After getting up very early to sneak out of the hostel car-park we had parked in to meet our mates we set off to the rafting centre. We had decided we enjoyed white water rafting so much in Peru that we would go down the highest commercially raftable waterfall in the world - a drop of 7m!! It was also a grade higher than we had done in Peru, it went up to grade V. Slightly nervous and apprehensive we got our wetsuits on and jumped into the van to take us to the...

Yes this place does stink!! I can't believe Sarah was not woken up by the smell as she dutifully slept in the passenger seat leaving me to navigate into the city map-free!! Luckily Rotorua is more of a town than a city!!We arrived here early afternoon and headed straight to the tourist office to find something to do for the afternoon/evening, having already booked a white-water rafting trip for Friday morning. First we headed to Hells Gate which is a big geother...

We made really good process after our caving adventures, probably thanks to a 1kg bag of sweets we brought in the petrol station!! So we ended up driving a lot further on than we had originally hoped so we only had a short 50km drive on a dirt track over the mountains and through the Coromandel forest to get to the other side of the peninsula. After some rain early on by mid morning the sun was out as we stopped at the beautiful Hahei beach and then had a lovel...

We started by getting kitted out - wetsuits, harnesses, etc, Sarah said I looked right at home!We were then lead to a big hole in the ground, 27m deep. I was first to abseil down into the depths below where an underground river was waiting for me! The abseil was great fun and I had nearly as much fun watching Sarah come down after me, she did really well considering she had never done it before, although she did crash into the rock face!We were given a big tyre i...

Hey Guys, We have been cruising round in the rain for a few days, thought we'd let you know where we'd been!! We started by heading south out of Auckland (after a night in a city centre car park!!) to Raglan, a lovely small surfer hippy town apparently Jack Johnson and Ben Harper have places here. It is really famous for a left-hand break that happens on a local beach. We spent the day chilling out right next to the sea, watching surfing and kite surfing and p...