WELLINGTON....THE BEST CITY EVER?? POTENTIAL.NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND One of my favourite cities ever! Its such a beautiful place. It has everything you need in a city and yet doesn't feel like a city at all. A "mountain" to climb, shopping centres, bars, heaps of cool places to eat, a brilliant free museum, water front and an awesome play park! (No really...you have to check it out!! Cuba street - full of cafes, bars and shops. A really cool street with great...

TAWHAI / GOLLUM'S WATERFALL (THE FORBIDDEN POOL), LORD OF THE RINGS TONGARARIO NATIONAL PARK - NEW ZEALAND Because at the time we didn't get to do Tongarario Ccrossing as the weather was too severe we decided to trek to another place nea...r the famous Mount Doom. The scenery surrounding was amazing mountains covered in snow, lakes, waterfalls and forest. Standard New Zealand. This hike was a nice easy little hike but gave a small taster into the scenery yo...

SKYDIVE TAUPO TAUPO, NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND So being scared of flying, a Skydive was never on my "must do" list. But for some reason I thought I would give it a go. :/ Watching the Promotion DVD at the beginning (basically just telling us what pic/video combos we can have)...I cried. A crying sweaty mess!! The guys at Taupo Skydive are amazing. They made it clear that I was nervous and within 10 mins they had me laughing and forgetting about it. So good!! Rea...

ROTORURA , NORTH ISLAND NEW ZEALANDKAITIAKE ADVENTURE - WHITE WATER RAFTING So, after a pretty heavy night of getting drunk pirate style at the Lava bar next to Base Hostel, we got up pretty early to get wet and wild! Slightly hungover/...a little drunk still we got picked up from the hostel and went to base camp to get the briefing of the days adverture... A quick and simple safety and instruction guide and we jumped on our raft and started the decent down th...

LUGING ROTORURA - NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND. Are you getting old and don't like it? Do you feel your inner Ricky Bobby coming out and you want to go fast. Then you HAVE to go luging in Roturura. In fact, even if you don't feel like that... - you HAVE to go Luging in Rotorura. For just $45 (when brought through Base Hostel) which include your Gondola (Skycar thing) ride up to the top then 5 Luges down (trust me - one is not enough!) - this for me is definite...