Hey everyone! After leaving Lake Mahinapua we drove to Franz Josef. It was a long drive and on the way i started to feel very ill, sore throat headache the works! Everyone on our bus has either been ill or is ill! I had pre booked a full day hiking on the Franz Josef Glacier for the day after we got there but we arrived at 5pm on the 9th and i went straight to sleep and i never woke up until 10.30 the next morning, man i was feeling rough. So i didnt go on my G...

Hiya, so after leaving Westport we headed to Lake Mahinapua to stay with Les at the Lake Mahinapua hotel and have a fancy dress party. The theme for the fancy dress was what you want to be when you grow up! On our way to Les' we stopped and did a walk around what are known as the pancake rock, Limestone rocks that have been battered by the see and now look like pancakes. Next we stopped at Greymouth and had 1 hour to find ourselves a fancy dress outfit. Then...

Hi, after leaving Nelson we had a few hours drive to a place called Buller adventure tours, just before Westport. There was the opportunity of horse riding, quad biking and jet boating. So we went jet boating, it was really cool! I have some before and after shot in the Westport photo album but could take any while we were on the boat as my camera would have got wet! We were soaked through, the boat was doing 360 turns, squeezing through tiny gaps in rock, the dr...

Hey every one, we have spent 2 days in Nelson. Its a lovely place! We are staying in a posh backpackers called Fern Lodge, its lovely! We spent the day on the beach yesterday and did all of our washing, Luxury! Today we have been walking around the Abel Tasman National park. The kiwi bus was offering guided walks or kaiak trips but we decided to save some money, we just booked a local bus and took a picnic and went walking for the day by ourselves! It was really ...

What an amazing day. We left Christchurch at 7.30 this morning and drove along a beautiful coastline for about 3 hours until we arrived at Kaikoura (we passed some penguins, they were dead cute!). Our driver took us to a cool spot where you could see gorgeous views right around the peninsula! We checked in at our hostel, its called Topspot, its really nice but not many showers, that should be fun first thing in the morning when a coach load of people are trying t...