Hello! We arrived into Wellington on Dylan's bus and spent two nights there. We met the new people off the next bus we were going to be on the way up North Island and had drinks with them and said goodbye to Dylan- the best Kiwi driver! In Wellington we sent the day at Te Papa museum, celebrating all that is NZ and Maori. Wellington definitely lived up to the nickname windy Welly! The next day we headed to Taupo, again stopping off in a tiny township called Bul...

As we reached the outskirts of Queenstown we stopped off at the Kawarau bridge where we watched a dvd about the history of bungy jumping and watched a few people jump off the bridge which was the first commercial bungy site in the world. After this there was just time for a group photo of the bus before some brave/stupid individuals headed off to the Nevis bungy, all 134m of it! That night was party time as lots of our bus tried their hands (mostly with disastero...

After a three hour ferry ride across the Cook Straight and through the Marlborough Sounds our intrepid Kiwi adventurers arrived in Picton. As soon as we collected our bags it was back on the bus to head through the Marlborough region to Nelson. On the way there was time for a quick stop at one of the vineyards that the region is famous for. We sampled some of the fine produce and picked up a couple of bottles to take with us on our journey. We arrived in Nelson i...

We arrived at the bus stop early in the morning on the 14th of July all ready for a trip north to the Bay of Islands. After boarding the bus it soon became clear that the Kiwi Experience office had booked us onto the wrong bus and we were, in fact, heading south to Whitianga in Mercury Bay. After quickly consulting lonely planet we worked out what we would be doing that day and were able to relax after all. A quick stop at Mt Eden gave us some more cool views of ...

We arrived in Auckland at around 10am after nearly 24 hours travelling from Santiago, via Buenos Aries where ours was just about the only early morning flight that wasn't subject to a massive delay. Unfortunately our very untraveller-like 5* hotel room wasn't quite ready so we had a few hours to explore the city centre which was almost like being at home after so long in central and South America. After an evening of recharging our batteries the next day was tim...