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...

Auckland I arrived in Auckland really late in the evening and went straight to the hostel which was miles away! It had been such a long day, because unknown to me when I checked in in Cairns to get to Sydney I was not going to be allowed to get all the way to New Zealand without written proof to when I was leaving the country! What a nightmare! I had to check in twice find the airline I was travelling with back to Oz and get written proof off them before heading...

Cape Tribulation Despite the weather I had a really good time in Cape Trib. The rainforest is absolutely amazing and the trees are like giants! On our way there we visited this habitat centre and got to see yet more Koala's and kangaroos, I even saw some with little Joey's poping their heads out their mothers pouches, it was so weird, they looked like aliens! We also went to some really cool look-out points and walked to a huge gorge. It rained but it was really...