After the caves we went to a so called 'Authentically' traditional Maori night. I was a little dissapointed with the venue, I expected a traditional Maori meeting house, but instead it looked a bit like a village hall. It was good to see Maori's performing the Hakka and they taught the boys in our group the Hakka too which was hilarious. For the girls, we learnt how to do the Poi, which is basically stones in a bag and you dance with them...weird!! After all thi...

Today I did a tour of Waitomo Caves called 'Spellbound' with two sweet Welsh girls from my bus. We went to 2 caves and saw loads of Glow worms, they lit up the caves like fairy lights. One of these caves we went to was where they filmed part of a Planet Earth episode. It was beautiful.

This morning we went to Raglan, a cute town, famous for its surfing so it had a real surfy feel about it. Its a pretty, arty place...really liked it and could definately of stayed longer. The idea of the hop on hop off bus is that you can stay in places longer if you like them, but I had booked a flight at the end of the trip which means I can't really hop off. I was warming to my bus driver though, so it was nice to stay with him. I just chilled out on the be...

I was picked up early this morning from my Auckland hostel. Luckily the girl I was sharing a room with in my hostel was on the tour with me for the first few days. Our driver is called 'Salty' a pretty crazy driver, but I hear all the drivers are a bit like that in NZ, so best thing to do is sit back and relax. 1st stop Hahei on the Coromandel Penninsula. It was a windy road to here, with a scenic lookout stop over the beautiful Mercury Bay. Here we went Kayak...

After a rough flight from Cairns, I had a brief overnight stop in Auckland tonight ready for my next adventure around new Zealand. This time with a company called Stray (a hop-on hop-off bus tour). I didn't really explore any of Aucland which is a shame because it was quite late by the time I got there and I didn't fancy venturing our alone. There was a Swiss girl in my dorm who was lovely.