So, me and Liz had booked onto the East as tour which is part of kiwi experience - we was meant to meet the bus at 7.20 and leave 7.30 outside our hostel - not sure why (after last time) but we left Rich to set the alarm, at 7.13 Dave woke me up to say the alarm hadn't gone off and we needed to get up - NOW! Me and Liz rushed to get ready as Dave and Rich ran down to the van to ask them to wait, me and Liz was both still asleep when we got into the van! We stoppe...

So after Waitomo and the angora rabbit shearing! (bizarre) we made our way to Taupo, the day before on the bus they had asked anyone who wanted to do a sky dive to write their names down so they would book them on - in our kiwi book it said how we have this walk at Haku falls before arriving in Taupo - I wasn't looking forward to this too much but when we pulled up and I saw the 'FREEFALL, sky diving' van I thought that maybe the walk wouldn't be so bad! Turned o...

So after Rotorua we headed to Waitomo, which is well known for its caves and glow worms.We booked the 3 hour labyrinth tour and was dropped off before making our way to our hostel - me and Dave used the same bikini's and shorts from hydro-zorbing earlier so those clothes weren't exactly the most comfortable but....we then had to put on a two piece wet suit and booties which not only were wet and cold but smelt off wee (may have been from the damp water in the cav...

Early morning on the first day of our tour the four of us caught the kiwi bus for our first stop Mercury Bay, on route we stopped at the Kiwi office to sort out paperwork so Rich took the opportunity to do his early morning Mangina! ha then off for our first walk on route (looking through our itinerary there seems to be alot of these along the way), this one took us to Cathedral Cove - which is along the beach to where a cove has been eroded into the rocks - the ...

HELLO FROM NEW ZEALAND! We have now arrived!! Our first day we got set up in our hostel and checked what was around (Dave found there was a Nandos and Dominoes so he was ok!) the following day we checked ourselves onto a free tour which turned out to be fab, well once we'd actually got ourselves on there - our hostel told us the wrong time so we missed the bus but we headed up the road to the first stop and found them there. They were at the Auckland Sky Tower...