I know I have pretty much said this about everywhere is New Zealand, but Franz Josef is just such a fantastic place.Its where I was lucky enough to do my skydive and the full day glacier hike on The Fox Glacier here!Skydive - the skydive in Franz Josef is said to be the most spectacular in New Zealand, and although I have nothing to compare it with, I think they might be right!The jump I did was 12,000ft (the plane here is too small to carry oxygen masks so this ...

The Poo Pub night is a long running tradition in The Kiwi Experience, and is another night I had been really looking forward to.Its all about this guy Les, who is 83 and has been running these nights every night for the past 18 years.The pub is within the Lake Mahinapau Hotel (pronounced Maa-he-naa-poo-a, which is where the poo pub name comes from).Everyday a bus load (or is our case, two bus loads) of Kiwi people are told their party theme (our theme was 'P') an...

We stayed for a few nights in the random little town of Nelson, which didn't really have much going for it, other than it was an hours drive from the beautiful Abel Tasmin National Park.Charlie, Kelly, Chin, James and I all decided the branch out on our own abit, and hire a car fro two days to go to the national park.James and I were entrusted to go and pick the car up, and came back with beasty 4x4 jeep in British Racing Green.There was absolutely no need for th...

Our next destination was the beautiful Taupo, which has the biggest lake in New Zealand - its so big that you can fit the whole of Singapore in it.I was also told that if one person stood at one end and held a piece of string, and another person stood at the other end holding the other end, that the string would touch the bottom due to it bending around the world.However, Nia told me this, so I'm not sure her facts can be trusted - I like it though!The main thing...

Waitomo was our next destination, but on our way to this magical place, we had quite possibly the oddest stop off on the whole journey.We went to a place where they breed Angora rabbits, which are basically the biggest balls of fluff I have ever seen.You don't even get slightly prepared for what is coming next, and go into this kinda little shop, where two older women welcome you and introduce you to one of the rabbits.Our rabbit only had one ear, which confused ...