He is reciting a blessing of sort, lack of a better word. It’s difficult to translate because it uses phrases and words that hold double/multiple/hidden meaning, and would require years of tutelage to fully understand. A direct translation would serve it no justice. So a blessing will suffice😊

Thankyou for compiling these videos...don't want to be insenstive, but thank god we lost the green BNZ building on the cnr of Colombo and Hereford - it was pulled down well after the shakes.

Beautiful sentiment in honouring the wonder of those trees ❤

‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’

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I will never stop missing my beautiful city as it was before😭😭.....but for any non Cantabs ...it is still and will always be The Garden City❤️ Edit: perfect choice with Dire Straits there....I'm so emotional!!!!

I wonder how many of these buildings are now gone. I wonder also if anyone seen in these shots was killed in 2011.

Updates on this year's situation in Christchurch can be seen on googlemaps

Very good. I was in NZ in 1997 with a brand new digital video camera, filming everything that moved (as you did), and I went up the Cathedral tower whilst my wife sat in the square. I’ve searched all my footage but can’t find any from up the tower, and I’m sure I would have filmed it. Can’t find any. So I’m very grateful you managed to preserve it 😮

It would be great if you could do an update on this video as there has been so much change, much of it positive.

Great to have this record of the pre-earthquake city. Was really vibrant back in the day. Gone forever unfortunately :( Bit of bad timing with the much bigger, more devastating Japan EQ though 2.5 weeks later. As after that it pretty much disappeared off the International news cycle.

Around 3:10 they're playing Ne me quitte pas!

Would be fantastic to overlay the current progress in the city

It would be good to show the progress made in the last 8 years.

At about 3:40 that's me in the stripped shirt 😂😅

That was hard to watch. I went back recently and its nice to see it slowly coming alive again esp along Oxford Terrace. Long live Christchurch

Nice.....i was there 1 year....2007-2008.....terug naar Terschelling

Check ook mijn video van Terschelling vanuit de lucht.... Geeft een nog gaver effect dan dan vanaf de grond 😁😁🌊🌊

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it's been 9 years now. any chance of a where is chch now. kiwis are very resilient

Mi canción favorita de la hermosa señora Irene 💜 La extraño tanto

Thanks for sharing. We are blessed with many beautiful bird species across Australia.

Me encantan sus canciones Sra yrene Linda voz y toca muy lindo vendiciones

Did your enjoy your time

Chris tch hurch 2009 &2013 Darren Donn-walker Dad

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This video shows how the once vibrant and lively city center has died at the hands of the bureaucracy. Govt control has held back the progress in the CBD so much that most bussiness has moved away to the outter city.

Hermosos los videos

Excellent video, you show the life and happiness, vibrancy of 2009 and now the somnabulistic death throes of 2013. Although its changing now, most of the fences are gone and new buildings are going up. The Cathedral should be sorted out in a few months.

new plymouth rocks hard.sticky filth,,toxic avengers,,the whitehart hotel,,best surf in n.z,,gr8 ski ing up mountain..what an epic place..nakiboy//warea rd//

Unfortunately, John Key, the prime minister, has sold New Zealand out to the new world order and aligned us with mad man Obama...so now we have a daily spraying into our once pristine skies of toxic chemicals including Aluminium Nano particles, Strontium, Barium, and other I don't know about yet.....and the reason I don't know about them is because of the total denial and secrecy that surrounds this spraying program. The thousands of videos on KZbin , from all over New Zealand, support my claims.....just search for Chemtrails or Geoengineering in New Zealand....our misleading government cannot hide the truth, they just deny it exists.....But mother nature doesn't make clouds like these.....and you won't find them in any books either......so New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada, and Britain , the 5 EYE countries are now all subject to this daily toxic spraying.....New Zealand is no longer clean and green , thanks to our

Brilliant !!!

The best place in NZ. You filmed part of the translator track, I helped put the first TV repeater up on that mountain. Just magic

!New Plymouth is AWESOME!

Awsome video footage Love it.

This video made me homesick. Getting drunk on the hatchery lawn with the bro's while the bands would play during festival of lights... The vibe in town... The people... Window washing and getting shit faced... Being young, wild and free in general... Irreplaceable times

I didn't know that date. Accidently August 25 is my birthday.

Muy bueno el video👍

any maori

Thanks for sharing. I haven't seen Christchurch in person, since before the 2011 quake. So sad!

Very nice video, well shot and edited.

Cheater! It's a sunset played backward! Nevertheless quite interesting to see/sea..

3m37: The camera and the plane shake, due to the lowering of the landig gear.

My favourite CBD would be a garden. So rebuild the garden if you please, but not the buildings. Turn CHCH into a genuine Garden-city. And get rid off the tarmac. Love. W.

Beautiful footage - just love the sunrises in Kaikoura :)

looks at the white hart! it's not falling anymore! omg!

Only rebuild if Jesus is on our side or no point

New Plymouth rox

It surely was an amazing surprise!

twas a great setting and a great gig