We have arrived in Auckland and we decided we will stay in the city for the first night then go and Stay with our Peter. so we booked into quite a nice hostel in the city centre, it was abit of a nightmare to find a parking space but we finally did, we left the car for about half an hour to check into our room, the parking after 6 is meant to be free so we didnt worry when we left the car. When we went back i thought we must be in the wrong street as there was a ...

Theres not alot here except loads of caves with amazing glow worms. we booked ourselves on the tour the next dayFirst thing we had to do was have some absailing training that took about 5 minutes! then we had to absail down 30 metres into the cave. I have done a 15000ft skydive but i was still scared when i had to take the first step off the ledge and trust the harness but when i started to lower myself i got right into it and started tryin push myself off the wa...

Ok so we went to Matamata a one horse town in the middle of nowhere and their claim to fame was that Peter Jackson chose a farm there to film the Hobbit scenes in The Lord of the Rings. So we booked ourselves on the tour and got bussed out to the farm, where the hobbit holes still are. the hobbit holes are good but it does take some imagination to picture what it looked like in the film becasue most of the set was ripped down after filming.New Zealand took this f...

this town really smelt because it is near a sulphur spring, so nowand again you get a really strong smell of eggs which is nice. i did zorbing here. Zorbing- is when you get in a massive hamster ball and get pushed sown a hill. it sounded good to me, when i got there though i booked myself on the extreme one which goes down a zig zag track so you get thrown around loads and they also pour loads of water in before they push you down. now i know what it would ...

First thing we had to do here is drive back to the other hostel (2 hours there and back) because i left my mobile there doh!Lake Taupo is so beautiful, really nice places to stay and the lake is massive it even has a tide so looks like the sea and theres loads of things to do here.our room is in a really nice house which we share with 2 other couples. When we got here we went to talk to the tourist information place becauese i wanted to know how much it was to do...