Bookings open for public tours of Christchurch's red zone
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The tours will allow people to see the earthquake damage closeup for the first time since the earthquake struck in February.
The tours will allow people to see the earthquake damage closeup for the first time since the earthquake struck in February.
Public bus tours of Christchurch's red zone will start off with a warning that the passengers could be trapped by an earthquake and may not make it out alive.
Since the Christchurch earthquakes propelled Paul Fleming from his Chancery Lane shop in central Christchurch, he has begun a business called 'Happy Tours' featuring an immaculate Austin Seven called Myrtle. Myrtle takes Spectrum's Deborah Nation into Christchurch's central city Red Zone. Christchurch poet Helen Jacobs also tours in Myrtle.
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