Taupo Taupo was literally the place I had been dreading, just because I knew I had to conquer my fear and jump out of a plane! I had been worrying about this for so long even during my time in Oz as originally I was suppose to do it at Mission Beach. I can honestly say I don't know why I was so worried. My sky dive is and will always be one of the one most exciting, memorable things I have ever done! I am just so glad I jumped from 15,000 feet, 12,000 would have...

Rotorua We left Maketu really early after all having breakfast together and headed to Rotorua. It was quite sad really because some of us were staying behind longer and so the bus would be moving on without us. Some of the group stopped in Rotorua to do white water rafting which apparently was amazing, but saving my money for the south Island and doing tings I haven't already done, I decided to check out the thermal pools. Me and Kay walked around the city and f...

Waitomo Caves On the way to Maketu, we stopped off at Waitomo to do some caving. It was so cool. Some people in the group didn't want to get wet so they chose the abseiling option but I decided to embrace the cold water and went black-water rafting. This isn't the same as white-water rafting beause it is not as extreme. Instead, we hiked through these caves which at times was realy scary because they were very tight in places, and really not suitable for those w...

Raglan Raglan was a really cool place. It is known as one of the best surfing spots in the world, and after spending one minute spent on the beach you can see why. The waves were awesome! It was a really chilled out sort of upmarket hippie town. The hostel was in the middle of the bush and was really nice! Although it was expensive and also too cold to surf, we still had a really nice day looking round the town and checking out the beach. In the evening we all ...

Cathedrale Cove I got up really early in Auckland and was picked up by the Stray Bus around 8am. I was so excited to get on the road and start meeting some new people. WE headed upto Mount Eden in Auckland which looked out on the entire city and all the active volcanoes, which was really cool. After Auckland we made our way to Hahei and where we were going to see Cathedrale Cove. Some of the group went kayaking an the rest of us went on the hike. There was a rea...