After a brief one night stop off in Waitomo on the 17th, where we did nothing at all as we'd been with the girls, it was back on the road again and off to Taupo. Just before we got into the main town, we stopped off at The Craters Of The Moon. Would love to say how spectacular and amazing this place was, but in reality it was just a small thermal park of which we had seen far better ones in Rotorua, and the 45 minute walk around the site seemed fairly uninspirin...

We have arrived back at the smelly place! On the way into the town we stopped at the zorb and put on very sexy outfits before being driven to the top of a hill and diving into a huge rubber ball filled with warm water and proceeding to roll down the hill inside it!! It doesn't sound like much but it was the best laugh! So much so we did it again! Picture being inside a giant washing machine! Brilliant! We got to town around lunch time and after checking into th...

Today we started our proper Kiwi Experience bus trip heading from Auckland to Whitianga. We left the hostel at around 8am and headed around the coast to the Commandel Province stopping for lunch in Thames before crossing some amazing mountains to a place called Cathedral Cove. Our bus driver let us out to walk to the cove which was supposed to take 45 minutes but either they can't count or they were estimating it for people crawling! en route to the cove we sto...

Once again we find ourselves back in Auckland for the night as we have just finished our "top bit" tour of the North Island. We left for Pahia nice and early on Saturday morning with the bus picking us up at 7:15am! After struggling out of bed we were soon on our way over the harbour bridge and travelling on towards the Bay of Islands, our destination for the next three nights. After a couple of hours on the bus we stopped off in a little town called ...

Well, we are back in Auckland after our mini tour with the girls before we head further up north for the first leg of our Kiwi Experience. We spent the few days in Auckland taking in the sights and sounds of New Zealand's biggest city. We spent much of the first day just looking around the city, popping into the shops and getting to know where things were. This included picking up about 20 different maps and money off vouchers for various things, about 19 of whi...