We checked out and went and got the ferry to Wahike to try and find Amy and Luke, friends we met in Burgess Hill who have just moved back to live here. We hadn't been able to get their contact details but had been told Whike we quite small so thought it would be nice to find them if we could and if not Wahike is supposed to be beautiful anyway.When we arrived we decided to hire a car. We set off and stopped at the information centre to look at the phone book....

Woke up to gorgeous sunshine so I went down to the beach. Unfortunately I feel asleep and burnt my back!!! That evening we went to the hostel bar for a few drinks and Karen Stovell from Burgess Hill walked in. How random, she wasn't even staying at our hostel!! Had a really good night catching up with her and having afew drinks and dance at Salty's. We behaved ourselves though and went home about 12pm as we were doing a day tour leaving at 7am the followi...

We arrived in Auckland about 4pm, we got a special offer with Base backpackers where we paid an extra $3 and received a free meal, drink, 1hr spa and 1hr internet and as we were booked in the sanctuary we also got free champagne between 9pm and 930pm!! After putting our bags down me, Kat and Sarah went to the spa. It was really cool as it was on the roof we had great views of the city. after the spa we went and had our free dinner then went to the bar. We played...

Had to meet the bus at 6am for our day trip to Milford Sound. The first part of the journey was really quiet as most people were sleeping. We stopped at Te Ano about 9am to pick some more people up and have breakfast. It was a bit disappointing as it was raining and really cloudy so the view weren't as good as they would have been on a really sunny day.The views that we could see were beautiful though, loads of waterfulls and mountains. We got on the cruise a...

When we arrived in Rotorua we stopped at Tamaki tours where they did a talk to introduce us to the Mauri culture as a lot of people in this area are Mauri. In the afternoon Me, Kat and Sarah went to the Polynesia spa. It was really nice, there was one big pool and about 4 smaller spa pools, it was very relaxing except the whole place stunk. Rotorua is in an area with a lot of geothermal activity so there are loads of natural hot springs and boiling mud. The sulp...