Wow!!!! got to Taupo and it is the most beautiful place i have seen yet! I realy really like it here and want to come back already! scary thing is that the old volcano here isnt extinct and they think it is due an eruption in the next couple hundred years and the last time it erupted it wiped out the whole north island! a time beofre that it erupted and blasted 800cu km of ash ect into the sky completely killing everything in the north island! (no one lioved...

HI still in the sulpher city! god the smell when i woke up this morning!! it took a while to adjust!! Hired a bike today and did just over a 30k round trip! it was great getting away from the town. My legs are killing me though!! it was up hill almost the entire way!! at one point the up hill lasted approx 4km!!!! 4km!!!!!!!! i had to get off and push eventually. The cyle (which i did myself) took my up and out of rotorua and towards sonme of the volcanic l...

i went and saw this geyser today!!! i am now in rotoura (think that is how you spell it). its nicknamed sulpher city and it really smells liek it but you get used to it after a while! got here this afternoon bus dropped me right outside the hostel practicaly so not much walked wiht gaint back pack!! (it was hurting my back when i had to run for the bus in auckland...up a hill!! there is one thing a backpacker should never do and that is run with a backpack on, it...

Got to taurnaga at about 130pm today. hostel is nice! staff are a bit mad though! this place seems like a holiday resort for people from new zealand. reminds me of spain! not really my thing. All good activites leave far too early in the morning so decided to go the beach instead. had to stay covered up though cause a little burnt. wandered around tauranga for a while then decided to walk to beach which is called the mount and its over the bridge!! well i should ...

My feet are so sore i must ahve walked about 25k today!!! walked all the way from the city centre to mount eden which is an extinct volcano in auckland. there are tons of old volcanoes around and from up there you can see tons of them. Whats makes this one special is that is still has its cone!! it was cool, a 50m drop into the centre of the cone! viwes of auckland were amazing from up there too! I then walked back to hostel and had to clean my legs as all the du...