After our crazy time in Queenstown we had a chilled out few days before we moved on to Australia. We hopped on the bus and stopped at Wanaka. Wanaka is a beautiful tourist town by a huge lake, which is the main attraction of the area. We dropped our bags off at the hostel then went for a very long walk as far round as our tummies would allow before they demanded food. It was a sunny day, perfect for a stroll along the beach, the place is absolutely stunning. Afte...

Wow, Queenstown is the most amazing, adrenaline filled, party obsessed town we have ever come across! We're pleased to say that we have done a lot of what it has to offer and that we have just had the most action packed few days we could ever have imagined. We were pretty tired when we arrived as we had spent the whole day travelling so we just checked into our hostel and went straight to the kitchen for the 'free dinner' but as soon as we got to the front of the...

The past few days have been spent travelling down from Auckland to the South Island. Our first stop was Napier, a coastal city famous for its wineries and orchards. We stayed with Tony and Sarah on their farm, who welcomed us into their home even though we had never met them before. Both nights we stayed there we enjoyed delicious home cooked meals and even tried new foods like a special kind of artichoke, a small fruit like baby non hairy kiwis and a NZ favourit...

Kia Ora! After fiiiiinally landing in Aucklad at 3am, we were picked up from the airport by the lovely Corinne and Tim. They introduced us to their 4 lively dogs who were looking forward to an early morning walk, so we headed straight out to the west coast of New Zealand, to a beach called Muriwai. The west coast is more rugged than the east coast but still beautiful. We walked along the beach in the early morning sun and then went up into the forest (going sligh...