Queenstown is a small but bustling town, built up around the vast Lake Wakatipu with the beautiful snow capped Remarkable's as a backdrop it truly is picture perfect especially when the sky is colourfully painted by the setting sun. We arrived at the end of the skiing season with many people still lugging their gear up and down the gondola's for the last dredges of snow. However, Queenstown has lots more to offer than just the snow. The birth place of the bungy...

We stopped and stayed two nights at Lake Tekapo, if you like your places to be remote, star-full, stunningly scenic, warm, naturally colourful, full of friendly locals, shops that shut by dusk, this place is for you! Lake Tekapo houses one of the world's largest starlight reserves, it has a classification that puts it in the only four in the world to have the darkest known skies known to man. Mt John observatory has telescopes that can scan up to 50 million st...

Kia Ora New Zealand (or Aotearoa as it is known by its maori name) sits on the boundary of two tectonic plates but we weren't thinking of that when we added it to near the top of our list all those months ago. We were thinking more about the glorious mountain ranges, sublime lakes, vast national parks that cover a third of the country, world class trekking and the very friendly New Zealanders. However, the recent history of Christchurch, our first destination...

Bula (hello). So we managed to lose a whole day as soon as we boarded our Fiji bound flight due to time zone differences. But we made it to 'basic but everything you need, beautiful Fiji', with its 333 islands, who'd have known! The main island is a mix of South East Indians, invited in the late 1800's to farm sugar cane, and of course the smiley natives. We really kicked off our shoes here, stopped and did practically nothing... So lets start with the 'basic ...

We were told 8 days would be enough to see at least two of the main Hawaiian islands but we discovered that it wasn't even enough to see one, so we'll just have to come back... and boy are we excited at the prospect! Hawaii was at the top of K's list when we were planning our trip... Reading about the beautiful diverse islands, listening to friends speak about their experiences and watching way too much Hawaii 5.0 meant that K's expectations were high... very...