Abel Tasman The journey to Abel Tasman was so long, starting with an early, rough crossing to the South Island followed by a long drive. We had a brand new bus who we ended up staying with for the entire South Island, it was another really nice group of people. We arrived in the dark, lit a fire and all sat under the stars getting to know everyone. The next day I woke up really early and went Kayaking for an entire day. We had an ex-army guy leading us which w...

Wellington Wellington was awesome! We had four days here in the windiest city known to mad, but I really enjoyed it! The first night we all went out with the people from the bus. We had horse racing games in the bar which involved drinking quite a lot, before heading to a Welsh Bar, which we completely took over. There must have been 30 of us sat in the bar, all singing Coldplay clocks along to the piano, played by Phil, then we moved on to various versions of...

Tongariro National Park After a long drive from Taupo we arrived in the middle of the National Park where we hoped to do the Tongariro Crossing, one of the main attractions of the North Island. Unfortunately for us it was cancelled due to snow. However, we did have a really good day! We stopped at these waterfalls where Gollum is filmed eating a fish in LOTR (tawhai falls). Afterwards we went on a walk for 2 hours which was so funny. Naomi, Lois and I all lagg...

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...