Wellington, New Zealand

Whakappa Village. NZ

We didn't have to be on the coach til 9am this morning so it wasn't too painful getting up. We went around lake Taupo to a remote part of the north island. We stayed in Blue duck Lodge. It's named after the rare blue ducks that live around there. To get to the accommodation we had to turn off the main road then when it looks like your in the middle of nowhere you take a turn for 40km into the national park. The lodge is a working station with cows and sheep and...

Its my mums birthday! Happy birthday mum! We slept surprisingly well considering we were sharing a room with so many people. We had to fold the sleeping bags, stack our mattress and head for breakfast in the hall. It was eggy bread or French toast depends how posh you want to sound. Today me and Lee (I just can't bring myself to write Lee and I) so anyway we're heading to Rotorua to do white water rafting down a 7m waterfall. After breakfast we were on the bus an...

We weren't leaving until 8am so we had little lie in then we jumped on the bus and headed to Waitomo. The bus pulled into the car park to the Waitomo cave tours and we all jumped off to pay. It was $175pp to abseil into a cave, crawl through tunnels, see loads of glow worms and climb back out. We booked on! Once paid they put us on a minibus and took us 10mins away from the main office to the caves. Whilst driving through the town the tour guide told us the popul...