This is it. My final entry. Im quite sad :( I will of course be happy to be home, too! But this has been the most awesome trip ever, the most amazing journey, and I know I am incredibly blessed to have experienced what I have, and to have met so many beautiful people. I stopped off in LA after Fiji, for one and half days. Stayed on Venice Beach, an artisitic/boho area, kind of like Camden but 10 times bigger! It's a bit mad and full of funny characters lik...

Time is passing way too quick! I'm now in stunning Fiji, chilling out and savouring every minute under the sun! It's cool being here after Australia and New Zealand for so long: more of a culture difference...I was riding in a minivan the other day and felt like I was back in South Africa, then yesterday having lunch in town it felt like I was in Singapore or something! I arrived late Tuesday night to this new and foreign land with nothing except advice to g...

Its quite funny: as I was writing the last lines of my previous entry I really believed I had left everyone I had met so far behind...that from then on it would be new faces all the way. I went downstairs and bumped into two old friends, who had arrived early in Christchurch! Brilliant! And met a few more familiar faces journeying back up north, to Auckland to make my way out the country. It never feels lonely on the Kiwi bus! New Zealand has been awesome. ...

Hiking Franz Josef glacier was amazing - definitly one of the 'wow' moments of my trip so far! Its the world's steepest and fastest flowing commercially guided glacier, with the most incredible views all the way up. Once we got kitted up in special clothes to look like clones for the day (!) we made our way out there, first having to trek through rainforest which was so humid and uncomfortable! So worth it, but strange heading from those conditions to ice up ...

Time has passed so quickly. A lot of our bus have gone their separate ways now, either moving on faster, slowing down, or travelling up back north. Kind of weird but so nice when you bump into 'old' friends at a hostel somewhere along the route - such a nice surprise! We said many goodbyes on our first night in Wellington, having pool and games competitions in the bar in our hostel. The next day I visited Te Papa Museum, where I learnt more about Maori cultur...