We left Waitomo pretty early in the morning and set off on our journey to Rotorua. On the way we stopped off to do a couple of little walks. None of the caves seemed as impressive as the ones we had been in yesterday though! We arrived in Rotorua just after lunch and this place had a very bad smell. It's something to do with the sulphur under the earths surface comes out more because the surface is thinner there I think? Anyway the rotten egg smell was something ...

After an early start we got back on the bus and had a long journey to Waitomo a little town where the bus goes so we can go caving. We booked ourselves to do the Black abyss trip as we were told from everyone we met its amazin, a five hire trip through a limestone cave. After getting into our wetsuits our goupr of nine headed for the caves with our instructors Inga and Matty and first stop was absailing. After a brief practice run we were up and absailing alone ...

We woke up nice and early on my bday (YAY) and left Dom's flat after opening my cards, thanks guys, and headed for Base hostel where we were meeting everyone to join the Kiwi Experience bus. Arriving at the stop we waited a while with everyone and had a quick look at who we would be on the bus with, luckily no weirdos were around and everyone seemed fun! We got on the Kiwi bus and were on our way to the beach, after everything was explained about our trip our bus...

We had a early start for our flight to Auckland and sitting next to a ridiculous, typical American for our 3 hour flight, which was horrendously bumpy, wasn't the best morning of the trip so far! But 3 hours later and we had left the sunny islands of Fiji and landed into New Zealand. We both found it a bit strange being in a city again and seeing cars and high rise buildings. After spending a while in Maccies (free wifi) we headed down to the harbour and lay out ...