today we went black water rafting which is kinda like tubing underground. it was sooo cold we thought our fingers and toes were gna fall off. it was all worth it though as we got to see lots of glow worms and had a really fun time rafting down the caves. we were around 70m underground at one point! after we had a yummy bagal and soup to warm us up before heading back. we had a dominoes pizza to celebrate before heading off to the themal pools where we relaxed in...

today we travellewd from taupo to rottonrua as the locals call it as it smells of eggs (sulpher) we got to see some boiling mud pools before jumping off and exploring the lovely city that smellys yucky. we also went for a quick intro to maori food and history and beki won a necklace thanks to steve telling her the answer. as it was raining we just chilled before going to a cultural evening. we got to see maoris perform the welcoming ceremony to decide if we com...

after a lie in for a change we ventured out to the local waterfall walk. after passing through thermal pools, which we didnt go in, we hiked for 3km to reach the waterfall. it was really cool, see photos, the water was so fast! as it was tipping down with rain we got soaked on the way back humph...we arrived back at our hostel to find loads of peeps off our original bus which was cool. as we were kanckered n not feeling great we had an early night

today we were booked in for our skydive. an early start as we were going to be picked up at 7.30am! unfortunalty it was cancelled boohoo. so we hung around all day and rebooked for 3pm. a few other times were cancelled and the clouds looked omnious. but at 3pm the bus arrived and picked us...eeek here we go. we arrived after a few mins and hopped out. got our suits on watched a 30sec safety vid and then away we went. we went into the plane and took off really qui...

after anotherlong jounrney we arrived in Taupo at 2ish n headed immediately to the skydive place. the weather wasnt to good so it was cancelled. on the night we had a few drinks with the remainder of our group from Wesport/Queenstown because most of them were leaving the next day. steve entered and won a killer pool comp, get in! he won a free t-shirt lol. as we had an early start next day for our rescheduled skydive we all went to bed pretty early but it was a g...