clouds or shoot out the afterglow to dye the sky floating clouds red, but at this time in the center of Christchurch on the street is cold. There were no cars, no lights, and only a few strollers. This Christian city, which was settled only in 1850, experienced a rare earthquake in February 2011. Although it has been three years, there are still broken walls and collapsed buildings that have not yet been cleaned up on the streets, and red marking barrels are placed everywhere to block out the construction site. When we put down our baggage, we grab hold of the time before dark and turn to the nearby church square. It is also very empty. The cathedral with some vicissitudes of history still retains the scene of serious local collapse after the earthquake. Although there are fences around it, it is very humanistic to reserve the iron mesh doors from different angles for visitors to take pictures here. There are many tall buildings nearby, some of which are still brightly lit, while most of them seem to be uninhabited. Christchurch, located on the East coast, has a much lower climate than Queen Town. It feels chilly on the road. After breakfast the next day, we took a walk around the nearby Avon River and Cathedral Square, once again gaining a better understanding of the reconstruction of Christchurch after the Great Earthquake. Despite the ruins, the slow pace of reconstruction and criticism, we still see the efforts of the New Zealand people to rebuild their homes. Large-scale cartoon figure paintings are posted on the walls where people go to the empty buildings. Huge model sofas are placed beside the empty sites where ruins have been cleared. New building steel frame supports are uprooted. Buildings that need to be repaired but are not yet taken care of are covered with fences depicting the image of Antarctic penguins. Although there are not many pedestrians in the newly revived urban center, the construction foundation is basically busy. In order to prevent the flying of the ash layer, any operation with the nature of flying dust should cooperate with sprinkling water at the same time. From this tiny detail, we can see the implementation of civilized construction. Maybe many of us have rebuilt the Great Christchurch Earthquake in Wenchuan, China. Compared with the Yushu Earthquake, we can draw the conclusion that "it's almost just a foreign worker" (in the words of a tour guide), but we still see the reason that the rebuilding speed is slow.

基督城是新西兰第三大城市，教堂和教堂广场周围是基督城的著名旅游景点，是来基督城的游客必到之地。整个城市即以这座教堂和教堂广场为中心，城里的建筑各具特色，仿效英格兰风格兴建。

10－11年的数次地震让这个城市创伤甚深，很多人移居惠灵顿或奥克兰。老城区几乎全毁，到处是残垣断壁和清理瓦砾后改建的停车场，人气低迷，晚上市中心跟鬼城一般阴森荒凉，不知道什么时候才能恢复元气