Westport! The most pointless stop on the kiwi bus, we were going to use this stop as a chill out and we were only staying one night and apparently it had a kitchen that Jamie Oliver would love!! So we were looking forward to it because out of all the places we've been the one thing we like in a hostel is a nice clean kitchen, the general rule is if it has a good kitchen the overall standard is good. However upon arrival we checked in and our eagerness was puni...

Hello everyone, The ferry that was taking us over to the south island was huge, it had two cinema rooms but all we wanted to do was sleep because it was still early morning so we found the quiet room that had reclining chairs and we all collapsed in there for the 3 hours it took to cross over to the south island. Me and Hayley had woke only to here a sleeping Louise shout out "STOP IT" at the top of her voice we looked at each other and burst out lau...

Hello, We left river valley with apparently karma hot on our heels, and it was about to get worse. On the way to wellington we passed through a place called Bulls which was a little town that had incorporated the word bull into nearly every shop for example, the police station was called the CONSTA-BULLstation and an antique shop called COLLECTA-BULL, you get the idea. Anyway this little town had the best fish and chip shop ever and it was so cheap, we got fish ...

Hey people, We left the adventure capital of the north island behind and headed for a small isolated place called river valley which was a cosy hostel situated right on the river bank. This hostel was excellent we had a room all to ourselves and they did home cooked cakes, it reminded me of a log cabin that you would use in the mountains; skiing. It seemed very coincidental that this place had a spa and it just so happens that everybody was aching off that mam...

Hi everyone, After the joys of caving we headed to our next destination which was Taupo the sky diving capital of the world. We got up that morning after having a great night's sleep from an exhausting 5 hours in the caves and boarded the bus. It was the day to decide if we were skydiving or not, the day had came around so quick, i thought i had more time. Louise was already set in stone, she was doing it for tyke!! It came to the point where the clip board g...