DAY 6 - ROTORUA another day, another hangover and another fairly early start as we drive by lake rotorua on our way to a traditional maori village. The whakarewarewa maori village is situated on a thermal reserve. we spend the day walking round their village seeing how they bath in the natural springs, cook their food from the steam emitted from the earths crust and we go look at the geyser, that never erupted while we were there. we also learn about...

DAY 5 - the road to rotorua I am late for the coach, another night of very little sleep. i do get a cheer as i make it onto the coach though. i am feeling a tad hungover, which is nice. we have a new tour guide mandy who has taken over from chrissy. we do some more intro's and embarrassing stories on the way. we head south an stop for a welcome break in huntly on the banks of the waikato river. a small dodgy looking town with a big coal power station w...